Journey into Mystery #33
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Flame That Burned a Thousand Years!", a desperate man’s envy of a wealthy ancestor drives him to construct a time-and-space machine—only to discover that even vast riches mean nothing across the ages. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Steve Ditko, this 1956 tale from Journey into Mystery #33 blends sci-fi wonder with a quiet, haunting reflection on value and legacy. The cover by Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos captures the story’s eerie, otherworldly tone.
In "There'll Be Some Changes Made," a man haunted by the gulf between his own poverty and the fortune of a long-dead ancestor constructs a device to bring that wealth forward—only to discover that even time and space can't make money mean anything when the world has moved on.
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Reprinted in World of Mystery #7 (1957), Secrets of the Unknown #2 (1962), Curse of the Weird #4 (1994), Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius #[nn] (2008), The Steve Ditko Archives #2 (2010), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey into Mystery #4 (2012), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus #1 (2019), Marvel Comics - La collection #216 (2022), Atlas Artist Edition #2 (2024), Gespenster Geschichten #1086, Misterios del Gato Negro #62, Secrets of the Unknown #5
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