Ernie Bach

writer, artist
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #3

The Lodestone

Businessman Burt Carpe and his scientist sidekick Jeff struggle with coming up with a plan to make money from their time machine. In the end, they take a large lump of carbon back to an unspecified ice age a few million years in the past. Can you guess why? —Michael Main
There she is, my cyclo-metronome, a real live time-machine!
In three panels, a 1950s brown sedan drives through the rain at night.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Gorgo 23

The Land of Long Ago

Charlton’s Gorgo comic was inspired by the the 1961 movie of the same name Unlike the movie, however, the comic book Gorgo had one adventure in time when Dr. Hobart Howarth rescues Gorgo from YaPa* by sending the giant reptile back to the late Jurassic. Sadly, as a child, I bought only one Gorgo comic, which was not the time-travel issue, although that one issue I had was drawn by Steve Ditko, hooray!
* Yet another Pentagon attack —Michael Main
I will send Gorgo back into is own era in the stream of time. Here he is an anachronism . . . In his own time, he would be in harmony withhis surroundings!
A giant green reptile bats at a dark pterodactyl while a man cowers to one side.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel