Strange Tales

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Strange Tales #4

The Man on the Beach

A couple on the beach talk with an absent-minded beachcomber, Robert Gordon, who claims that only he can save the world from being wiped out by a backwash from the future. —Michael Main
You are 5,000 years in the Earth’s future!
In the first large panel of the page, a giant hand drops off a scruffy man on an outcropping of rocks, where he is greeted by a couple of beachgoers.
  • Science Fiction
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Strange Tales #5

The Room without a Door

Henry believes that his life’s work to travel through time has all been for naught, so he turns to black magic instead. —Michael Main
I’ve worked and slaved for twenty years as a scientist to find a means of traveling through time.
An old man delivers a frantic monolog to himself in a room decorated with symbols of black magic.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Strange Tales #5

The Trap

After parachuting from the edge of space, Hugh Kane finds himself a month in his future. —Michael Main
We were no more than ten miles from the airport in the “hub,” when suddenly the plan shot ur . . straight up!
In the large panel, a puzzled man stands, surrounded by talking heads.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Strange Tales #20

The World I Lost

World renowned scientists Adam Tyler is ready to marry his sweetheart, but not until he determines whether the future is any place to raise a family.
—Michael Main
Go into the future! It’s not impossible . . . with my knowledge of relativity and time warps . . . I could project myself into a predetermined time of the future!
In three panels, eminent physicist Adam Tyler bemoans the state of a world on the verge of atomic war.
  • Undetermined
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
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Strange Tales #111

Face-to-Face with the Magic of Baron Mordo!

Steve Ditko’s second-ever story of the master of the mystic arts includes one panel that, based on Stan Lee’s caption, involves time travel. Even though it was just one panel, it got me wondering whether the phrase race through time could possibly have a meaning. What would it mean for one time traveler to arrive at the final destination before another? Isn't the whole set up kind of like Doc Strange saying to Baron Mordo, “I’ll bet I can think of a number bigger than you can.” —Michael Main
Unseen by human eyes, the two mighty spirit images race thru time and space . . .
Doctor Strange and Baron Mordo sit entranced beside the Ancient One, while above them, their spirit images battle.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Cameo Time Travel
Comic Book

Strange Tales #148—150

Kaluu!

When Kaluu triumphantly sends the all-powerful Book of Vishanti back to the time of its origin, it falls to Doc Strange and the Ancient One to banish it to a timeless period so that it will never again fall into the wrong hands. —Michael Main
We approach the time-space continuum of ancient Babylonia— It is there that the book which we seek was created milenniums [sic] ago!
A worried Doctor Strange looks over his shoulder at an evil sorceror who
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel