Journey into Mystery #2

The Pact

by an unknown writer 

• Release: August 1952
• Format: Short Story
• Genre: Weird Fiction
• Audience: YA and Up
• Content: Debatable Time Travel
• Original Language: English

The year is 1693, the month is June, and the day is the fifteenth. Come and watch with me.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1600 to 1699: time being viewed: 15 June 1693
• Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed start time

Timeline Models

• Unexplained Timeline Model
• Viewing the Future: Branders gains the power to see the future.

Themes

• Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: viewing Branders Conrad.
• Self-Visitation: Satan sees his earlier self.
• Viewing the Past

Real-World Tags

• Witch Trials: Probably intended as Salem.

Fictional Tags

• Dickensian Guides: In this story, Satan is a mildly Dickensian guide, showing an ancestor’s past to Conrad.
• Satan: the “Uninvited Guest”

Groupings

• Atlas Comics (franchise)
• Journey into Mystery (comic book): #2, August 1952