Don’t Turn Around!
- by Carl Wessler and Bill Everett
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Don’t Turn Around!” by Carl Wessler and Bill Everett , Journey into Mystery #48 (Atlas Comics, August 1957).
Just when two burglars approach his house, reclusie scientist Frank Mulford finishes his time machine to retrieve people from the past.
—Michael Main
What a mad idea . . . thinking I could bring people from the past with this machine!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: presumed time of story
- Unspecified Past Year: The melee came from multiple years from the past.
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Catapults: Mulford’s machine grabbed people from the past and soon sent them back.
- Time Portal: From the drawings, it looks like the machine opened some sort of portal.
- Themes
- Melée of Time Travelers: a Roman soldier, a caveman, a cowboy, a policeman, and (perhaps) a musketeer
- Groupings
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- “Don’t Turn Around!” by Carl Wessler and Bill Everett , Journey into Mystery #48 (Atlas Comics, August 1957).