The Trap of Time!
- by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Trap of Time!,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #14 (EC Comics, July/August 1950).
Physicist Don Hartley has a plan to save his beloved Adele, who died in a car crash on a hot July night.
—Michael Main
You will be tampering with tremendous natural forces, Don! It is dangerous! You may unleash some awful catastrophe!
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- Time Periods
- Age of Reptiles (252 Ma to 66 Ma: Mesozoic/Triassic/Jurassic/Cretaceous): Don’s eventual resting place
- Circa AD 1940 to 1949: the crash in 1946
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: four years after the crash of 1946
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: Don does exactly the actions that were always done in 1946 to cause the crash.
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: a large cylinder with a door, port holes, and an exhaust vent on top
- Themes
- Causal Loops: Adele’s crash causes Don to come back to change the tire, which causes Adele’s crash
- Reincarnation: as an idea that could not be persued
- Save “Lois”!: Save Adele!
- Time Montages: the fifth panel from the end
- Groupings
- EC Comics: Weird Fantasy #14, July/August 1950
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- “The Trap of Time!,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #14 (EC Comics, July/August 1950).
Jack Kamen [uncredited]