Editing Edmond Hamilton

{{Short description|American science fiction writer (1904–1977)}}
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[[File:Weird Tales August 1926.jpg|thumb|The August 1926 ''Weird Tales'' featured Hamilton's first published story.]]
[[File:Weird Tales February 1929.jpg|thumb|"The Star-Stealers" was first published in the February 1929 issue of ''[[Weird Tales]]''.]]
[[File:Amazing stories 194709.jpg|thumb|The first "Star Kings" story was cover-featured on the September 1947 issue of ''[[Amazing Stories]]''.]]
[[File:Fantastic adventures 194208.jpg|thumb|Hamilton's novella ''The Daughter of Thor'' was the cover story for the August 1942 issue of ''[[Fantastic Adventures]]''.]]
[[File:Universe science fiction 195409 n7.jpg|thumb|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.]]
[[File:Imagination 195612.jpg|thumb|Hamilton's novella ''Last Call for Doomsday!'', written for ''Imagination'' under the [[Pen name#Collective names|house name]] "S. M. Tenneshaw", has never been included in an authorized Hamilton collection.]]
[[File:Imagination 195712.jpg|thumb|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.]]

'''Edmond Moore Hamilton''' (October 21, 1904 – February 1, 1977)<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JYDP-XWR|title= FamilySearch, Edmond Hamilton, February 1977|date= n.d.|publisher= United States Social Security Death Index|access-date= March 13, 2013}}</ref> was an American writer of [[science fiction]] during the mid-twentieth century.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/edmond_hamilton/|title= Edmond Hamilton|first= Larry|last= Estep|date= n.d.|publisher= Pulpgen.com|quote= The peak of Hamilton's popularity probably came in the 1920s and 1930s where he proved as popular with the readers of ''Weird Tales'' as such prominent authors as Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.|access-date= September 22, 2006|archive-date= September 24, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924083152/http://www.pulpgen.com/pulp/edmond_hamilton/|url-status= dead}}</ref> He is known for writing most of the [[Captain Future]] stories. 

==Early life==
Born in [[Youngstown, Ohio]], he was raised there and in nearby [[New Castle, Pennsylvania]]. Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and entered [[Westminster College (Pennsylvania)|Westminster College]] in [[New Wilmington, Pennsylvania]] at the age of 14, but dropped out at 17.

==Writing career==
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]]''.<ref name=isfdb/> 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]]. ''Weird Tales'' would publish 79 works of fiction by Hamilton from 1926 to 1948, making him one of the magazine's most prolific contributors. Hamilton became a friend and associate of several ''Weird Tales'' veterans, including [[E. Hoffmann Price]] and [[Otis Adelbert Kline]]; most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close contemporary [[Jack Williamson]], as Williamson records in his 1984 autobiography ''Wonder's Child.'' In the late 1930s ''Weird Tales'' printed several striking fantasy tales by Hamilton, most notably "He That Hath Wings" (July 1938), one of his most popular and frequently-reprinted pieces. 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'' (1936). The book comprises the following stories: "The Horror on the Asteroid", "The Accursed Galaxy", "The Man Who Saw Everything" ("The Man With the X-Ray Eyes"), "The Earth-Brain", "The Monster-God of Mamurth", and "[[The Man Who Evolved]]".

Through the late 1920s and early 1930s Hamilton wrote for all of the science fiction [[pulp magazine]]s then publishing, and contributed [[Horror fiction|horror]] and [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] stories to various other magazines as well. He was popular as an author of [[space opera]], a [[Genre#Subgenre|subgenre]] he created along with [[E. E. Smith]], and which earned him nicknames like “The World Wrecker”.<ref>[https://www.tor.com/2022/03/02/a-man-out-of-time-the-star-kings-by-edmond-hamilton/ A Man Out of Time: The Star Kings by Edmond Hamilton]</ref> His story "The Island of Unreason" (''[[Wonder Stories]]'', May 1933) won the first Jules Verne Prize as the best science fiction story of the year (this was the first science fiction prize awarded by the votes of fans, a precursor of the later [[Hugo Award]]s). In the later 1930s, in response to the economic strictures of the [[Great Depression]], he also wrote detective and crime stories. Always prolific in stereotypical pulp magazine fashion, 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 Hamilton stories, one under his name and two under pseudonyms. In the 1940s, Hamilton was the primary force behind the ''[[Captain Future]]'' franchise,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.robertweinberg.net/captainfuture.htm|title= Captain Future|first= Robert|last= Weinberg|date= n.d.|publisher= RobertWeinberg.net|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160314180925/http://www.robertweinberg.net/captainfuture.htm|archive-date= March 14, 2016|url-status= live|quote= Edmond Hamilton took [Mort] Weisinger's so-so idea about 'Mr. Future' and turned the concept into 'Captain Future'.}}</ref> a science fiction pulp designed for juvenile readers that won him many fans, but diminished his reputation in later years when science fiction moved away from space opera. 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 Hamilton began writing for [[DC Comics]],<ref name="GCD">{{Grand Comics Database search|type=credit|search= Edmond+Hamilton|title= Edmond Hamilton}}</ref> specializing in stories for their characters [[Superman]] and [[Batman]]. His first comics story was "Bandits in Toyland" in ''[[Batman (comic book)|Batman]]'' #11 (June–July 1942).<ref name="GCD" /> He wrote the short-lived science fiction series [[Chris KL-99]] in ''[[Strange Adventures]]'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Irvine |first= Alex |author-link=Alex Irvine |editor-last=Dolan |editor-first=Hannah |chapter= 1950s |title = DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[DK (publisher)|Dorling Kindersley]]|date=2010|location= London |isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9|page= 64|quote = [''Strange Adventures''] issue #1 also saw the first appearance of...Chris KL-99, from legendary sci-fi author Edmond Hamilton and artist Howard Sherman.}} [https://archive.org/details/dccomicsyearbyye0000unse American edition] {{registration required}} at the Internet Archive.</ref> loosely based on Captain Future. He and artist [[Sheldon Moldoff]] created [[Batwoman (Kathy Kane)|Batwoman]] in ''[[Detective Comics]]'' #233 (July 1956).<ref>Irvine "1950s" in Dolan, p. 80: "In the story 'The Batwoman' by writer Edmond Hamilton and penciler Sheldon Moldoff (as Bob Kane), Bruce Wayne took notice of a young admirer who...was fighting crime while wearing a bat-costume very similar to the one the Dark Knight wore."</ref> Hamilton co-created [[Space Ranger]] in ''[[Showcase (comics)|Showcase]]'' #15 (July–Aug. 1958) with [[Gardner Fox]] and [[Bob Brown (comics)|Bob Brown]].<ref>Irvine "1950s" in Dolan, p. 91: "Space Ranger...debuted in ''Showcase'' #15 in stories by writer Edmond Hamilton and artist Bob Brown."</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/spranger.htm |title=Space Ranger |first=Don |last=Markstein |year=2008 |publisher=[[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240526075857/https://www.webcitation.org/6BWAFY6gj?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/spranger.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |url-status=dead|access-date=October 18, 2012 |quote=Editor Jack Schiff took charge of the character, and handed him over to writers Edmond Hamilton and Gardner Fox for development. Bob Brown illustrated their script.}}</ref> He also wrote the well-regarded three-part story "The Last Days of Superman" in ''Superman'' #156 (Oct 1962).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eury |first1=Michael |title=The Krypton Companion |date=2006 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=9781893905610 |page=26}}</ref> Hamilton was also among the first regular writers for ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', where he created [[Timber Wolf (character)|Timber Wolf]], the [[Time Trapper]], and the [[Legion of Substitute Heroes]], among other characters.<ref>McAvennie, Michael "1960s" in Dolan, p. 110: "Writer Edmond Hamilton and artist John Forte made the first-ever reference to the nefarious Time Trapper."</ref><ref>McAvennie "1960s" in Dolan, p. 113: "Writer Edmond Hamilton and artist John Forte introduced them to Karth Arn, a super-strong acrobat calling himself 'Lone Wolf'...The hero soon adopted the moniker of Timber Wolf."</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The DC comics encyclopedia: the definitive guide to the characters of the DC universe |date=2016 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-5357-0 |editor-last=Cowsill |editor-first=Alan |edition=First American |location=New York, New York |editor-last2=Irvine |editor-first2=Alexander |editor-last3=Korté |editor-first3=Steve |editor-last4=Manning |editor-first4=Matthew K. |editor-last5=Wiacek |editor-first5=Stephen |editor-last6=Wilson |editor-first6=Sven |editor-last7=Beatty |editor-first7=Scott |editor-last8=Greenberger |editor-first8=Robert |editor-last9=Wallace |editor-first9=Daniel}}</ref> "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 [[Dick Grayson|Robin]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Batman Slaps Robin – The Origin of the Panel |url=https://www.cbr.com/batman-slaps-robin-the-origin-of-the-panel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910164903/http://www.cbr.com/batman-slaps-robin-the-origin-of-the-panel/ |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |website=[[Comic Book Resources]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Hamilton retired from comics with the publication of "The Cape and Cowl Crooks" in ''World's Finest Comics'' #159 (August 1966).<ref name="GCD" />

In 1969, the [[Macfadden Communications Group|Macfadden/Bartell Corporation]] published a collection of short science fiction stories "Alien Earth and Other Stories" (520-00219-075), where Hamilton's 1949 "Alien Earth" was featured along with novelettes by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke and others.

==Marriage and collaboration==
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.  They met once again at the [[Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel]], where she and [[Ray Bradbury]] invited him to the coast in 1946.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/LunaMonthly60197512/page/n11/mode/2up |title=Luna Monthly #60 [1975-12] |date=December 1975 |page=12}}</ref> On December 31, 1946, Hamilton married her in [[San Gabriel, California]], and moved with her to [[Kinsman, Ohio]]. Afterward he would produce some of his best work including his novels ''The Star of Life'' (1947), ''The Valley of Creation'' (1948), ''City at World's End'' (1951)<ref name=isfdb/> and ''[[The Haunted Stars]]'' (1960). 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?" (''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', December 1952), his single most frequently-reprinted and anthologized work.

Though Hamilton and Leigh Brackett worked side by side for a quarter-century, they rarely shared the task of authorship; their single formal collaboration, ''Stark and the Star Kings'', originally intended for [[Harlan Ellison]]'s ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]'', would not appear in print until 2005. It has been speculated{{by whom|date=January 2024}} that when Brackett temporarily abandoned science fiction for screenwriting in the early 1960s, Hamilton did an uncredited revision and expansion of two early Brackett stories, "Black Amazon of Mars" and "Queen of the Martian Catacombs"&nbsp;— revised texts were published as the novellas ''[[People of the Talisman]]'' and ''[[The Secret of Sinharat]]'' (1964).

Hamilton died in February 1977 in [[Lancaster, California]], of complications following kidney surgery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-hamilton-edmond/138765791/ |title=Deaths: Hamilton, Edmond |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=19 |date=1977-02-02 |access-date=2024-01-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the year before his death, [[Toei Animation]] had launched production of an [[anime]] adaptation of his [[Captain Future]] novels and [[Tsuburaya Productions]] adapted ''[[Star Wolf (TV series)|Star Wolf]]'' into a [[tokusatsu]] series; both series were aired on Japanese television in 1978. 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.

