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Weird Fantasy #13 (1950)

Only Time Will Tell

Start by reading Heinlein’s “By His Bootstraps” (1941), and then read this one. You’ll enjoy both and stretch your mind around the first ex nihilo idea that we’ve spotted in comic books. Note that the half blueprint itself does have an origin, and you can trace it’s timeline from that origin to the past and back again. It’s only the concept expressed in the blueprint that has no origin. —Michael Main
—are the same piece!
Sitting at a lab bench and twirling knobs on a panel, a scientist talks about a brain on the bench in front of him.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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