The Lodestone
- by Joe Gill [?] and Ernie Bach
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Lodestone” by Joe Gill [?]:] and Ernie Bach, Unusual Tales #3 (Charlton Comics, April 1956).
Businessman Burt Carpe and his scientist sidekick Jeff struggle with coming up with a plan to make money from their time machine. In the end, they take a large lump of carbon back to an unspecified ice age a few million years in the past. Can you guess why?
—Michael Main
There she is, my cyclo-metronome, a real live time-machine!
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- Time Periods
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Ships: a sphere, possible able to fly, although never shown doing so
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: “If we've got the know-how to make this cyclo-metronome, then we've also got the know-how to make a million bucks!”
- Groupings
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- “The Lodestone” by Joe Gill [?]:] and Ernie Bach, Unusual Tales #3 (Charlton Comics, April 1956).