Roy Thomas

writer, creator
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #102

Death Comes to Thor!


Eighteen-year-old Thor seeks out the three prophetic Fates for the answer to whether he shall ever be awarded Odin’s enchanted hammer. —Michael Main
You can win Odin’s enchanted hammer—but you will have to meet death first!
Young Thor, without his hammer, climbs a grassy hill toward a rock outcrop
                where three cloaked figures stir a caldron.
  • Superhero
  • Folklore and Mythology
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Strange Tales #148—150

Kaluu!


When Kaluu triumphantly sends the all-powerful Book of Vishanti back to the time of its origin, it falls to Doc Strange and the Ancient One to banish it to a timeless period so that it will never again fall into the wrong hands. —Michael Main
We approach the time-space continuum of ancient Babylonia— It is there that the book which we seek was created milenniums [sic] ago!
A worried Doctor Strange looks over his shoulder at an evil sorceror who
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Not Brand Echh #2

Magnut, Robot Biter!


Cartoonish Spidey-Man (with his yo-yo on a spidey-web), Ironed Man,
                Gnatman, and others emerge from a grey-walled cave.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Avengers Annual #2

. . . and Time, the Rushing River . . .


After the Scarlet Centurion waylays the Avengers on their way back from the 1940s, they find themselves in an alternative 1968 where the five original Avengers stayed together under the thumb of the Scarlet Centurion.

The story includes flashbacks and previously unknown explanations of the team’s previous trip to the ’40s in Avengers #56, and at the end of the story, Goliath uses Dr. Doom’s Time Platform to banish the Scarlet Centurion back to his time—and we think this is the only time travel that actually appears in the story (apart from the flashbacks). We don’t know what happens to the alternative 1968 (now known as Earth-689, but the traveling Avengers return to the universe that we all knew and loved in the 1960s (a.k.a. Earth-616), with their memory of the whole affair wiped by the Watcher. —Michael Main
Time is like a river! Dam it up at any one point . . . and it has no choice but to flow elsewhere . . . along other, easier routes!
Five Avengers from 1968, led by Goliath and the Wasp, face off against the five
                Avengers as they were in early 1964, led by Giant Man and the Wasp.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Avengers #56

Death Be Not Proud!


Using Doc Doom’s time platform, the tag-3743 } Wasp sends Cap and the other three 1968 Avengers back to observe Bycky Barnes’s death at the hands of Baron Zemo. —Michael Main
That’s just what’s begun to torure me! How can I be sure he’s dead? I saw only a single searing blast! If I somehow survived it . . . couldn’t he have, too?
Standing over Bucky Barnes’s body, an anguished Captain America beseeches a
                higher power.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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
Comic Book

Avengers #69–71

The Epic of Kang vs. the Avengers Nonet!


Kang the Conqueror stands on the shoulder of a giant, grey, robotic man, as
                seven Avengers attack.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

WandaVision


I don't understand this power, but I will.
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  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Cartoon

What If  . . . ? (s1e01)

What If . . . Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?


The Watcher tells us of a universe where a change in a single decision made Peggy Carter (rather than Steve Rogers) become the Allies’ super-soldier. Like Steve, Peggy also manages to find her way into modern times via a technique that’s related to time travel. —Michael Main
Agent Carter, wouldn’t you be more comfortable in the booth?
A mash-up drawing of Hayley Atwell (as Captain Carter, the first super-soldier)
                with parts of Captain America mixed in.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena