Read Captain Future 21 - The Return of Captain Future (January 1950) for Free Online Page B
Authors: Edmond Hamilton
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
between these two comrades of Captain Future is at bottom one of mischievous camaraderie. Each of them has saved the life of the other, more than once, in a tight spot.
Grag has been able to extricate his comrades from more than one perilous situation, through his great strength or through his special capabilities. One of the most valuable of the robot’s abilities is that he requires no breathing apparatus.
This has enabled him to go where neither Captain Future nor Otho could venture.
One time on Venus, when Curt and Otho and Simon Wright were all trapped in deadly peril, and could not be reached in any other way, Grag had walked days under an ocean, over the sea-floor, to reach the island where they were imprisoned. The robot was nearly lost many times in that perilous traverse, in constant danger of sinking into the ooze at the bottom of the sea, but he finally made it and brought help to his trapped comrades.
CAST ADRIFT
Another time, Grag was cast adrift in space when outlaws destroyed the little space-flier in which he was trying to reach his master on Saturn.
The great robot floated in space for many days, helpless and yet still living, needing no food or air, and finally was picked up by Curt Newton. Only the robot could have survived such an experience.
There is a great weld-scar down the back of Grag’s metal back, which tells a tale of an adventure that neither he nor his master will ever forget.
Captain Future had penetrated into one of the caverns of Uranus’ chasmed abysses, with Grag. The outlaws Curt was after blew up the tunnel entrance to that cave.
Captain Future would have been crushed beneath falling rock had not Grag, with his superhuman strength, held up the masses of falling stone until his master could jump clear. Grag himself was crushed beneath the rock, but Captain Future dug him out later, and the great weld-scar on his back is his memento of the adventure.
NO SENSE OF HUMOR
Grag has no sense of humor, as humans know it. He is puzzled sometimes by Curt’s jokes or the sly drollery of Otho. And that makes him uneasy, for the robot’s great ambition is to be human in everything.
His happiest moments have been when Captain Future has told him, “Grag, you are more human than most humans I know.”
Huge, incredible in strength, his great metal head towering high, his photoelectric eyes gleaming and his mighty metal arms raised, Grag is a terrible figure to evildoers when he goes into battle at the side of Captain Future and Otho.
And woe betide the person whom Grag suspects of trying to harm his master!
The Synthetic Man
From the Summer 1940 issue of Captain Future
OTHO, the android or synthetic man, is the only being of his kind in the Solar System. He is a man who was never born, but was artificially made!
In his natural form no one would mistake him for a human being. For the android’s arms and legs have a rubbery, boneless look. His artificially created flesh is pure white, not pink like human flesh. Otho’s dead-white face has no eyebrows or eyelashes, and there is no hair whatever upon his well-shaped white head. In a beltlike harness he carries his ray-pistols, make-up pouch and other belongings.
Otho’s face was carefully molded by his maker, Captain Future’s father, before the final “setting” of his flesh. The man-made features are regular, yet there is something unusual about Otho’s expression.
Like a cat’s eyes, his jade-green orbs can see in darkness. And there is a queer, alien humor, a gay, mocking deviltry in the cool way in which they stare.
THE WORLD’S FASTEST BEING
When Roger Newton and the Brain planned Otho’s Creation, they modeled the synthetic man after the human body, but simplified the pattern. Otho has no appendix or other such superfluous organs which in the human body are atrophied and useless. The android’s physical make-up is streamlined for efficiency. To more than one Earthman, he has seemed almost
Grag has been able to extricate his comrades from more than one perilous situation, through his great strength or through his special capabilities. One of the most valuable of the robot’s abilities is that he requires no breathing apparatus.
This has enabled him to go where neither Captain Future nor Otho could venture.
One time on Venus, when Curt and Otho and Simon Wright were all trapped in deadly peril, and could not be reached in any other way, Grag had walked days under an ocean, over the sea-floor, to reach the island where they were imprisoned. The robot was nearly lost many times in that perilous traverse, in constant danger of sinking into the ooze at the bottom of the sea, but he finally made it and brought help to his trapped comrades.
CAST ADRIFT
Another time, Grag was cast adrift in space when outlaws destroyed the little space-flier in which he was trying to reach his master on Saturn.
The great robot floated in space for many days, helpless and yet still living, needing no food or air, and finally was picked up by Curt Newton. Only the robot could have survived such an experience.
There is a great weld-scar down the back of Grag’s metal back, which tells a tale of an adventure that neither he nor his master will ever forget.
Captain Future had penetrated into one of the caverns of Uranus’ chasmed abysses, with Grag. The outlaws Curt was after blew up the tunnel entrance to that cave.
Captain Future would have been crushed beneath falling rock had not Grag, with his superhuman strength, held up the masses of falling stone until his master could jump clear. Grag himself was crushed beneath the rock, but Captain Future dug him out later, and the great weld-scar on his back is his memento of the adventure.
NO SENSE OF HUMOR
Grag has no sense of humor, as humans know it. He is puzzled sometimes by Curt’s jokes or the sly drollery of Otho. And that makes him uneasy, for the robot’s great ambition is to be human in everything.
His happiest moments have been when Captain Future has told him, “Grag, you are more human than most humans I know.”
Huge, incredible in strength, his great metal head towering high, his photoelectric eyes gleaming and his mighty metal arms raised, Grag is a terrible figure to evildoers when he goes into battle at the side of Captain Future and Otho.
And woe betide the person whom Grag suspects of trying to harm his master!
The Synthetic Man
From the Summer 1940 issue of Captain Future
OTHO, the android or synthetic man, is the only being of his kind in the Solar System. He is a man who was never born, but was artificially made!
In his natural form no one would mistake him for a human being. For the android’s arms and legs have a rubbery, boneless look. His artificially created flesh is pure white, not pink like human flesh. Otho’s dead-white face has no eyebrows or eyelashes, and there is no hair whatever upon his well-shaped white head. In a beltlike harness he carries his ray-pistols, make-up pouch and other belongings.
Otho’s face was carefully molded by his maker, Captain Future’s father, before the final “setting” of his flesh. The man-made features are regular, yet there is something unusual about Otho’s expression.
Like a cat’s eyes, his jade-green orbs can see in darkness. And there is a queer, alien humor, a gay, mocking deviltry in the cool way in which they stare.
THE WORLD’S FASTEST BEING
When Roger Newton and the Brain planned Otho’s Creation, they modeled the synthetic man after the human body, but simplified the pattern. Otho has no appendix or other such superfluous organs which in the human body are atrophied and useless. The android’s physical make-up is streamlined for efficiency. To more than one Earthman, he has seemed almost
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