HAMILTON, Edmond (1904-1977). Near Complete Set of the Collected Works of Edmond Hamilton. Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, [ca. 2000s]. Thick 8vos. Publisher's bindings, dust jackets, two volumes in publisher's shrinkwrap. FIRST EDITIONS (shrinkwrapped volumes not examined out of shrinkwrap, so those volumes are presumed first editions). Titles include: The Collected Captain Future, Vols. #1 and #2; The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Vols. #1-#3. This lot is offered with two first edition copies of Hamilton's novel, The Star of Life (1959, hardcovers in jackets, generally worn, sunned - very good).

As of now, Haffner Press has published five volumes of the Collected Captain Future series and four volumes of The Collected Edmond Hamilton. Hamilton was a science fiction writer during the Golden Age of Science Fiction, writing numerous stories for Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, and other magazines. He won the first Jules Verne Prize for best short story (The Island of Unreason, 1933, the precursor of the Hugo Awards). He also wrote for DC Comics, writing stories for Batman and Superman and others. His pulp character, Captain Future, is his best-known original character. Of note, the famous meme of Batman slapping Robin is from one of the stories he wrote, The Clash of Cape and Cowl. 

With later price stickers on shrinkwrap and plastic dust jacket covers (stickers not on jackets themselves). Fine.