Uncanny Tales #139
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Doctor Colby's Birds," a scientist’s theoretical time machine becomes a real, dangerous experiment when his envious assistant steals it, only to be stranded in the past as a powerless ghost—unable to change anything, yet trapped in time. Written by Stan Lee and brought to life with striking, eerie precision by Steve Ditko, this 1979 tale from Alan Class explores the weight of ambition and the unseen consequences of tampering with time. The cover, by Dick Giordano and Pat Masulli, captures the story’s haunting tension in bold, dramatic lines.
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A scientist creates a time machine just to prove that it can be done, but never plans to use it, since he knows that it would be too dangerous to attempt to alter the past. His assistant, however, is envious of the fame such a journey would bring and so clouts the scientist on the jaw and takes off in the machine, only to find himself stuck in the past rendered insubstantial by fate like a ghost unable to affect anything.
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