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Journey into Mystery #86

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man

by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Zarrko, a mad time-machine-building scientist from 2262, believes that our nuclear weapons will enable him to take over the world of his time. He comes back to 1962 to steal one, and the Mighty Thor pursues him back to 2262.

The plot suffers from Alpha Centauri syndrome, where the time traveler might as well be from Alpha Centauri as from the future, but seeing the emergence of Kirby’s high-perspective artwork gives this issue a boost. In addition, the story provides a powerful image of the pre-Vietnam cold war era and its prevailing assumptions about the roles of women in society.

— Michael Main
Ahhh—an ancient explosion of a nuclear bomb! The perfect device with which to conquer the twenty-third century!

“On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man” by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, in Journey into Mystery 86 (Marvel Comics, November 1962).

Journey into Mystery #102

Death Comes to Thor!

by Roy Thomas and Bill Everett

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!

“Death Comes to Thor!” by Roy Thomas and Bill Everett, in Journey into Mystery 102 (Marvel Comics, March 1964).

Avengers #11, December 1964

The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man

by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Chic Stone

This story is as close as Spidey ever got to time traveling in the Silver Age. He didn’t travel himself, but he did meet and battle Kang’s time traveling Spider-Man robot. On top of that, Don Heck gave us his interpretations of Ditko art taken from the pages of the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. Can you tell which is which?
Spider-Man! Well, much obliged to you, fella! I never knew you were so . . . cooperative!

“The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man” by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Chic Stone, in The Avengers 11, December 1964.

Avengers Annual #2

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

by Roy Thomas, Don Heck, and Werner Roth

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!

. . . And Time, the Rushing River . . .” by Roy Thomas, Don Heck, and Werner Roth, in The Avengers Annual 2 (Marvel Comics, September 1968).

Marvel Cinematic Universe 14

Doctor Strange

by Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill, directed by Scott Derrickson

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
— from publicity material
Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.

Doctor Strange by Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill, directed by Scott Derrickson (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Hong Kong, 13 October 2016).

Marvel Cinematic Universe 19

Avengers: Infinity War

by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

Given that the Time Stone is a key element to Thanos’s master plan, you’d think that time travel would play a major part in this movie, but not so. Doc Strange does use the stone to view a slew of possible futures, but we know that’s not actually time travel. So where does the time travel come into play? Pay close attention to the final thirteen minutes of the film, after Strange announces “We’re in the end game now,” and you’ll spot one definite time travel moment and a second possible moment.
— Michael Main
Tony, there was no other way.

Avengers: Infinity War by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 23 April 2018).

Loki, Season 1

by Michael Waldron et al, directed by Kate Herron

Hang on to your Tesseracts! Apparently, in Endgame[/em], when the Avengers traveled back to 2012 to swipe various things from the 2012 Avengers, they inadvertantly started a branch in time where Loki ended up with the Tesseract. Of course, once that occurred, the Time Variance Authority quickly spotted him as a Deviant and quickly recruited him to help in their fight against even more deviant Deviants.
— Michael Main
Appears to be a standard sequence violation. Branches growing at a stable rate and slope. Variant identified.

Loki, Season 1 by Michael Waldron et al, directed by Kate Herron (Disney+, worldwide, 9 June 2021 to 14 July 2021 [6 episodes]).

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