Strange Adventures #44
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Plant That Plotted Murder!", Otto Binder and Gil Kane deliver a twisty sci-fi tale where Willy and Antonius swap lives through time travel, each chasing fortune in wildly different ways. When Willy’s rocketship becomes too heavy with gold and silver, he hides the loot in ancient New Mexico—only to return moments later and witness the devastating flash of an atomic bomb test erasing his cache. Murphy Anderson’s cover captures the moment’s tension, perfectly framing the story’s high-stakes gamble.
In "A Switch in Time!" from Strange Adventures #44, Willy and Antonius trade places through a time-travel mishap, each chasing their own quick fortune in a different era. Willy, stranded in ancient New Mexico, hides a cache of gold and silver to retrieve later—only to arrive just in time to see his hoard erased by the flash of an atomic bomb test.
When Bob and Jim experiment with their mental telepathy radio, they unknowingly drive the whole city to chaotic behavior—until a determined professor races to stop the madness by tracking down Bob and severing the transmitter’s wires.
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Reprinted in Titanes Planetarios #23 (1955), Blackhawk Album #1 (1957), House of Mystery #67 (1957), Mystery in Space #40 (1957), Superboy Annual #1958-59 (1958), Aventures Fiction #3 (1958), Rip Hunter... Time Master #2 (1961), Rip Hunter... Time Master #5 (1961), HIP Comics #1918 (1967), Hit Comics #18 (1967), Mighty Comic #83 (1971), DC Special #19 (1975)
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