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Silver Dome

by Harl Vincent
In an underground city, Queen Phaestra uses a past-viewing machine of vague nature to show the destruction of Atlantis to two good-hearted men. But Atlantis itself is not visited, and there are no time phenomena apart from the viewing.
— Michael Main
This is accomplished by means of extremely complex vibrations penetrating earth, metals, buildings, space itself, and returning to our viewing and sound reproducing spheres to reveal the desired past or present occurrences at the point at which the rays of vibrations are directed.
“Silver Dome” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930.

Wanderer of Infinity

by Harl Vincent
When Joan Carmody sends a plea to her ex-boyfriend Bert Redmond, he barrels from Indiana to upstate New York in a trice, only to see Joan and her borderline-mad brother Tom kidnapped by metal monsters from another dimension. Fortunately, a mourning, immortal wanderer through time and space also sees the abduction and fills in Bert with all the salient details and some unsalient ones, too.
— Michael Main
“We are here only as onlookers,” the Wanderer explained sadly, “and can have no material existence here. We can not enter this plane, for there is no gateway. Would that there were.”
“Wanderer of Infinity” by Harl Vincent, in Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1933.

Journey into Mystery #3

Hands Off!

by an unknown writer and Bill Benulis
Eugene Varo makes a dark deal with a visitor from the past who wants Varo’s perfectly crafted artificial hands. This is the first story in Journey into Mystery to have definite time travel.
— Michael Main
I have come out of the dim past to bargain for those hands . . . and take them back with me . . . they are too beautiful for this age.
“Hands Off!” by an unknown writer and Bill Benulis, in Journey into Mystery #3 (Atlas Comics, October 1952).

Unusual Tales #1

La Caverna del Pasado

by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno
Hoping to sell a big story to his editor, reporter Jim Foster fakes photographs of prehistoric animals in a legendary Latin American cave, but when he takes Professor charles Beaduy to the cave, they find more than what was promised.

The cave does bring together animals and people from different times, but whether any actual time travel occurs is debatable. And before you ask, I don’t know what a mastondia is either.

— Michael Main
Time must have stood still in this region of Earth. Take a picture of this mastondia before it goes for us.
“La Caverna del Pasado” by Joe Gill [?] and Bill Molno, Unusual Tales #1 (Charlton Comics, November 1955).

Journey into Mystery #38

Stone Face!

by an unknown writer and John Giunta
When Richard Dell buys a stone statue and puts it in his side show, he doesn’t realize that aliens turned their compatriot to stone for a good reason centuries ago.
— Michael Main
Step right up, folks! See the wonder of the century!
“Stone Face!” by an unknown writer and John Giunta, in Journey into Mystery #38 (Atlas Comics, September 1956).

Journey into Mystery #39

I Lived Four Times!

by Carl Wessler, Bob Forgione, and Jack Abel
Stefan Orjanski, a Hungarian soldier, is taken by his love to a sorcerer who can help him desert the army, but the help requires first living through part of the lives of four others.
— Michael Main
I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!
“I Lived Four Times!” by Carl Wessler, Bob Forgione, and Jack Abel, in Journey into Mystery #39 (Atlas Comics, October 1956).

Unusual Tales #14

Giant from the Unknown

by Joe Gill [?] and Steve Ditko
While digging a well, farmer John Grainey stumbles upon a buried giant.
— Michael Main
I believe your giant was in some scientific vault from another age [. . .]
“Giant from the Unknown” by Joe Gill [?] and Steve Ditko, Unusual Tales #14 (Charlton Comics, December 1958).

Professor Noah’s Spaceship

by Brian Wildsmith
Professor Noah rescues all the animals from a dying planet, and during their journey of 40 days and 40 nights they plan to travel through a time-zone to take them hundreds of years into the future. At one point, the elephant must take a spacewalk to fix the time-zone guideance fin, which suggests that the time-zone is some sort of a wormhole or other time portal in space rather than mere reletavistic time dilation—and indeed there is actual time travel!
— Michael Main
He put on a special space-suit, went out through the air-lock, and pulled the fin into shape.
Professor Noah’s Spaceship by Brian Wildsmith (Oxford University Press, December 1980).

Himself in Anachron

by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger
Tasco Magnon, time traveler, decides to take his new bride on his next trip through time—a quest to find the mythical Knot in Time—where the two of them get trapped, and only one can return.

After Smith’s death in 1966, the story was completed by his wife, Genevieve Linebarger, and sold to Harlan Ellison’s The Last Dangerous Vision, but that anthology was endlessly delayed. So in 1987, a translated version of the story was published in a French collection of Smith’s stories, and that was the first published version (although we’ve listed it as an English story, since that’s how it was written). The English version was finally published in Smith’s 1993 complete short science fiction collection by NESFA. By then, Ellison’s rights to the story had expired, although that didn’t stop him from suing NESFA.

— Michael Main
‘Honeymoon in time,’ indeed. Why? Is it that your woman is jealous of your time trips? Don’t be an idiot, Tasco. You know that ship’s not built for two.
“Lui-même en Anachron” by Cordwainer Smith and Genevieve Linebarger, in Les puissances de’espace [The powers of space[/em] (Presses Pocket, September 1987).

You Wish (s01e09)

All in the Family Room

by Linda Mathious and Heather MacGillvray, directed by Jeff McCracken
Slighted by his sister, Travis uses Genie’s time travel portal to run away to a pirate ship.
— based on ShareTV
You Wish (s01e09), “All in the Family Room” by Linda Mathious and Heather MacGillvray, directed by Jeff McCracken (ABC-TV, USA, 29 May 1998).

The Magic Tree House 28

High Tide in Hawaii

by Mary Pope Osborne
When Jack and Annie visit Hawaii before any Western influences, Annie is the more natural surfer. They also discover a fourth kind of magic in the everyday world, earning the title of Magicians of Everyday Magic.
— Michael Main
Jack took a deep breath. “I’d like to read a little about surfing first,” he said. He put his board down and pulled out the research book.
High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, March 2003).

Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 18*

Dogs in the Dead of Night

by Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on Merlin’s pet penguin, Penny.
— based on fandom.com
Dogs in the Dead of Night by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, August 2011) [print · e-book].

What If . . . ? [s1e04]

What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews
As we all know, when the world’s formost surgeon, Doctor Strange, lost the use of his hands in a car wreck, it prompted him to search out mystic treatments and eventually become the Master of the Mystic Arts. But what if he had lost something else in that wreck?
— Michael Main
The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
“What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?” by A. C. Bradley, directed by Bryan Andrews, What If . . . ? [s01e04] (Disney+, worldwide, 1 September 2021).

Fusco Brothers, 7 August 2022

Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen

by J. C. Duffy
You’re listening to the soothing sounds of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians . . .
Fusco Brothers, “Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen” by J. C. Duffy, 7 August 2022.
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