Larry Lieber

writer, artist, creator
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #55

I Can Live Forever!

A scientist studying redwoods finds the secret of eternal life. —Michael Main
Now, the elements that sustain the life of the redwoods, will act upon me!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #56

I Brought Zog Back to Life!

Who woulda thunk that a giant alien encased in a giant ice cube would use Latin letters to announce its name to the world? And who woulda thunk that a headstrong scientist would release the beast against the wise counsel of the rest of the world? —Michael Main
Gentlemen, our scientists don’t know why that creature is on our planet. But they do know if he were ever free of that glacier—he could meance our entire world!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #66

The Black Ray

While in prison, Hiram Drudd builds a machine that casts a black ray to send his mind back into a historical figure. —Michael Main
The fool . . . Little does he realize I’m building the instrument for my escape!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #67

The Black Clock!

An ex-con steals a clock and quickly learns that it’ll bring him death if he doesn’t return it to its owner—but doing that would mean another prison sentence. —Michael Main
You mustn’t touch the clock! It’s enchanted! It will put you under a spell!
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  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #70

A Thousand Years

At the start of a forty-year prison sentence, a man makes a deal with a stranger who offers him his freedom and a thousand years of life. Yeah, like that ever works out. —Michael Main
Man I’d give anything to be free! Anything!!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #71

The Boy Who Vanished!

A lame boy wishes he could go to the future to live the stories in his sci-fi comics. —Michael Main
Maybe—maybe I could travel into the future by thinking myself there.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #74

Forever Is a Long Long Time!

Luther Kane was warned to not apply the sap of the eternal redwoods to himself, but he didn’t listen. —Michael Main
[. . .] all I have to do is remain under the electromagnetic rays for 24 hours . . . and I shall live as long as the redwood trees!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #75

The Magic of Mordoo!

Franz finds Katrina attractive, but he wishes she were younger, so he approaches a Bavarian magician to make her young again. —Michael Main
But I want a young wife--a glamorous one! Not a middle-aged female!
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  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #81

There Dwells a Dragon

Young Tommy’s father steps into a fog at the zoo and emerges in Camelot where there’s a dragon to be slain. —Michael Main
Can it really be that I’ve gone back into . . . the past??!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #85

Filbert’s Frightful Future

Mad scientist Filbert Phelps wants to use his time machine to become the richest man in the world, —Michael Main
Yes, I am a genius . . . and that’s why I’m about to become fabuously rich! Just as soon as I finish my greatest invention . . .
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #86

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man

Zarrko, a mad time-machine-building scientist from 2262, believes that our nuclear weapons will enable him to take over the world of his time. He comes back to 1962 to steal one, and the Mighty Thor pursues him back to 2262.

The plot suffers from Alpha Centauri syndrome, where the time traveler might as well be from Alpha Centauri as from the future, but seeing the emergence of Kirby’s high-perspective artwork gives this issue a boost. In addition, the story provides a powerful image of the pre-Vietnam cold war era and its prevailing assumptions about the roles of women in society. —Michael Main
Ahhh—an ancient explosion of a nuclear bomb! The perfect device with which to conquer the twenty-third century!
The Mighty Thor flies through a fading time machine with the Tomorrow Man inside.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #103

To Live Forever!

Luther Gorr realizes that others have been barking up the wrong tree when it comes to trying to use redwood sap for eternal life. But will his solution be any better than in the previous stories told by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, and others? —Michael Main
This bark is from a redwood that’s stood for five thousand years! But no matter what tests I subject it to, I’m unable to unearth its longevity factor!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Marvel Super-Heroes #20

This Man . . . This Demon!

A full-page Doctor Doom raises his arms in triumph over a backdrop of dozens of red, orange, and yellow moons and stars.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe 19

Avengers: Infinity War

Given that the Time Stone is a key element to Thanos’s master plan, you’d think that time travel would play a major part in this movie, but not so. Doc Strange does use the stone to view a slew of possible futures, but we know that’s not actually time travel. So where does the time travel come into play? Pay close attention to the final thirteen minutes of the film, after Strange announces “We’re in the end game now,” and you’ll spot one definite time travel moment and a second possible moment. —Michael Main
Tony, there was no other way.
A giant Josh Brolin (as Thanos) stands proudly behind a determined Robert Downey Junior (as Iron Man) and the rest of the Avengers.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe 22

Avengers: Endgame

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store. —from publicity material
Chris Evans (as Captain America) solumnly raises his shield to the sky.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Loki, Season 1

Hang on to your Tesseracts! Apparently, in Endgame, when the Avengers traveled back in time to swipe various things from the 2012 Avengers, they inadvertantly started a branch in time where Loki ended up with the Tesseract. Of course, once that occurred, the Time Variance Authority spotted him as a Variant and quickly recruited him to help in their fight against even more variant Variants. —Michael Main
Appears to be a standard sequence violation. Branches growing at a stable rate and slope. Variant identified.
Tom Hiddleston (as Loki) stands with his arms crossed and an annoyed look on his face, in front of a large analog clock with multiple hands.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel