Comic Strip
Uncle Wombat’s Tock-Tock Time Machine
- by Bill Walsh and Floyd Gottfredson
- 22 October 1951 to 22 January 1952 [newspaper syndication]
Time Vehicles (motorized)
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Comic Book
The Man Who Went Back
- by Carl Wessler and Sam Kweskin
- Journey into Mystery #6 (Atlas Comics, March 1953)
A man on death row murders his guards and escapes, getting on an odd bus where everyone is rapidly aging. And when he demands to be taken back, that’s when the real fun begins. —Michael Main
You’ve got to stop the bus . . . turn around or we’ll all soon be dead of old age!
Comic Book
Where Does It Go?
- by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia
- Unusual Tales #29 (Charlton Comics, August 1961)
J. L . Standish finds himself unexpectedly on a flying bus to the future where the automata have a job for him. —Michael Main
Comic Book
The Mad Pharoah!
- by Stan Lee, Robert Bernstein, and Don Heck
- in Tales of Suspense 44 (Marvel Comics, August 1963)
Iron Man’s suit changes from grey to gold, and the golden Avenger is kidnapped and taken back to ancient Egypt where he upsets the plans of the consistently misspelled Mad Pharoah by winning the throne back for Cleopatra. —Michael Main
Novelette
Bank and Shoal of Time
- by R. A. Lafferty
- in A Spadeful of Spacetime, edited by Fred Saberhagen (Ace Books, February 1981)
Peter Luna brings five “time attempter” experts to his estate, hoping that he’ll be able to pass on his secret for getting over the time shoal that prevents them from exploring the past. —Michael Main
"I have succeeded in establishing a creeping time-satellite or time-shuttle at my estate of Moonwick near Lunel in the Herault Department of the Peoples Republic of France. If you are really experts in your field, you will appreciate the importance of this. From this time-shuttle, which is just beyond the ‘shoal’ of all of you to whom I am sending this message, it will be possible for you to launch genuine time probes. I am sending this to a dozen or so and I hope for acceptance from at least five. I must have a matched set of at least five. Some soon. A very little bit after ‘soon’ will be too late for me to transmit the shuttle to you. Bring ideas only. Everything else for frugal and break-through living is provided. You will receive various transportation chits and enabling papers. Peter Luna.”
The World Courier Service (“No questions asked. Messages carried anywhere or anywhen in the world”) delivered these messages to the dozen or so persons who were experts in the time field. And some of the people gave assent and some didn’t. So, the next day, the Courier Service delivered airline tickets, train tickets, and International Taxi Coupons to five of the experts who had agreed to go to Moonwick.
Feature Film
Back to the Future
- by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
- (at movie theaters, USA, 3 July 1985)
Typical skateboarding teenager Marty McFly meets Doc Brown for the first test of his DeLorean time machine, but when Libyan terrorists strike, things go awry, Marty and the DeLorean end up in 1955 where his parents are teens, and the Doc of 1955 must now send Marty back to the future. —Michael Main
- Eloi Gold Medal
- 1986 Hugo
- Science Fiction
- Audience: YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
Feature Film
Back to the Future II
- by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
- (at movie theaters, USA, 22 November 1989)
Doc Brown takes Marty and Jennifer from 1985 to 2015 to save their children from a bad fate, but the consequences pile up when Biff also gets in on the time-travel action. —Michael Main
Feature Film
Back to the Future III
- by Bob Gale, directed by Robert Zemeckis
- (at movie theaters, USA, 25 May 1990)
Marty and 1955-Doc travel back to the Old West where 1985-Doc is trapped along with various Biff ancestors and a possible love interest for Doc. —Michael Main
Short Story
This Must Be the Place
- by Elly Bangs
- in Strange Horizons, 2 February 2009
At a bar, Andrea meets a loopy man who seems to already know her; he leaves a mysterious message on a napkin, which turns out to be a hint about their next meeting where the man is younger and no longer knows her. —Michael Main
Feature Film
A Million Ways to Die in the West
- by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild, directed by Seth MacFarlane
- (premiered at Fox Theater, Westwood Village, Los Angeles, 15 May 2014)
Doc Brown: Wa . . . uoh.
Albert: What’s uh . . . what’s that?
Doc Brown: [hastily covering the DeLorean] Nothing! Wa . . . uh, it . . . [nods head] it’s a weather experiment.
Albert: Oh. [leaves]
Doc Brown: Great Scott!
TV Series
내가 이 나라의 평강공주다
Diva actress Song Soo-jung drives off in a huff in her manager’s VW van—Boing Boing—only to find herself in the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo where she meets characters from her historical TV show including the real Princess Pyeonggang and the roguish hero On-Dal. —Michael Main
Feature Film
Out of Time
- written and directed by Matt Handy
- (unknown release details, 2019)
A government agent from 1951 follows three alien invaders through a time portal to 21st-century Lost Angeles where he teams up with a local cop to track the trio down before they can signal their cohorts. —Michael Main
Early Chapter Book
Super Rabbit Boy’s Time Jump!
- by Thomas Flintham
- (Branches, September 2020) [print · e-book]
A superhero rabbit from a low-resolution handheld video game fights his arch-nemesis, King Viking, who plans to stop Baby Rabbit Boy from ever getting superpowers. —Michael Main
Short Story
A Smell of Jet Fuel
- by Andrew Dana Hudson
- in Lightspeed 134, July 2021 [Webzine accessed at https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/july-2021-issue-134/ on 28 July 2021.]
On the 107th floor of the South Tower on 9/11, time travel tour guide Brad Eckelson meets Sitra Velasco, a woman who couldn’t possibly be there. —Michael Main
