Weird Fantasy #15 (1950)

I Died Tomorrow!

by Gardner Fox and Jack Kamen

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

When a mad scientist with a time machine gets together with a power-crazed university president, the result is deadly (and time travel aspects of the plot makes little sense).

— Michael Main

I licked my lips greedily! I had to have that time-machine!

DEBUT

“I Died Tomorrow!,” Weird Fantasy #15 (EC Comics, September/October 1950).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time period

Time Travel Methods

Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: a cubical time booth, big enough for two

Themes

Entanglement of Concurrent Copies: The university professor seems to think that he is entangled with his time traveling self, so that when that when he reaches the time when his other self dies, then so will he. This makes no more sense than the fact that when the dead time traveling self was brought back one day, he came back to life. But never mind! At least it’s a nice example of the entanglement tag.
Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: at the race track

Fictional Tags

Mad Scientists: Pavlonis

Groupings

EC Comics (franchise): Weird Fantasy #15, September/October 1950

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Ernst Pavonis’s lab, an unspecified day circa 1950 ⋙ to the same lab, six hours later. Round trip. Note: the test trip.
From Ernst Pavonis’s lab, later that same day or maybe the next day ⋙ to the same lab, 24 hours later. Round trip. Note: the trip where Pavonis kills the narrator.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Cover—It's unclear to me whether the cover is intended to illustrate the issue’s final story, “Dark Side of the Moon.” We used this cover because we have no images of the interior artwork from the original publication.