Appearing in "The Futurians!"
Featured Characters:
- Futurians (First appearance)
- Avatar / Andrew Pendragon (First appearance)
- Blackmane / Walter "Wally" Bonner (First appearance)
- Mosquito / Dana Morgan (First appearance)
- Silkie / Tracy Winters (First appearance)
- Silver Shadow / Jonathan Darknyt (First appearance)
- Sunswift / Neith (First appearance)
- Terrayne, the Earthmover / Harry Robbins (First appearance)
- Vandervecken / Lord Callistrax / Rummie the Dutchman (First appearance)
- Werehawk / Matthew Blackfeather (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- American soldiers
- Captain
- Farnsworth
Antagonists:
- Inheritors
- Armored raiders
- Gronnak
- Controller
- Sea Serpent
- Temujin
- Dagon
- Centurion
- Armored raiders
- Moosie, Rocco and Lennie, street punks
Other Characters:
- Future Dynamics
- Truscott
- US Navy
- US Coast Guard
- Steve
- Ralph
- Mike
- San Diego Police Department
- John F. Kennedy (Mentioned)
- The Beatles (Referenced)
- Dakota people (Mentioned)
- General Patton (Mentioned)
- Godzilla (Mentioned)
- In the future:
- Terminus Grand Council
- Scholar Flandry of East Level Two
- Techno-Prime Sylna of Fourth Ward Seven
- Agronomech from Hydroponics Main
- Highborn Mekro, of Skytower Terrace
- Terminus Grand Council
Locations:
- Earth
- Beijing (Mentioned)
- Canada
- Egypt (Mentioned)
- Italy
- Moscow (Mentioned)
- Paris (Mentioned)
- United Kingdom (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Black Mountain Military Arsenal, somewhere in the Southwest
- California
- San Diego
- Cabrillo Institute
- San Diego
- Colorado
- Denver
- Future Dynamics Complex
- Dallas (Mentioned)
- Illinois (State)
- Kansas (Mentioned)
- Missouri (State)
- New York City
- Vietnam (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Gorillas (Mentioned)
- Turkeys (Mentioned)
Items:
- The Inheritors' time travel device
- Trans-Temporal Projector
- Time Bombs
- Time-Fortress
- Teleportation gizmo
- Proton blaster
- Activator globe
- the Annihilator
Vehicles:
- Aerial fortress
- Giant drill machine
- Tripod Machine
Synopsis for "The Futurians!"
From the future of Earth, two factions wage war: the evil Inheritors and the scientific Futurians. The Inhertitors cause the sun to turn into a red giant, then escape the end of the world by traveling in time. Determined to stop the Inheritors by manipulating the past, the Futurians send genetic time bombs backwards in time, seeding past humans with superhuman potential. Callistrax then sends his mind to the past, taking over a transient in 1962. 20 years later, Vanderveckan -- the man that the Callistrax possessed -- reaps the rewards of that genetic seeding when he creates his first line of defense against the Inheritors: The Futurians.
Notes
- Contains a "Dedication to Stan, Jack, Steve, John, Bill, Julie, Murray, Gardner, Murphy, Joe, Gil, Carmine, Curt, Will, C.C., Mac, Jesse, Carl, Dick, Reed, Chuck, Al and especially Wally -- who, with a host of others, blazed the trail and made this work happen -- and to Paty, whose magic palette breathed life into it."
- Second and third printings exist.