Unusual Tales #3

Don Alvarado’s Treasure

[writer unknown]

Release: April 1956
Format: Short Story
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

Young Frank Winston has everything a man could ever want, but for the past three months, he's been unable to move on in his ideal life because he’s haunted by dreams of a band of 18th-century Spanish soldiers who buried a treasure chest in the desert north of Mexico.

— Michael Main

"Oh, Professor," half chided Helen Crane, "You don’t mean to say that you believe in these dreams. That the past can actually come back into the present."

DEBUT

“Don Alvarado’s Treasure,” Unusual Tales #3 (Charlton Comics, April 1956).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1727
Circa AD 1950 to 1959

Time Travel Methods

Emotional Outcries through Time: Alvarado cries out to Frank to have the treasure given to charity.

Real-World Tags

Old West

Fictional Tags

Ghosts: Alvarado and his men might be ghosts rather than time travelers.

Groupings

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the American southwest, AD 1727 ⋙ to Frank’s dreams and once on the horizon, circa 1956. Note: possibly ghosts rather than time travelers.