The Betrayer!
- by Carl Wessler and Bill Benulis
- Comic Book
- Weird Fiction
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “The Betrayer!” [uncredited], Adventure into Mystery #2 (Atlas Comics, July 1956) .
Raymond Coates gets his wish of going back to profit from the War Between the States rather than joining the union army fight, but the war profiteering doesn’t work out quite the way he wanted.
—Michael Main
If I could live the past thrity years over I’d not make the same mistakes!
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1861 and about thirty years later
- Timeline Models
- Resilient Timeline: We see that the timeline can be changed because Coates takes a different path in 1861, but the final panel of the story suggests that it’s hard to not revert to what it was before.
- Unexplained Timeline Model
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: war profiteering
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “The Betrayer!” [uncredited], Adventure into Mystery #2 (Atlas Comics, July 1956) .
Indexer Notes
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- Credits—from the GCD