History Creator / EdmondHamilton

* {{Ultraterrestrials'': "The Abysmal Invaders" revolves around a race of LizardFolk who live inside the HollowWorld with their DomesticatedDinosaurs, and have been hiding out down there since the Cretaceous Period. Then one day they decide they want the surface world back.

%%* TranshumanTreachery: In ''The Man Who Evolved'', the title character invents a machine that accelerates his evolution. In the first two stages, he is still somewhat decent in behavior. In the third stage, he states he intends to take over Earth and use it as a laboratory. The protagonist stops him by [[spoiler:convincing him to evolve further. It works; the next stage is beyond such desires]].

* ChemistryCanDoAnything: In ''The Man Who Evolved'', a man who goes through [[EvolutionPowerUp accelerated evolution]] shows off his increased intelligence by making ''gold'' out of common chemicals.

* TranshumanTreachery: In ''The Man Who Evolved'', the title character invents a machine that accelerates his evolution. In the first two stages, he is still somewhat decent in behavior. In the third stage, he states he intends to take over Earth and use it as a laboratory. The protagonist stops him by [[spoiler:convincing him to evolve further. It works; the next stage is beyond such desires]].

** "ComicBook/TheUnknownLegionnaire"

%%* DefrostingIceQueen

* DefrostingIceQueen: See TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask below. In Hamilton's 'verse the two tend to go together.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Empress Tharanya of ''Sun Smasher''.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Hamilton based at least two stories off the [[ScienceMarchesOn then-plausible idea]] that radiation could activate evolution. Both horribly subverted the concept of EvolutionaryLevels, though in different ways--"The Man Who Evolved" proposes that [[spoiler:evolution is cyclical, eventually returning to protoplasm]], while "Devolution" says that [[spoiler:bacteria are the highest form of life, and everything since has been a step down]].

* CameFromTheSky: "The Accursed Galaxy" (1935) has the force field prison of an immortal EnergyBeing land on Earth.

From the mid 1940s to the mid 1960s, Hamilton was a regular writer for Creator/DCComics, working on the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', and ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' stories. He is credited as co-creator of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, the original Kathy Kane ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, and the Batmen of All Nations.