Weird Fantasy #17 (1951)

The Time Machine and the Shmoe!

by Harvey Kurtzman

• Release: January/February 1951
• Format: Comic Book
• Genres: Science Fiction, Comedy
• Audience: YA and Up
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Please sir, professor, sir! Can I go along with you on the time machine?

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

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

Themes

• Technology and Science from the Future: Donald does not choose particularly well in selecting technology to take back to sixth-century England (not Camelot).

Groupings

• EC Comics (franchise): Weird Fantasy #17, January/February 1950

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From an unknown time ⋙ to an unknown time.