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Journey into Mystery #38

Those Who Vanish!

by Carl Wessler and Steve Ditko

Conman Pete Arlen buys a magic spring that purportedly makes people twenty years younger, and then he unloads it before knowing all the particulars of its magic.
— Michael Main
You mean to tell me that the waters of Chi-Na-Nichi actually makes people twenty years younger!
DEBUT
“Those Who Vanish!,” in Journey into Mystery #38 (Atlas Comics, September 1956).
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1 English variant
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INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Content—The fountain of youth does work, making people twenty years younger, and it also returns people to what they were doing at that time. For example, suppose I were to enter the waters right now in 2023; then I'd immediately find myself back on the campus of the University of Colorado teaching undergrads in Chem 140 at 10:00am on a weekday. But would I actually be in 2003? I don’t think so, which is why I’ve marked the story as having debatable time travel.