Many magazines across the U.S. featured a flag on the cover in this patriotic month. In this
second
Probability Zero story of the issue, Elliot Gallant, hero to the people and
beacon light of courage, was the first man to travel through time; Sebastian Lelong, editor
of the Encyclopedia Galactica, aims to find out why he never returned.
This is the earliest
story that I’ve spotted anywhere with the time traveler coming to know his own mother.