Filbert’s Frightful Future
- by Stan Lee[?], Larry Lieber[?], and Don Heck
- Comic Book
- Science Fiction, Weird Fiction
- YA and Up
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- “Filbert’s Frightful Future” by Stan Lee[?], Larry Lieber[?], and John Forte , Journey into Mystery #85 (Marvel Comics, October 1962) .
Mad scientist Filbert Phelps wants to use his time machine to become the richest man in the world,
—Michael Main
Yes, I am a genius . . . and that’s why I’m about to become fabuously rich! Just as soon as I finish my greatest invention . . .
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: presumed time of the story and Filbert’s destination time
- Timeline Models
- Outside of Time: “alone in a world of vast nothingness”
- Unexplained Timeline Model
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Booths, Wardrobes, et al.: the size of a large closet
- Time Catapults: It seems to be a catapult because it didn’t accompany Filbert.
- Themes
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Filbert’s Frightful Future” by Stan Lee[?], Larry Lieber[?], and John Forte , Journey into Mystery #85 (Marvel Comics, October 1962) .
Indexer Notes
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- Content—Filbert goes to a void rather than to the future. That’s why we’ve indexed the content as having debatable time travel.