Joint interviews of Brackett and Hamilton by Dave Truesdale were published in ''Tangent'' (Summer 1976),<ref name=truesdale/> and by [[Darrell Schweitzer]] in ''Amazing Stories'' (January 1978),<ref name=isfdb/>&nbsp;— the latter published several months after Hamilton's death, but conducted "much earlier", Truesdale attributes to Schweitzer.<ref name=truesdale />

==Edmond Hamilton / Leigh Brackett Day==
On July 18, 2009, Kinsman, Ohio, "celebrat[ed] Edmond Hamilton Day, honoring 'The Dean of Science Fiction' and Kinsman resident".<ref>{{cite magazine|url= http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/07/edmond-hamilton-day.html|title= Edmond Hamilton Day|date= July 5, 2009|magazine= [[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160507040029/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/07/edmond-hamilton-day.html|archive-date= May 7, 2016|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all}}</ref>

==Selected works==
===''Captain Future''===
{{Main|Captain Future}}
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# ''Captain Future and the Space Emperor'' (1940)
# ''Calling Captain Future'' (1940)
# ''Captain Future's Challenge'' (1940)
# ''The Triumph of Captain Future'' (1940), reprinted as ''Galaxy Mission''
# ''Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones'' (1941)
# ''Star Trail to Glory'' (1941)
# ''The Magician of Mars'' (1941)
# ''The Lost World of Time'' (1941)
# ''Quest Beyond the Stars'' (1942)
# ''Outlaws of the Moon'' (1942)
# ''The Comet Kings'' (1942)
# ''Planets in Peril'' (1942)
# ''The Face of the Deep'' (1943)
# ''Worlds to Come'' (1943)
# ''Star of Dread'' (1943)
# ''Magic Moon'' (1944)
# ''The Tenth Planet'' (1969)
# ''Red Sun of Danger'' (1945), reprinted as ''Danger Planet''
# ''Outlaw World'' (1946)
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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".

===''Interstellar Patrol''===
A space opera sequence based on the seminal "Crashing Suns". With the exception of "The Sun People", the stories were assembled as ''Crashing Suns'' in 1965.
# "Crashing Suns" (1928)
# ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73442 The Star-Stealers]" (1929)
# ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73508 Within the Nebula]'' (1929)
# ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74020 Outside the Universe]'' (1929)
# ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73855 The Comet-Drivers]'' (1930)
# "The Sun People" (1930)
# "The Cosmic Cloud" (1930)

===''The Star Kings''===
A space opera sequence: the first, ''The Star Kings'', is a reworking of ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]'' while ''Return to the Stars'' is a [[fix-up]] of four stories: "Kingdoms of the Stars", "The Shores of Infinity", "The Broken Stars" and "The Horror from the Magellanic". A crossover between this universe and Brackett's, "Stark and the Star Kings", was released in 2005, having originally been submitted to ''[[The Last Dangerous Visions]]''. Two further stories in the same universe, "The Star Hunter" (1958) and "The Tattooed Man" (1957), were reissued in 2014 as ''The Last of the Star Kings''.

#''The Star Kings'' (1949), originally published in Amazing Stories in 1947, and as a paperback in 1950 under the title ''Beyond the Moon''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Awj6AF-BZTcC&dq=Science+fiction+began+to+emerge+in+1950+Edmond+Hamiltons+Beyond+the+Moon&pg=PA36 The History of the Science-fiction Magazine]</ref>
#''Return to the Stars'' (1968)
#"Stark and the Star Kings" (2005)
#''The Last of the Star Kings'' (2014)

===''Starwolf''===
{{Main|Starwolf (novel series)}}
Interstellar adventure with mercenary Morgan Chane.
# ''The Weapon from Beyond'' (1967)
# ''The Closed Worlds'' (1968)
# ''World of the Starwolves'' (1968)

===Other novels===
{| class="sortable"
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! title !! year !! comment
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| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73504 The abysmal invaders]'' || 1929 ||
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| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73611 The life-masters]'' || 1929 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73428 The sea horror]'' || 1929 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74086 The invisible master]'' || 1930 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74075 The space visitors]'' || 1930 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74119 Evans of the Earth Guard]'' || 1930 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28062 The Man Who Saw the Future]'' || 1930 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73857 World atavism]'' || 1930 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28832 The Sargasso of Space]'' || 1931 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32847 The Door into Infinity]'' || 1936 ||
|-
| ''The Fire Princess'' || 1938 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32317 The World with a Thousand Moons]'' || 1942 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69357 Forgotten world]'' || 1945 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69279 Come home from Earth]'' || 1946 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68669 Proxy Planeteers]'' || 1947 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69665 The knowledge machine]'' || 1948 ||
|-
| ''A Yank at Valhalla'' || 1950 ||
|-
| ''The Monsters of Juntonheim'' || - || reprint of ''A Yank at Valhalla''
|-
| ''Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown'' || 1950 ||
|-
| ''The Prisoner of Mars'' || - || reprint of ''Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown''
|-
| ''City at World's End'' || 1951 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65817 Last Call for Doomsday!]'' || 1956 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65813 Citadel of the Star Lords]'' || 1956 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32486 The Legion of Lazarus]'' || 1956 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65483 The Sinister Invasion]'' || 1957 ||
|-
| ''The Sun Smasher'' || 1959 ||
|-
| ''Starman Come Home'' || - || reprint of ''The Sun Smasher''
|-
| ''The Star of Life'' || 1959 ||
|-
| ''The Man Who Missed the Moon''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6559852-the-star-of-life|title=The Star of Life}}</ref> || - || reprint of ''The Star of Life''
|-
| ''[[The Haunted Stars]]'' || 1960 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66843 Battle for the Stars]'' || 1961 ||
|-
| ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24870 The Stars, My Brothers]'' || 1962 ||
|-
| ''The Valley of Creation'' || 1948 ||
|-
| ''Fugitive of the Stars'' || 1965 ||
|-
| ''Doomstar'' || 1966 ||
|-
| ''The Lake of Life'' || 1978 ||
|-
| {{cite book <!--|author=Hamilton, Edmond |author-mask=1--> |title=The Universe Wreckers |location= |publisher=Armchair Fiction |year=2015 <!--|isbn=978-1-61287-270-4-->}} || 2015 ||
|}

===Collections===
* ''The Horror on the Asteroid and Other Tales of Planetary Horror'' (1936)
* ''Murder in the Clinic'' (1946)
* ''What's It Like Out There? and Other Stories'' (1974)
* ''[[The Best of Edmond Hamilton]]'' ([[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] Science Fiction Book Club, April 1977), edited and introduced by Leigh Brackett<ref name=isfdb/>
* ''Kaldar: World of Antares'' (1998)
* ''The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Terror'' (2000)
* ''Stark and the Star Kings'' (2005), Leigh Brackett and Hamilton
* ''Two Worlds of Edmond Hamilton'' (2008)
* ''The Sargasso of Space and Two Others'' (2009)
* ''[[Twilight of the Gods (Hamilton collection)|Twilight of the Gods]]'' (2020)
* ''[[The Avenger from Atlantis (collection)|The Avenger from Atlantis]]'' (2021)

[[File:Wonder stories 193112.jpg|thumb|[[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]]

===Collected works===
In 2009, Haffner Press released the first two books in a program to collect all of Hamilton's prose work. A volume (the first of six) collecting the first four Captain Future novels also appeared at the same time. Early in 2010, additional volumes were announced.
* ''The Metal Giants and Others, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One'' {{ISBN|978-1893887312}} (2009)
* ''The Star-Stealers: The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two'' {{ISBN|978-1893887336}} (2009)
* ''The Universe Wreckers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Three'' {{ISBN|978-1893887411}} (2010)
* ''The Reign of the Robots, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Four'' {{ISBN|978-1893887657}} (2013)
* ''The Six Sleepers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Five'' {{ISBN|978-1-893887-72-5}}
* ''The Collected Captain Future, Volume One'' {{ISBN|978-1893887350}} (2009)
* ''The Collected Captain Future, Volume Two'' {{ISBN|978-1893887404}} (2010)
* ''The Collected Captain Future, Volume Three'' {{ISBN|978-1893887749}} (2014)

===Comic books===
====DC Comics====
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* ''[[Action Comics]]'' #119, 135, 137–138, 147–148, 151, 167, 186, 189, 191, 223, 229, 234, 239, 293–294, 300–301, 303, 309, 314, 318–319, 321, 327, 329–330, 336, 338–339 (1948–1966)
* ''[[Adventure Comics]]'' #144–146, 149–150, 156, 161, 167, 172, 240 ([[Superboy (Kal-El)|Superboy]]); #306–319, 321–322, 324–325, 327, 332, 334–337, 339, 341–345 ([[Legion of Super-Heroes (1958 team)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]) (1949–1966)
* ''[[Batman (comic book)|Batman]]'' #11, 38, 76–78, 83, 85–86, 88, 91, 93–95, 98–99, 101, 104, 109–112 (1942–1957)
* ''[[Detective Comics]]'' #91, 124, 127, 133, 135, 158, 165, 198, 201, 203, 211, 215–217, 225–226, 231, 233–234, 241, 243, 245, 251 (1944–1958)
* ''[[Green Lantern (comic book)|Green Lantern]]'' #18 (1945)
* ''[[Mystery in Space]]'' #2, 4, 30, 34–35, 37–38 (1951–1957)
* ''[[Showcase (comics)|Showcase]]'' #15–16 ([[Space Ranger]]) (1958)
* ''[[Strange Adventures]]'' #1–5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15–16, 55–56, 63, 67, 69, 72–75, 77, 79 (1950–1957)
* ''[[Superboy (comic book)|Superboy]]'' #1, 8–9, 18, 21–22, 24–25, 27, 103–104, 106, 119–120, 123 (1949–1965)
* ''[[Superman (comic book)|Superman]]'' #50, 52, 57, 63–64, 68, 70–72, 74–76, 78–81, 90, 102, 105–106, 109, 119, 148, 153–159, 161, 163–164, 166–168, 171–172, 174–175, 181 (1948–1965)
* ''[[Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane]]'' #15, 21, 54, 56–57 (1960–1965)
* ''[[Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen]]'' #64, 66–67, 69, 71, 85 (1962–1965)
* ''[[World's Finest Comics]]'' #34–35, 37–39, 41, 46, 57, 62–63, 73, 76–82, 84–86, 88–92, 94, 96, 141–153, 155–159 (1948–1966)
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==References==
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[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?249 "Edmond Hamilton – Summary Bibliography"]. [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database|ISFDB]]. Retrieved July 10, 2014.</ref>
<ref name=truesdale>{{cite web|url= http://www.tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/1270-classic-leigh-brackett-a-edmond-hamilton-interview|title= Tangent Online Presents: An Interview with Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton|first= Dave|last= Truesdale|date= December 12, 2009|publisher= Tangent Online|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160403121104/http://tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/1270-classic-leigh-brackett-a-edmond-hamilton-interview|archive-date= April 3, 2016|url-status= live|access-date= July 11, 2014}} Reprint of April 1976 interview by Dave Truesdale and Paul McGuire III (''Tangent'', Summer 1976); with Introduction by Truesdale (2009), "Ed and Leigh" appreciation by [[James E. Gunn (writer)|James Gunn]] (1994), "Ed and Leigh" by [[Jack Williamson]] (1994), Afterword by Truesdale (2009).</ref>}}

==Sources==
* [[Sam Moskowitz|Moskowitz, Sam]] (1966). ''Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction''. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co. {{OCLC|633053738}}.
** Reprint (1973). Westport, CT: [[Hyperion Press]]. {{ISBN|9780883551295}}. {{OCLC|213785300}}.
* Gombert, Richard W. (2009). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718052252/http://www.wildsidebooks.com/World-Wrecker-An-Annotated-Bibliography-of-Edmond-Hamilton-by-Richard-W-Gombert-40trade-pb41_p_3831.html ''World Wrecker: An Annotated Bibliography of Edmond Hamilton'']. [[Borgo Press]] imprint of Rockville, MD: Wildside. {{ISBN|9781434457264}}. {{OCLC|558840699}}.

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* [http://www.haffnerpress.com/series/the-collected-edmond-hamilton The Collected Edmond Hamilton] (series) at Haffner Press

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