Adventures into the Unknown #94
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Repair Shop!", a lonely old repairman haunted by past regrets is handed a strange gift: broken figurines that mirror his younger self at different moments in time. With no explanation, he begins restoring them—each piece a fragile echo of a life he once lived. Art by John Forte, with a striking cover by Ogden Whitney, this 1958 tale from the American Comics Group blends quiet melancholy with a touch of the uncanny.
In "The Repair Shop!" from *Adventures into the Unknown* #94 (1958), a lonely old repairman is given a strange second chance when a mysterious stranger hands him a set of broken figurines—each a shattered mirror of himself at different ages. As he begins to mend them, the past starts to whisper back, blurring the line between what’s fixed and what’s lost.
Professor Harvey Shane's weekend duck hunt takes an extraordinary turn when he shoots down a carrier pigeon bearing an ancient Greek message—one that carbon-14 dating suggests is over 2,300 years old. As the university's scholars puzzle over the impossible artifact, Shane wrestles with the only explanation that seems to fit the facts, leading to a mind-bending mystery that defies simple answers.
In "Fog and Fantasy!" from Adventures into the Unknown #94 (1958), a doctor is summoned by a boat captain during a thick, silent fog to perform emergency surgery on a mysterious patient. What begins as a routine rescue takes a chilling turn when the doctor arrives at the hospital—only to realize the patient is the very man who brought him across the storm-lashed sea.
Three young engineers on a casual uranium-hunting expedition stumble upon an oasis in the Nevada desert—and beneath it, a fortune in gold dust. But Joe's earlier mushroom-induced hallucination proves unnervingly accurate, and as the trio celebrates their unexpected wealth, another vision forces Joe to question the loyalty of his lifelong friends Mike and the third engineer. Greed and suspicion threaten to unravel everything in this 1958 tale of "Mushroom Madness!"
Young hitchhikers Tommie Burns and Al Foster pick up a ride during a sudden rainstorm, only to witness something that causes their rescuers to lose control of the car with fatal consequences. Years later, now grown men with lives and families of their own, the two friends embark on another camping trip—and find themselves caught in an eerily familiar sequence of events that refuses to break its pattern.
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Reprinted in Forbidden Worlds #109 (1963), Forbidden Worlds #121 (1964), Astounding Stories #14 (1967), Astounding Stories #149 (1980), Creepy Worlds #197 (1980), The Adventures of John Doe #1 (2003), PS Artbooks Softee: Adventures into the Unknown #16 (2021), Adventures into the Unknown #7, Astounding Stories #74, Uncanny Tales #14
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