Sinister Tales #143

Adam Gree, a man driven by ambition and disdain for the present, invests everything into a machine that promises a one-way leap to the year 2001—where he believes he’ll find a world free of disease, war, and poverty. But when the device activates, he discovers the cost of his haste: his body ages forty years in an instant, and there’s no way back.

In a backstage twist of fate, Joel, a stagehand in a production of Cyrano De Bergerac, dons the leading man’s makeup to win the affection of the actress, Sheridan. When she rejects his kiss, claiming she’s in love with the stagehand, Joel realizes too late that the mask he wears may be more than just theatrical—his own identity begins to slip away.