Journey into Mystery

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Journey into Mystery #2

Don’t Look!


Yep, the mirror that Harold Whitney got from an odd old man really does let you see what people will look like in the future—a situation that we’d normally mark as a mere time phenomenon and tag as a simple kind of chronoscope. But the story also has a twist at the end that makes me wonder whether the old man was also a time traveler. —Michael Main
I have here a strange invention, a mirror that will let you see how anyone will look at anytime in the future.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #2

The Pact


Frances Conrad learns the dark truth about an unholy pact made by his ancestor from the horse’s mouth itself. —Michael Main
The year is 1693, the month is June, and the day is the fifteenth. Come and watch with me.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #3

Hands Off!


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.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #4

The Bewitched Bike!


When small-time crook Spider steals a time-traveling bike, all he can think to make a profit from it is to rob, murder, and escape to the future. No wonder he’s small-time! —Michael Main
I can be the biggest! I can rob, murder . . . do anything! Then all I have to do is jump on my bike an’ presto, I’m 40 years in the future.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #6

The Man Who Went Back


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!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #8

Time Reversal


A blackmailer demonstrates his ability to send an entire city back to prehistoric times. —Michael Main
We received a note telling us that unless we paid the sum of three million dollars this great city would be taken back to prehistoric days.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #9–10

Zadixx from Dimension X!


Professor Wilbur Thompson is the only human still outside of frozen time[/d]. Oh, yes: He’s also the only human who can save humanity from the Zadixx. —Michael Main
But I’ll restore mankind somehow! I’ll find a way! I swear it!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #13

What Harry Saw


If you (or Harry, of course) should happen to see your wife with another man in your chronoscope, be careful about how you proceed. —Michael Main
I turned on the futurescope and saw her kissing Edmund, a man I work with!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #14

The Man Who Owned a World


Evil stepfather George intercepts a build-a-world kit from the future. —Michael Main
Somewhere in the future, a postal error had been made and a package destined for a yet as unborn grandson had been lost in time and delivered to this house!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #16

The Question!


Computer genius and jealous husband Paul Jessup builds a mechanical brain that can answer any question about the future.  —Michael Main
The brain can foretell events for approximately 24 hours in the future!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #18

The Man Who Went Back!


When Jeff Martin floats downstream, he literally floats back in time. Now, if only those two pesky men would quit following him, —Michael Main
It looks like there was something about that swim in the river that threw me back ten years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #20

The Messenger!


Jeff Calder is a true prankster, but his new messenger, Dal J. Keefe, seems to take every prank without missing a beat. —Michael Main
Messenger, you’re just in time! Recieved a priority order from the top . . . scrounge up a gallow of yellow paint with black stripes.
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #21

The Missing Men


After sailing around the world, the Queen of the Sea returns to port without a sole aboard, and only private investigator Dolan knows why. —Michael Main
It’s incredible! How in the world could all those people disappear in mid-ocean?
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #27

The Man Who Stopped Time!


After George Applby’s proposal is rejected by his fiancée, George stumbles across a stopwatch that freezes time for other people in the vicinity, so naturally he hatches a scheme to use the watch to break up Nancy and her new boyfriend. —Michael Main
I don’t want some other girl! I want Nancy! If only I could stop time!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
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
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #31

Dark Room!


In a Chinese tea shop, thirty-something Andrew Wilson wishes he could do everything all over again so that he wasn’t such a financial failure and Jo Clark would marry him. —Michael Main
If I could just go back to my youth, start over! I wouldn’t make the same mistakes I made then!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #33

There’ll Be Some Changes Made


Paul Haines spends his days stewing over the money his 18th-centery ancestor wasted, until he realizes that there’s a way he can get it. I found the story oddly disquieting in that Paul never really faced punishment for his crime and he got the girl too boot—definitely not the usual weird fiction pattern, although I’ll still tag it that way. —Michael Main
Change the past! Why haven’t I thought of this before? It can be done!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #35

Fallon’s Folly!


Professor Fallon’s research into artificial suns may not be taken seriously today, but there are other times where it could be the very thing that’s needed. —Michael Main
Research has to be along practical lines! The trustees demand it!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #35

The Long Journey


College janitor Tad Sheen has discovered a chemical formula that he believes will take him through time. —Michael Main
Tad was certain that if he mixed ammonia with a chemical he had brewed called Dyproxylin, then heated this mixture in a flask to boiling, chilled it suddenly, you could, by breathing the fumes, project yourself forward in time.
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  • Undetermined
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #35

Turn Back the Clock!


