Captain Zero
Entry updated 7 July 2025. Tagged: Character, Publication.
US Pulp magazine, three bimonthly issues, November 1949-March 1950, published by Recreational Reading Corp., Indiana, edited anonymously by Alden H Norton. Each issue contained a novel written by prolific pulp author G T Fleming-Roberts (1910-1968). As a result of a radiation overdose, Captain Zero (alias "The Master of Midnight") becomes involuntarily Invisible at night; he uses his unwanted gift to operate against the underworld. When invisible he speaks in italics. This, the last of the hero pulps, was closer to detective fiction than sf. An almost identical edition was published simultaneously in Canada. [FHP/MJE]
further reading
- Master of Midnight: The Collected Captain Zero (Boston, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2013) [coll: contains the lead story from each of the 3 issues of the pulp magazine: pb/]
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