Space Adventures #1

Time Skipper Visits the City of Brass

[writer unknown] and Art Cappello (art)

Release: July 1952
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Charlton’s first issue of Space Adventures introduced Hap Holliday, the Time Skipper, who travels with Professor Eon Tempus to the far future to rescue Ula, queen of Futuropolis, from reptile people. The end of this installment assures us that we’ll learn more of Ula in the next issue, but alas, the second and final adventure of the Time Skipper was delayed until Space Adventures #3.

— Michael Main

Just skip along with Hap Holliday, the time skipper, in his “Year an Instant” yacht and learn what the world can be like in somebody else’s lifetime!!!

DEBUT

“Time Skipper Visits the City of Brass,” in Space Adventures 1, July 1952.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Assumed starting time.
Far Future: Inconsistent date in the story: 100,001 AD, 100,000,001, or 100,0001 [sic].

Time Travel Methods

Time Ships: The Timejumper.

Themes

Fix History!: Hal, Ula, and the Professor plan to reverse the takeover (six months ago) of the Brass City by reptile people.

Fictional Tags

Hap Holliday, Time Skipper

Groupings

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From 20th century ⋙ to Futuropolis, in the far future. Note: Hal and the professor in the Timejumper.
From Futuropolis, in the far future ⋙ to the Brass City, six months and eleven days earlier. Round trip. Note: Ula joins Hal and the professor.