After turning back the hands on the campus clock tower, star athelete Ambrose McCallister finds himself at a stadium in ancient Greece with no memory of who he is. —Michael Main
I saw this move somewhere . . . If I could just remember!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #36

I, the Pharaoh


This story could be a fantasy about Egyptologist Ted Craven, who studies Pharaoh Ras Hati-Ka so deeply that he eventually becomes the ancient Egyptian; but there are clues that the whole story is only a delusion in Craven’s overworked mind. Or perhaps it’s all a dream of the pharaoh himself. —Michael Main
No . . . it’s all an illusion! I’ve been working too hard!
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  • Fantasy
  • Mainstream
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #36

Something Is Happening in There


Yes! They had sf nerds even back in the 1950s, but they called them “born fools.” In this case, the born fool is Ebenezer, who believes that a secretive new stranger is building a time machine. —Michael Main
It’s just like this picture . . . of a time machine!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #37

The Deep Freeze


Fresh off a heist of $150,000, three crooks freeze themselves for 150 years to escape the law. —Michael Main
We were in suspended animation for two hundred years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #38

Stone Face!


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!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #38

Those Who Vanish!


Conman Pete Arlen buys a magic spring that purportedly makes people twenty years younger, and then he unloads it before knowing all the particulars of its magic. —Michael Main
You mean to tell me that the waters of Chi-Na-Nichi actually makes people twenty years younger!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #39

I Lived Four Times!


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!
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  • Fantasy
  • War
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

I Saw a Demon!


When Dr. Morgan succeeds in playing back sound from ancient Egyptian rocks, an ancient Egyptian demon unexpectedly appears. —Michael Main
I forgot! Sounds could be etched on this rock by voices in its vicinity over the ages, since it was first formed!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

The Question That Can’t Be Answered!


Reporter Ned Parker tries to expose a fraudulent hypnotist, but instead he ends up being hypnotized and sent into his look-alike descendant 500 years in the future. —Michael Main
It was Ned who fell under the hypnotic trance . . . and Ned who responded to the commands of Jiminez!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #41

He Came from Nowhere


As a government scientist makes a breakthrough discovery, he’s confronted out of nowhere by a time traveling kidnapper from a future government. —Michael Main
Your work, this house, everything must be destroyed!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #40

The Swirling Mist!


Reporter Jeff Coates is working on a series of articles about the old Mississippi river mansions when he spots a riverboat near the old, dilapidated Waverly plantation. —Michael Main
Peculiar things go on ’round that old mansion!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • No Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #42

He Saw the Future


A bump on the head from a falling (small) bag of concrete gives Harry the ability to see the future in exactly the way he needs. —Michael Main
So it wasn’t too surprising that Harry just happened to be passing by the new building going up when a small bag of cement fell from the second story scaffolding.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #42

Life Sentence!


Leo Sampsom is a four-time thief serving a life sentence. So what has he got to lose when a strange man offers him a pill that will put him back into his own body right before his last theft? —Michael Main
But what if those pills really work? I’d be out of prison . . . free, back twenty years!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #42

The Panhandler


One of the six time travelers who’ve arrived to intervene in Doug Cotter’s panhandling life just seems to know far too much about Doug’s private life. —Michael Main
You haven’t a prison record yet. But you will have . . . unless you let us help you!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #42

While the City Sleeps!


When the police come looking for Zeno the midget who pretends to be a ventriliquist’s dummy, he takes a suspended animation pill to make it seem that he’s a real wooden dummy. —Michael Main
See this pill? I got it from a chemist-pal of mine who’s working on suspended animation!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #45

Look to the Future


Now that Ben Jaremy is the last of the Jaremys, he finds himself reluctant to sell the family farm that he left forty years ago. —Michael Main
There is no money . . . just the house. As the last of the Jaremys, it’s your duty.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #45

A Scream on the Screen


Bert Bates crosses some wires while repairing his TV, and suddenly he and his wife are seeing broadcasts from tomorrow. —Michael Main
Say, that’s the Tuesday Review program! And today is Monday! How could that be?
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #45

What Happened to Harrison


Harrison bets his academics reputation on being able to show that his rival’s claim of sending a man’s subconscious back in time is hooey. —Michael Main
Keep your voice down, Harrison! You might wake Martin, and that would be dangerous! It would alter the past!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #46

The Middle of the Night!


While repairing a watch, Alfred Mott realizes that it can take him back in time, so he heads back to the time of Louis XVI to steal the French crown jewels. —Michael Main
After I repaired it, I tested the our hand by pushing it backward all the way around . . . and today became yesterday!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #47

The Blinding Flash!


In order to retrieve his cigarette lighter from a crime scene, a small-time thief agrees to be a test subject for Professor Mark Hanson’s atom-powered machine that sends an astral projection of a person into the past. Oh, I almost forgot: There’s one other volunteer, too. —Michael Main
Professor Mark Hanson has tus far been unable to get a single person to use his remarkable discovery for recovering the past!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #48

Don’t Turn Around!


Just when two burglars approach his house, reclusie scientist Frank Mulford finishes his time machine to retrieve people from the past. —Michael Main
What a mad idea . . . thinking I could bring people from the past with this machine!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #52

Travelers in Time!


Hollywood writer Norman Crane pitches an idea for a crazy new show to his boss. —Michael Main
Yes sir! It’s a story about time travel . . . time travel and haunted houses!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #53

Beware of Tomorrow!


An unnamed traveler from the future tries to warn scientists of three coming disasters. —Michael Main
Three times I have come to give warnings—to help you, and I have been treated with scorn and ridicule!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #53

The Stranger in Space!


On an intergalactic trip to star group M-19, Frank Mason meets an identical ship coming the other way. —Michael Main
That ship is an X-671, like mine!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #55

I Can Live Forever!


A scientist studying redwoods finds the secret of eternal life. —Michael Main
Now, the elements that sustain the life of the redwoods, will act upon me!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #56

I Brought Zog Back to Life!


Who woulda thunk that a giant alien encased in a giant ice cube would use Latin letters to announce its name to the world? And who woulda thunk that a headstrong scientist would release the beast against the wise counsel of the rest of the world? —Michael Main
Gentlemen, our scientists don’t know why that creature is on our planet. But they do know if he were ever free of that glacier—he could meance our entire world!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #66

The Black Ray


While in prison, Hiram Drudd builds a machine that casts a black ray to send his mind back into a historical figure. —Michael Main
The fool . . . Little does he realize I’m building the instrument for my escape!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #67

The Black Clock!


An ex-con steals a clock and quickly learns that it’ll bring him death if he doesn’t return it to its owner—but doing that would mean another prison sentence. —Michael Main
You mustn’t touch the clock! It’s enchanted! It will put you under a spell!
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  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #58

Zero of Time


Professor Thomas Benton plans to show that reporter, John Pearson, that he knows a lot about time—enough to observe any event in the past or the future. But instead, Benton’s machine hiccups, and they end up with someone who knows even more about time. —Michael Main
And in front of them was an old man. He had a white beard hat almost reached the floor. And he was dressed in a white gown.
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  • Undetermined
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Short Story

Journey into Mystery #60

The Swami


After John McDermott’s uncle dies, John wants to know from the swami now what his uncle’s will holds. —Michael Main
You want me to tell you your future, I presume.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #63

I Took a Journey into Fear!


Otto Bruger’s colleagues try to warn him that traveling through time is courting disaster. —Michael Main
I’ve won, you fools!! Ha, ha . . . I’ve won!!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • No Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #70

A Thousand Years


At the start of a forty-year prison sentence, a man makes a deal with a stranger who offers him his freedom and a thousand years of life. Yeah, like that ever works out. —Michael Main
Man I’d give anything to be free! Anything!!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #71

The Boy Who Vanished!


A lame boy wishes he could go to the future to live the stories in his sci-fi comics. —Michael Main
Maybe—maybe I could travel into the future by thinking myself there.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #74

Forever Is a Long Long Time!


Luther Kane was warned to not apply the sap of the eternal redwoods to himself, but he didn’t listen. —Michael Main
[. . .] all I have to do is remain under the electromagnetic rays for 24 hours . . . and I shall live as long as the redwood trees!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #75

The Magic of Mordoo!


Franz finds Katrina attractive, but he wishes she were younger, so he approaches a Bavarian magician to make her young again. —Michael Main
But I want a young wife--a glamorous one! Not a middle-aged female!
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  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #75

The Man Who Lost the World!


Just when does the professor’s time machine send things to? Nobody knows, so when the prof’s flunky feels poorly treated, he decides to find out on his own. —Michael Main
But if I could find outwhether the machine sends people intothe past or the future, then I would know something even he doesn’t know!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #81

There Dwells a Dragon


Young Tommy’s father steps into a fog at the zoo and emerges in Camelot where there’s a dragon to be slain. —Michael Main
Can it really be that I’ve gone back into . . . the past??!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable 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
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #85

Off-Limits!


A free spirited space explorer decides to visit Planet 6-G despite it being off limits. —Michael Main
Maybe I’ll even be given rights to 6_G as a reward!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #86

On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man


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!
The Mighty Thor flies through a fading time machine with the Tomorrow Man
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #102

Death Comes to Thor!


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!
Young Thor, without his hammer, climbs a grassy hill toward a rock outcrop
                where three cloaked figures stir a caldron.
  • Superhero
  • Folklore and Mythology
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #103

To Live Forever!


Luther Gorr realizes that others have been barking up the wrong tree when it comes to trying to use redwood sap for eternal life. But will his solution be any better than in the previous stories told by Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, and others? —Michael Main
This bark is from a redwood that’s stood for five thousand years! But no matter what tests I subject it to, I’m unable to unearth its longevity factor!
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Time Phenomena