The Blinding Flash!
- by Carl Wessler and Robert Q. Sale
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction, Weird Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Blinding Flash!” by Carl Wessler and Robert Q. Sale , Journey into Mystery #47 (Atlas Comics, June 1957).
In order to retrieve his cigarette lighter from a crime scene, a small-time thief agrees to be a test subject for Professor Mark Hanson’s atom-powered machine that sends an astral projection of a person into the past. Oh, I almost forgot: There’s one other volunteer, too.
—Michael Main
Professor Mark Hanson has tus far been unable to get a single person to use his remarkable discovery for recovering the past!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: time of Hansen’s youth
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time of the story
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Hypnosis, Mental Powers, Potions, and Drug-Induced Travel: A nuclear flash puts the traveler into a trance, allowing
- Time Retrievers: Prof. Hanson’s machine is not a time retriever, but the invisible traveler who’s sent into the past can both view events and retrieve objects.
- Themes
- Invisible Traveler
- Meeting or Viewing Ancestors or Descendants: Hanson sees his father.
- Self-Visitation: Hansen sees his 15-year-old self
- Viewing the Past
- Groupings
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- “The Blinding Flash!” by Carl Wessler and Robert Q. Sale , Journey into Mystery #47 (Atlas Comics, June 1957).