A Small Matter of Time
- by Joe Gill [?] and Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- “A Small Matter of Time” by Joe Gill [?] and Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio [uncredited], Unusual Tales #30 (Charlton Comics, October 1961).
The title suggests that Professor Amos Shute’s intrepid travelers are going back in time to four planets that are identical in every way to our own, but then again, perhaps those four planets were merely at earlier times to begin with. We won’t say one way or another, but we are glad that the Spanish Flu pandemic, World War I, World War II, and World War III were all averted on some Earth.
—Michael Main
In what time period will you find yourselves when you land at your particular destinatoin!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: 1914 on alternate world #2 and 1918 on alternate world #3
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: 1939 on alternate world #1
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: 1963 on alternate world #4
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: 1985 on the professor’s world
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Ships: The spaceships may also be time ships.
- Themes
- Fix History!: four different events
- Kill Hitler
- Save the Bigwig (excluding JFK and Lincoln)!: Franz Ferdinand
- Time Corps: If they are time travelers, then Shute’s band of heroes is certainly a kind of time corps.
- Real-World Tags
- Adolf Hitler
- Cold War: #30, October 1961
- Franz Ferdinand
- Spanish Flu
- World War I
- World War II
- Groupings
Variants
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- “A Small Matter of Time” by Joe Gill [?] and Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio [uncredited], Unusual Tales #30 (Charlton Comics, October 1961).
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art by
Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio [uncredited]