Weird Fantasy #14 (1950)

The Trap of Time!

by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen

• Release: July/August 1950
• Format: Comic Book
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: YA and Up
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

You will be tampering with tremendous natural forces, Don! It is dangerous! You may unleash some awful catastrophe!

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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 Static 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 (franchise): Weird Fantasy #14, July/August 1950

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From Don Hartley’s physics lab, 1950 ⋙ to outside the city where Don and Adele lived., 1946. Round trip. Note: Don goes back four years to 1946.
2. From Don Hartley’s physics lab, 1950 ⋙ to the Pleistocene. Note: Don’s accidental trip.