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Captain Future

Pulp hero turned globally dubbed anime adventurer.

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Captain Future is a science‑fiction character whose stories were developed between 1940 and 1951 and later adapted into a 1978–79 Japanese anime by Toei Animation.[1][2]

Making and release

The series began when scientist Roger Newton, his wife Elaine, and colleague Simon Wright left Earth for a Moon laboratory to escape the criminal Victor Corvo.[3] In the late 1980s, Harmony Gold dubbed the first four‑part story as an edited TV movie titled "Captain Future".[4] A Japanese Blu‑ray box was released in September 2016 (Box 1) and November 2016 (Box 2), and a German "Limited Collectors Edition" Blu‑ray box followed in December 2016.[5] The editors Mort Weisinger and Leo Margulies, who worked for Better Publications, are the actual creators of the character; Edmond Hamilton, despite writing the majority of the stories, did not create him.[6]

Toei Animation, a Japanese company, produced a 53-episode anime television series in 1978, which was the year after Hamilton died; this series adapted 13 of the original stories.[7] ZIV International released an English-dubbed video version of the second story arc's four episodes in the early 1980s, calling it "The Adventures of Captain Future".[4] In February 2025, Toei Animation granted permission to French artist Alexis Tallone and author Sylvian Runberg to produce a comic adaptation of the first Captain Future story.[8][9]

What the cited sources add

The futuremania.de account notes that the anime's Comet has three engine groups and a photon drive, unlike the original novel's single rocket nozzle.[10] According to the futuremania.de comparison, the anime adds a scene where Captain Future shoots a cigar from Daumer's mouth, which does not appear in the novel.[11] The belial.fr site describes the Captain Future series as laying the foundations for a popular sub‑culture that later influenced Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Trek.[1]

References

  1. https://www.belial.fr/cycle/capitaine-futur. facts only, no text reused. belial.fr
  2. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hamilton, "An Inside Look at Captain Future", pulpgen.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Harmony Gold, "Captain Future - Special Agents and Alien Cut-Throats", VHS cassette, runtime approx. 94 min. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "CF BluRay Box Release Dates", The Fandom Post; "Captain Future Komplettbox BD", Universum Film. Retrieved February, 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "CF expert Robert Weinberg's site", robertweinberg.net, 2023-05-18; Will Murray, "The Once and Future Captain", Starlog 115, Feb. 1987; Allan Steele, The Death of Captain Future (with introduction and author's note) in The Space Opera Renaissance, ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, 2006, ; Sam Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm, 1958, p. 219. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Futuremania: Der Animé im Vergleich zur Romanvorlage", futuremania.de; See also Clements, Jonathan & McCarthy, Helen, „The Animé Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition“ (2010), page 86, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Captain Future" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hero of the 80s - Captain Future is Flying Again (German). Rheinische Post, February 25, 2025. Retrieved February 27, 2025.]; Captain Future: The Eternal Ruler - Back from the Future (Review) (German). Teilzeithelden, May 6, 2025. Retrieved October 19, 2025.] (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Hero of the 80s - Captain Future is Flying Again (German). Rheinische Post, February 25, 2025. Retrieved February 27, 2025.]. facts only, no text reused. rp-online.de
  10. "Die COMET, Technik (Animé-COMET)", futuremania.de, 2023-04-23. facts only, no text reused. futuremania.de
  11. "Futuremania: Der Animé im Vergleich zur Romanvorlage", futuremania.de. facts only, no text reused. futuremania.de

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Captain Future (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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