Carl Wessler

writer
Comic Book

Strange Tales #5

The Trap

After parachuting from the edge of space, Hugh Kane finds himself a month in his future. —Michael Main
We were no more than ten miles from the airport in the “hub,” when suddenly the plan shot ur . . straight up!
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  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #6

The Man Who Went Back

A man on death row murders his guards and escapes, getting on an odd bus where everyone is rapidly aging. And when he demands to be taken back, that’s when the real fun begins. —Michael Main
You’ve got to stop the bus . . . turn around or we’ll all soon be dead of old age!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #18

The Man Who Went Back!

When Jeff Martin floats downstream, he literally floats back in time. Now, if only those two pesky men would quit following him, —Michael Main
It looks like there was something about that swim in the river that threw me back ten years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #27

The Man Who Stopped Time!

After George Applby’s proposal is rejected by his fiancée, George stumbles across a stopwatch that freezes time for other people in the vicinity, so naturally he hatches a scheme to use the watch to break up Nancy and her new boyfriend. —Michael Main
I don’t want some other girl! I want Nancy! If only I could stop time!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #33

There’ll Be Some Changes Made

Paul Haines spends his days stewing over the money his 18th-centery ancestor wasted, until he realizes that there’s a way he can get it. I found the story oddly disquieting in that Paul never really faced punishment for his crime and he got the girl too boot—definitely not the usual weird fiction pattern, although I’ll still tag it that way. —Michael Main
Change the past! Why haven’t I thought of this before? It can be done!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #2

The Betrayer!

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!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #36

I, the Pharaoh

This story could be a fantasy about Egyptologist Ted Craven, who studies Pharaoh Ras Hati-Ka so deeply that he eventually becomes the ancient Egyptian; but there are clues that the whole story is only a delusion in Craven’s overworked mind. Or perhaps it’s all a dream of the pharaoh himself. —Michael Main
No . . . it’s all an illusion! I’ve been working too hard!
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  • Fantasy
  • Mainstream
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #37

The Deep Freeze

Fresh off a heist of $150,000, three crooks freeze themselves for 150 years to escape the law. —Michael Main
We were in suspended animation for two hundred years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #38

Those Who Vanish!

Conman Pete Arlen buys a magic spring that purportedly makes people twenty years younger, and then he unloads it before knowing all the particulars of its magic. —Michael Main
You mean to tell me that the waters of Chi-Na-Nichi actually makes people twenty years younger!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #39

I Lived Four Times!

Stefan Orjanski, a Hungarian soldier, is taken by his love to a sorcerer who can help him desert the army, but the help requires first living through part of the lives of four others. —Michael Main
I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!
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  • Fantasy
  • War
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

The Swirling Mist!

Reporter Jeff Coates is working on a series of articles about the old Mississippi river mansions when he spots a riverboat near the old, dilapidated Waverly plantation. —Michael Main
Peculiar things go on ’round that old mansion!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • No Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #42

Life Sentence!

Leo Sampsom is a four-time thief serving a life sentence. So what has he got to lose when a strange man offers him a pill that will put him back into his own body right before his last theft? —Michael Main
But what if those pills really work? I’d be out of prison . . . free, back twenty years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #5

No Place to Hide!

Back in the 19th century, Ernst Mahl steals a historic king’s crown and a time travel potion, which leads him back to the 18th century where he must steal it again. —Michael Main
When Ernst materialized again, he found himself in familiar surroundings! He realized it was his own town, but there was something different . . .
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #42

The Panhandler

One of the six time travelers who’ve arrived to intervene in Doug Cotter’s panhandling life just seems to know far too much about Doug’s private life. —Michael Main
You haven’t a prison record yet. But you will have . . . unless you let us help you!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #47

The Blinding Flash!

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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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Adventure into Mystery #8

The Night of March 5th

The machine that spy Bruno Ames steals takes him one year into the future where the Daily Bugle tells him his boss has been sentenced to life in prison. —Michael Main
I just left Novitch this morning! How could he have been arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced, all in one day?
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #48

Don’t Turn Around!

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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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel