What Happened to Harrison
- by Jack Oleck and Howard O’Donnell
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction, Weird Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “What Happened to Harrison!” by Jack Oleck and Howard O’Donnell , Journey into Mystery #45 (Atlas Comics, April 1957).
Harrison bets his academics reputation on being able to show that his rival’s claim of sending a man’s subconscious back in time is hooey.
—Michael Main
Keep your voice down, Harrison! You might wake Martin, and that would be dangerous! It would alter the past!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time of the story
- Timeline Models
- Changed Timeline Is Missing Some Story Characters: Harrison is eliminated by his own interference with Martin’s trip.
- In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life: After going to the past, Martin returns to a changed timeline with only one of himself.
- Multiple Naive Timelines
- Remembering Other Timelines: All of the characters remember the timeline with Harrison.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Grandfather Paradox: Harrison’s actions cause Martin to change the past so that Harrison’s father dies.
- Mind Travel
- Travels into Yourself
- Groupings
Variants
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- “What Happened to Harrison!” by Jack Oleck and Howard O’Donnell , Journey into Mystery #45 (Atlas Comics, April 1957).