Edmond Hamilton

Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and entered Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania at the age of 14, but dropped out at 17.

Edmond Hamilton's career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of "The Monster God of Mamurth", a short story, in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales.

[3] Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Hamilton was associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of science fiction, perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel The Star Kings.

[6] He wrote the short-lived science fiction series Chris KL-99 in Strange Adventures,[7] loosely based on Captain Future.

[12][13][14] "The Clash of Cape and Cowl" in World's Finest Comics #153 (Nov. 1965) is the source of an Internet meme in which Batman slaps Robin.

In this more mature phase of his career, Hamilton moved away from the romantic and fantastic elements of his earlier fiction to create some unsentimental and realistic stories, such as "What's It Like Out There?"

The Captain Future adaptation was later exported to Europe, winning Hamilton a new and different fan base than the one that had acclaimed him half a century before, notably in France, Italy and Germany.

[19] Volumes #14 (Worlds to Come, 1943) and #17 (Days of Creation, 1944) were written by Joseph Samachson while #20, The Solar Invasion (1946) was by Manly Wade Wellman.

The main series was followed by a set of seven novelettes from 1950–1951: "The Return of Captain Future", "Children of the Sun", "The Harpers of Titan", "Pardon my Iron Nerves", "Moon of the Unforgotten", "Earthmen No More" and "Birthplace of Creation".

The August 1926 Weird Tales featured Hamilton's first published story.
"The Star-Stealers" was first published in the February 1929 issue of Weird Tales .
The first "Star Kings" story was cover-featured on the September 1947 issue of Amazing Stories .
Hamilton's novella The Daughter of Thor was the cover story for the August 1942 issue of Fantastic Adventures .
Hamilton's short novel Starman Come Home , the cover story in the September 1954 issue of Universe Science Fiction , was published in book form as The Sun Smasher five years later.
Hamilton's novella Last Call for Doomsday! , written for Imagination under the house name "S. M. Tenneshaw", has never been included in an authorized Hamilton collection.
Hamilton's short novel Fugitive from the Stars , cover-featured on the December 1958 issue of Imagination , was revised and published in an Ace Double in 1965.
Frank R. Paul 's cover for the December 1931 Wonder Stories , illustrating Hamilton's "The Reign of the Robots", was revived in 2013 for the cover of a volume of Hamilton's collected fiction