The Time Machine and the Shmoe!
- by Harvey Kurtzman
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction, Comedy
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Time Machine and the Shmoe!,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #157 (EC Comics, January/February 1951).
Cleaning man Donald Yubyutch is fed up with everyone at the time travel lab thinking he’s nothing but a shmoe.
—Michael Main
Please sir, professor, sir! Can I go along with you on the time machine?
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): England in the sixth century
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed staring time
- Time Travel Methods
- FTL Time Travel: . . . if we can travel faster than light, it stands to reason that we will catch up with all the old light that was projected from the past . . . and that will put us in the past!
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: an ovoid-shaped capsule called a time-top, but not a ship as is the original Time Top
- Groupings
- EC Comics: Weird Fantasy #17, January/February 1950
Variants
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- “The Time Machine and the Shmoe!,” no credited writer or artist, Weird Fantasy #157 (EC Comics, January/February 1951).
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written by
Harvey Kurtzman [uncredited]