Unusual Tales #3

The Lodestone

by Joe Gill [?] and Ernie Bach

Release: April 1956
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

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!

DEBUT

“The Lodestone,” Unusual Tales #3 (Charlton Comics, April 1956).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Carpe’s lab, circa 1956 ⋙ to an ice age, about 4Ma. Round trip.