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Comic Book

Weird Fantasy #14 (1950)

The Trap of Time!


Physicist Don Hartley has a plan to save his beloved Adele, who died in a car crash on a hot July night. —Michael Main
You will be tampering with tremendous natural forces, Don! It is dangerous! You may unleash some awful catastrophe!
Three startled aliens look down at the Earth while all of Europe erupts in a
                giant mushroom cloud explosion.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Weird Fantasy #15 (1950)

I Died Tomorrow!


When a mad scientist with a time machine gets together with a power-crazed university president, the result is deadly (and time travel aspects of the plot makes little sense). —Michael Main
I licked my lips greedily! I had to have that time-machine!
Three men sit at an elaborate control panel in front of a giant screen of a
                cratered moon.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Weird Fantasy #17 (1951)

The Time Machine and the Shmoe!


Cleaning man Donald Yubyutch is fed up with everyone at the time travel lab thinking he’s nothing but a shmoe. —Michael Main
Please sir, professor, sir! Can I go along with you on the time machine?
In the first of three panels, a group of scientists and engineers discuss their
                newly completed time machine while the cleaner looks on.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #28

They Wouldn’t Believe Him!


To escape a forced marriage, a woman in the future tries to disappear into the pase, but her fiance tracks her down. —Michael Main
I’ll marry you, Everest! But first may I go on a short time-vacation?
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Stop, You’re Killing Me!


Private eye Frank Foley’s latest client claims to have a nearly working time machine that his great great great great grandson is trying to demolish. —Michael Main
At the moment I can’t prove to you that it works. Unless you believe my great great great great grandson really is what I say he is.
A frightened man backs up against a glass booth.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #5

The Man Who Changed Times


A prisoner, Vincent Rand, is offered a way out of his ten-year sentence. —Michael Main
Wouldn’t you prefer being free, even five hundred years in the past, to serving out a ten year sentence in this prison?
In three panels, a man in a green suit makes a proposal to a prisoner about
                travel to the past.
  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite 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
Novel

Jessamy


Visiting with the caretaker of an empty old mansion, orphaned Jessamy emerges from the nursery closet into the world of 1914 when her namesake lived in the same house and left her adventures and a mystery to be solved again in the present. —from publicity material
Somehow I’ve become another Jessamy in a different time! It must be a different time because of the clothes. Nobody wears long skirts like Matchett and Aunt now—I mean that—oh, I don’t know what I mean!
A young girl with long black hair and a red bow kneels at the edge of a
                courtyard.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Undetermined Time Travel
Novelette

Many Mansions

  • by Robert Silverberg
  • in Universe 3, edited by Terry Carr (Random House, October 1973)

With eleven years of marriage behind them, Ted and Alice’s fantasies frequently start with a time machine and end with killing one or another of their spouse’s ancestors before they can procreate. So naturally, they each end up at Temponautics, Ltd. Oh, and Ted’s grandpa has some racy fantasies of his own.
In Silverberg’s Something Wild Is Loose (Vol. 3 of his collected stories), he posits that this story is “probably the most complex short story of temporal confusion” since Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941) or “—All You Zombues—” (1959), but I would respectfully disagree. In particular, I would describe Heinlein’s two stories as the most complex short stories of temporal consistency in that there is but a single, static timeline and (in hindsight) every scene locks neatly into place within this one timeline. By contrast, Silverberg story involves multiple time travel choices by the characters in what I would call parallel universes. The confusion, such as it is, stems more from what appears to be alternate scenes in disconnected universes rather than temporal confusion per se. —Michael Main
On the fourth page Alice finds a clause warning the prospective renter that the company cannot be held liable for any consequences of actions by the renter which wantonly or wilfully interfere with the already determined course of history. She translates that for herself: If you kill your husband’s grandfather, don’t blame us if you get in trouble.
A yellow silhouette of a kneeling person in the bottom have of an hourglass.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Closing the Timelid


Centuries in the future, Orion throws an illicit party in which the partygoers get to experience complete death in the past. —Michael Main
Ah, agony in a tearing that made him feel, for the first time, every particle of his body as it screamed in pain.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Horrid Henry stories 13.2

Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine

  • by Francesca Simon
  • in Horrid Henry and the Mega-Mean Time Machine [four stories] (Orion Children’s Books, 2005)

Henry builds a time machine out of the box that the washing machine arrived in, and he’s his usual horrid self in bringing with his little brother Peter up to speed about the whole thing. —Michael Main
“I’m going to the future and you can’t stop me,” said Peter.
Drawing of a scowling boy strapped into a chair at a panel with multiple
                clocks, switches, and other controls.
  • Mainstream
  • Audience: Children
  • Time Phenomena
Cartoon

Horrid Henry [s01e16]

Horrid Henry’s Time Machine


In the cartoon version of the short story, Henry imagines that his time machine is an elaborate time ship, at least until his perfect little brother brings him out of his daydream and back to the real world of cardboard. —Michael Main
Peter: “I'm going to the future. I want to see it for myself!”
  • Mainstream
  • Audience: Children
  • Time Phenomena
Picture Book

Arthur Travels Back in Time


Arthur the fearless dog travels to different times in a large blue cannister. The story is written in verse that ignores meter and uses rhymes that don’t quite work. —Ruthie Mariner
With sights on events his eyes have never seen, Arthur is ready for his new time machine.
A dog wearing clothes and a red cape leaps onto a cannister-shaped time
                machine.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Da Vinci’s Cat


As a hostage to Pope Julius II in 1511 Rome, 11-year-old Federico is lonely until he receives a visit from a tawny cat, an art collector from the 20th century, and an 11-year-old kid named Bee from the 21st century. —Michael Main
All we need is to get Raphael to draw me and make sure he signs it.
Illustration of part of the Sistine Chapel with left side showing a cat above a
                modern kid climbing a tree and the right side showing the same cat above a medieval
                kid riding a horse.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Flash Fiction

Your Cat


You travel back in time to save your childhood cat in exactly the way that you know she was saved. —Michael Main
You have traveled thirty years back in time to save your cat.
Stylized outline of a rocket launching in a green circular seal for
                Daily Science Fiction.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel