The Man Who Stopped Time!
- by Carl Wessler and Dick Ayers
- Comic Book
- Weird Fiction
- YA and Up
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Man Who Stopped Time!” by Carl Wessler and Dick Ayers, Journey into Mystery #27 (Atlas Comics, October 1955).
After George Applby’s proposal is rejected by his fiancée, George stumbles across a stopwatch that freezes time for other people in the vicinity, so naturally he hatches a scheme to use the watch to break up Nancy and her new boyfriend.
—Michael Main
I don’t want some other girl! I want Nancy! If only I could stop time!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time period
- Themes
- Frozen Time: George’s stopwatch seems to halt time for other nearby people, but not for nearby objects (such as their watches) or people who are farther away.
- Unusual Aging: Time appears to pass normally for George while time is stopped for nearby people, but he ages at a rate of one year for every minute of real time.
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- “The Man Who Stopped Time!” by Carl Wessler and Dick Ayers, Journey into Mystery #27 (Atlas Comics, October 1955).