Journey into Mystery #42
In "Farley's Other Face!", a man trades time-traveling pills to a prisoner, believing the past is unchangeable—yet the convict discovers he’s doomed to repeat his mistakes, no matter how hard he tries to alter his fate. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Robert Q. Sale, with colors by Stan Goldberg and letters by Joe Letterese, this 1957 tale from Journey into Mystery explores the eerie weight of inevitability. The cover by Bill Everett captures the story’s haunting tension in striking detail.
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A man gives a prisoner time-traveling pills in exchange for the knowledge of where the bank roll is hidden because he knows the past can't be changed. The prisoner thinks he will be able to go back in time and behave differently, so he agrees to the deal, but finds that he does the exact same things and will have to serve his sentence all over again.
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