My friend Art Lortie, science fiction historian extraordinaire, pointed me toward the
unassuming Myra North, Special Nurse, who ran in the daily comics from 1936 to 1941. For the
most part, she was nothing more than a special nurse, but some episodes, particularly in the
Sunday strips, were more fantastic than others. Art told me of the 1937 appearance of a
machine that saw into the future (“The Mechanical Eye” which concluded on 28 March 1937);
a later story (“The Mystic Dragon,” 10 Mar 1940 to 13 Oct 1940) finds
the nefarious present-day Zero back in the time of Scheherazade and Sinbad (although it’s
never said whether he’s an actual time traveler).
Art Lortie’s guide and scans include
141 pages of new and reprint material from comic books, too, although I didn’t spot any
time travel therein.
Now then, just visualize how important it might be if we were able to see what was
happening a year from now!
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