If—You Were Stranded in Time
by Jack Binder
Comic book artist Jack Binder wasn’t as well known among science fiction readers as his
two brothers Otto and Earl, but Jack did series of what-if comics for “Thrilling
Wonder Stories,[/i] including this
Suppose some fourth-dimensional phenomenon catapulted you back to the days of Caesar,
with the possibility of a return to your own twentieth century entirely removed. Equipped
with an elementary understanding of various sciences, how would you capitalize on your
knowledge of future events and discoveries? Could you, with a head-start of two thousand
years, earn a living?
“If—You Were Stranded in Time” by Jack Binder, Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1938.