The Man on the Beach
- by unknown writers and Bill La Cava
- in Strange Tales #4 (Atlas Comics, December 1951)
You are 5,000 years in the Earth’s future!
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You are 5,000 years in the Earth’s future!
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I’ve worked and slaved for twenty years as a scientist to find a means of traveling through time.
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We were no more than ten miles from the airport in the “hub,” when suddenly the plan shot ur . . straight up!
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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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The year is 1693, the month is June, and the day is the fifteenth. Come and watch with me.
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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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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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You’ve got to stop the bus . . . turn around or we’ll all soon be dead of old age!
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“I wonder what killed it?” Hafton wondered curiously, cutting swiftly through the thick masses of mastodon meat.
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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!
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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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But I’ll restore mankind somehow! I’ll find a way! I swear it!
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I turned on the futurescope and saw her kissing Edmund, a man I work with!
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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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The brain can foretell events for approximately 24 hours in the future!
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It looks like there was something about that swim in the river that threw me back ten years!
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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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It’s incredible! How in the world could all those people disappear in mid-ocean?
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I don’t want some other girl! I want Nancy! If only I could stop time!
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I’ll marry you, Everest! But first may I go on a short time-vacation?
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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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Change the past! Why haven’t I thought of this before? It can be done!
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I am a scanner, a man whose job it is to scan the past, to find any small occurrence which might change the future world!
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Research has to be along practical lines! The trustees demand it!
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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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I saw this move somewhere . . . If I could just remember!
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No . . . it’s all an illusion! I’ve been working too hard!
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It’s just like this picture . . . of a time machine!
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Here is a chart of the fifty outstanding brians in our country! You will notice that thirty-two have disappeared to date!
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If I could live the past thrity years over I’d not make the same mistakes!
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We were in suspended animation for two hundred years!
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Step right up, folks! See the wonder of the century!
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You mean to tell me that the waters of Chi-Na-Nichi actually makes people twenty years younger!
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I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!
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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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It was Ned who fell under the hypnotic trance . . . and Ned who responded to the commands of Jiminez!
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Peculiar things go on ’round that old mansion!
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Your work, this house, everything must be destroyed!
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When Ernst materialized again, he found himself in familiar surroundings! He realized it was his own town, but there was something different . . .
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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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But what if those pills really work? I’d be out of prison . . . free, back twenty years!
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You haven’t a prison record yet. But you will have . . . unless you let us help you!
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The eye says I won’t get caught . . . and it is never wrong!
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See this pill? I got it from a chemist-pal of mine who’s working on suspended animation!
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There is no money . . . just the house. As the last of the Jaremys, it’s your duty.
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Say, that’s the Tuesday Review program! And today is Monday! How could that be?
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Keep your voice down, Harrison! You might wake Martin, and that would be dangerous! It would alter the past!
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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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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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They can not hang me now, Annette! I have all the time in the world to escape from this island!
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I just left Novitch this morning! How could he have been arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced, all in one day?
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What a mad idea . . . thinking I could bring people from the past with this machine!
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Yes sir! It’s a story about time travel . . . time travel and haunted houses!
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Three times I have come to give warnings—to help you, and I have been treated with scorn and ridicule!
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That ship is an X-671, like mine!
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Now, the elements that sustain the life of the redwoods, will act upon me!
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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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The fool . . . Little does he realize I’m building the instrument for my escape!
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You mustn’t touch the clock! It’s enchanted! It will put you under a spell!
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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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You want me to tell you your future, I presume.
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I’ve won, you fools!! Ha, ha . . . I’ve won!!
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