Here, let's see how Hamilton and Sherman introduced him to us. Like Captain Future, Chris KL-99 was an explorer. Hamilton would go on to write every one of Chris KL-99's Strange Adventures stories, along with artwork by Howard Sherman. I continue a month of "Nothing is Better" by spotlighting Edmond Hamilton and Howard Sherman's Chris KL-99 (the comic book calls him just plain ol' KL99, but later sources have gone with a hyphen and I like the hyphen better, almost assuredly because of the influence of characters like C-3PO and R2-C2), from the pages of Strange Adventures.Įdmond Hamilton was one of the most respected science fiction pulp fiction writers around and when DC launched the science fiction anthology, Strange Adventures, they naturally not only wanted Hamilton involved, but they used his name to sell the book, with his name appearing on both the cover of the first issue but also in the title of the first story, the adventures of Chris KL-99, a character loosely based on Hamilton's iconic pulp fiction character, Captain Future. On December 31, 1946, Hamilton married fellow science fiction author and screen writer Leigh Brackett.
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