Silver Streak Comics
by Jack Cole et al.
Jack Cole, the Playboy cartoonist, must have been a little boy when he wrote the
adventures of Boy Inventor Dickie Dean. Dickie’s inventions included a machine to
capture conversations from the past (Silver Streak Comics 3), a time camera
(probably in issue 10). You could argue that neither of these is real time travel, but
never mind.
I’ll bet there was more time travel in various of the comics published by Lev Gleason, but I haven’t yet tracked them down.
Without getting technical, this is a “time camera”! It is possible to reconstruct and
photogaph scenes of the past with this machine!
“Silver Streak Comics” by Jack Cole et al. (Dickie Dean in
Silver Streak 3, March 1940).