Strange Tales #109

In "Earth Is Off-Limits!" from Strange Tales #109, a crew of space explorers returns from a distant world brimming with life—only to be cut off mid-transmission when mission control, terrified of alien contamination, refuses to hear their warning. As the line goes silent, the truth remains unsaid: the planet’s lifeforms offer not danger, but immunity and longevity.

In "Time Was..." from Strange Tales #109, a scientist's bold experiment in time travel leads him to a prehistoric world where a single moment of violence sets off a chain of irreversible consequences. When he kills a caveman in self-defense, he discovers too late that the man was his own ancestor—leaving him forever changed, stranded in a past he never meant to alter.