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==Story overview== Initially, the story was set in 1990. Hamilton quickly avoided exact dates except for past events, such as the voyages of the astronauts who first landed on most of the other planets of the Solar System. In later stories, if the date was asked or revealed, it was done so discreetly. The series begins when genius scientist Roger Newton, his wife Elaine, and his fellow scientist Simon Wright leave planet Earth to do research in an isolated laboratory on the [[Moon]], and to escape the predations of Victor Corvo (originally: Victor Kaslan<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hamilton|first1=Edmond|title=An Inside Look at Captain Future|url=http://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/captain_future/inside_cf.html|website=pulpgen.com|publisher=Estep, Larry|access-date=2014-07-28|archive-date=2020-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125010303/https://pulpgen.com/pulp/captain_future/inside_cf.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>), a criminal politician who wished to use Newton's inventions for his own gain. Simon's body is old and diseased and Roger enables him to continue doing research by transplanting his healthy brain into an artificial case (originally immobile—carried around by Grag—later equipped with lifter units). Working together, the two scientists create an intelligent [[robot]] called Grag, and an [[Android (robot)|android]] with shape-shifting abilities called Otho. One day, Corvo arrives on the Moon and murders the Newtons; but before he can reap the fruits of his atrocity, Corvo and his killers are in turn slain by Grag and Otho. The deaths of the Newtons leave their son, Curtis, to be raised by the unlikely trio of Otho, Grag, and Simon Wright. Under their tutelage, Curtis grows up to be a brilliant scientist and as strong and fast as any champion athlete. He also grows up with a strong sense of responsibility and hopes to use his scientific skills to help people. With that goal in his mind, he calls himself ''Captain Future''; Simon, Otho and Grag are referred to as the ''Futuremen'' in subsequent stories. Other recurring characters in the series are the old space marshal Ezra Gurney, the beautiful Planet Patrol agent Joan Randall (who provides a [[love interest]] for Curtis), and James Carthew, President of the Solar System whose office is in [[New York City]] and who calls upon Future in extreme need. Captain Future faces many enemies in his career but his [[archenemy]] is Ul Quorn, who is the only recurring [[villain]] in the series and appears in two different stories. He is part [[Martian]] - therefore called the ''Magician of Mars'' - but also the son of Victor Corvo, who murdered the Newtons. Quorn is a scientist whose abilities rival those of Captain Future.
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