CAPTAIN FUTURE VOL 2 NO 2 (1941)
This series of pulp novels features a hero named Captain Future,
with most of the stories written by Edmond Hamilton, who would
later move on to comics. In this issue, he introduces an amorphous
shape-changing blob named Oog, which he would adapt into Chameleon
Boy's pet, Proty, when he took over the Legion. This story also
mentions a Chameleon Man and the Pleasure Planet, a gambling asteroid
akin to Ventura, home of the Luck Lords. See
more about the genesis of Proty here.