Bill Molno

writer, artist
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #1

La Caverna del Pasado

Hoping to sell a big story to his editor, reporter Jim Foster fakes photographs of prehistoric animals in a legendary Latin American cave, but when he takes Professor charles Beaduy to the cave, they find more than what was promised.

The cave does bring together animals and people from different times, but whether any actual time travel occurs is debatable. And before you ask, I don’t know what a mastondia is either. —Michael Main
Time must have stood still in this region of Earth. Take a picture of this mastondia before it goes for us.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #9

The Day I Lived Over Again

While on the lam, hardened criminal Blackie Nelson gets a chance to live the day over—and this time he plans to evade the police and win the girl! —Michael Main
The day’s starting over again! This doll’s going to fall for me . . . Only this time I’m going to work things different!
In the large first panel, a man in a business suit stands in front of a larger version of himself as a caveman.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #10

Man from the Ages

A military post in Alaska discovers a prehistoric man frozen in ice. —Michael Main
You are right, Jason. This is big!! A beast-like human, frozen solid for who knows how many thousands of years . . . perhaps millions of years, and perfectly preserved!
In the large first panel, three military men stand around an ice hole discussing a frozen man in the ice.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #11

Noise in the Cellar

Once again, a plumber receives an emergency call from 12 Hedge Row. —Michael Main
Will you come right over? My water heater looks dangerous!
In May of 1915, a woman asks her husband to go into the cellar to check out a strange noise.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #12

Time of the Dragon

RAF pilot Clive St. George is a snooty chap because of his fine ancestry until one day he has motor trouble while flying through a storm. —Michael Main
Motor trouble! Must go down! According to my reckoning I must be close to my ancestral home in West Croyden . . .
The life of snooty Clive St. George is shown in a series of three large panels
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #13

After Tomorrow!

While preparing for war against Bulavia, King Gustave of Translovia sees two visions of the future by way of a magnificent timepiece. —Michael Main
I have had a vision of my victory tomorrow!
Three large panels depict King Gustave of Translovia awaiting the arrival of a magnificent timepiece.
  • Fantasy
  • War
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory. —Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
In the first of three panels, a modern man sits in a chair with his cap attached to electrical equipment as an ancient woman and two men look on.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #26

Where Is Amelia?

At a happenin’ party, a beatnik puts Amelia into a trance, sending her to, like, the the 25th century! —Michael Main
Sleep, chick, sleep deep! You will like go into another world. A world without squares. A world where everyone is like real sweep people!
In the first of three large panels, we see a beatnik playing the bongos and hypnotizing a young woman at a party.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #29

Where Does It Go?

J. L . Standish finds himself unexpectedly on a flying bus to the future where the automata have a job for him. —Michael Main
But what would I do? If your automated processes are as efficient as I believe, a mere mortal cannot be important to you!
A purple city bus flies above startled onlookers.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #47

The Unwelcome Guest

After a car accident, Steve Teller stumbles into a house that takes him from one time to another. —Michael Main
Open up! I’ve had enough of this! Whatever crazy explanation there is, I want it now!
Standing in front of a medieval knight, a startled man exclaims "I . . . I must be dreaming."
  • Horror
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Nonfiction Comic

Gorgo #23

Time Pocket

Although this one-page feature is title “Time Pocket,” it seems to be about travel to another dimension rather than through time. —Michael Main
A person can suddenly disappear before our eyes, by accidentally or purposely stepping into another dimension.
A five-panel single-page feature describing how people step into "other dimensions."
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • No Time Phenomena