Weird Fantasy #13 (1950)

Only Time Will Tell

Sitting at a lab bench and twirling knobs on a panel, a scientist talks about a brain on the bench in front of him.

Eloi Bronze Medal

by Al Feldstein et al.

Comic Book
Science Fiction
YA and Up
Definite Time Travel
English
“Only Time Will Tell,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #13 (EC Comics, May/June 1950).

Start by reading Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941), and then read this one. You’ll enjoy both and stretch your mind around the first ex nihilo idea that we’ve spotted in comic books. Note that the half blueprint itself does have an origin, and you can trace it’s timeline from that origin to the past and back again. It’s only the concept expressed in the blueprint that has no origin.

—Michael Main

—are the same piece!

Variants

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“Only Time Will Tell,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #13 (EC Comics, May/June 1950).

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Al Feldstein [uncredited] (plot)

Bill Gaines [uncredited] (script)

Al Feldstein [uncredited] (script)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . art by Harry Harrison [uncredited] (pencils)

Wally Wood [uncredited] (inks)

Translations

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German.
“Nur die Zeit wird es zeigen” by Al Feldstein et al., Aud dem EC-Archiv: Wally Wood #1 (All Verlag, December 2018) [We know that Wally Wood was credited, and we assume that the translator Jörg Bennert was credited, but we don’t know about the other creators who were originally uncredited in 1950.].