Rocco “Rocke” Mastroserio

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Comic Book

Unusual Tales #9

The Day I Lived Over Again

While on the lam, hardened criminal Blackie Nelson gets a chance to live the day over—and this time he plans to evade the police and win the girl! —Michael Main
The day’s starting over again! This doll’s going to fall for me . . . Only this time I’m going to work things different!
In the large first panel, a man in a business suit stands in front of a larger version of himself as a caveman.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Unusual Tales #11

Noise in the Cellar

Once again, a plumber receives an emergency call from 12 Hedge Row. —Michael Main
Will you come right over? My water heater looks dangerous!
In May of 1915, a woman asks her husband to go into the cellar to check out a strange noise.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory. —Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
In the first of three panels, a modern man sits in a chair with his cap attached to electrical equipment as an ancient woman and two men look on.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Unusual Tales #30

A Small Matter of Time

The title suggests that Professor Amos Shute’s intrepid travelers are going back in time to four planets that are identical in every way to our own, but then again, perhaps those four planets were merely at earlier times to begin with. We won’t say one way or another, but we are glad that the Spanish Flu pandemic, World War I, World War II, and World War III were all averted on some Earth. —Michael Main
In what time period will you find yourselves when you land at your particular destinatoin!
In two large panels with spaceships and a large model of Earth, Professor Amos Shute explains a mission to four space pilots.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
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Unusual Tales #33

Death of a Hot Rod

After high school, young Joe Bragan is offered a job driving his hot rod around the deserts of Libya. —Michael Main
He looks for real! So does the chariot!
A nineteen-sixties teen drives a blue hot rod with a Saracen chief in the back toward a Roman legion.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel