12 Facts About Edmond Hamilton

Edmond Moore Hamilton was an American writer of science fiction during the mid-twentieth century.

Edmond Hamilton is known for writing most of the Captain Future stories.

Edmond Hamilton wrote one of the first hardcover compilations of what would eventually come to be known as the science fiction genre, The Horror on The Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror.

Always prolific in stereotypical pulp magazine fashion, Edmond Hamilton sometimes saw four or five of his stories appear in a single month in these years; the February 1937 issue of the pulp Popular Detective featured three Edmond Hamilton stories, one under his name and two under pseudonyms.

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

In 1942 Edmond Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman.

Edmond Hamilton wrote the short-lived science fiction series Chris KL-99 in Strange Adventures, loosely based on Captain Future.

Edmond Hamilton was among the first regular writers for Legion of Super-Heroes, where he created Timber Wolf, the Time Trapper, and the Legion of Substitute Heroes, among other characters.

Edmond Hamilton met fellow science fiction author and screenwriter Leigh Brackett for the first time in the summer of 1940, but lost track of her during the war years.

On December 31,1946, Edmond Hamilton married her in San Gabriel, California, and moved with her to Kinsman, Ohio.

Edmond Hamilton died in February 1977 in Lancaster, California, of complications following kidney surgery.

On July 18,2009, Kinsman, Ohio, "celebrat[ed] Edmond Hamilton Day, honoring 'The Dean of Science Fiction' and Kinsman resident".