Adventures into the Unknown #71 (1956)

When American tourist Alex Harris visits Marston Castle, a crumbling museum near London, he’s stunned by an eerie familiarity with the place—and even more so when he discovers a portrait of Sir Charles Marston that looks exactly like him. Jane Thackeray, a local woman who recognizes him from an old book, helps him uncover a series of uncanny connections, including a plaster cast of Marston’s hand that matches his own palm lines perfectly. As the mystery deepens, the line between past and present begins to blur in ways that defy explanation.

Joey Manners, a young man who once found a mysterious bottle as a child, is stranded at sea after his plane crashes during World War II, forcing him to write a desperate note and seal it in the same bottle decades later—only to be rescued and return home to discover the note he wrote is identical to the one he once found. His family’s long-kept curiosity now holds a chilling echo of his own lost words, blurring the line between past and present in a moment of bewildering recognition.

Jo, a young woman with a mysterious past, arrives at a remote cabin seeking work, only to find herself entangled in a strange, unsettling situation. As she tries to make sense of her new surroundings, she discovers that the man who hired her may not be who he claims to be.

In the isolated lighthouse off Massachusetts, solitary keeper John Tucker is haunted by feverish dreams and the echoes of the sea—until a storm strands a ship of 17th-century Pilgrims on the reef, seemingly real. As the survivors take refuge with him, Tucker struggles to reconcile their presence with his own sanity, only to face a new shock when a pirate ship, commanded by the infamous André Duprez, arrives seeking treasure.

Jo, a high school student with a passion for baseball, struggles to hit the ball despite his father’s legacy as a legendary outfielder. When he’s told he might still make the team as a fielder, he’s distracted by a magazine ad for a jet rocket spaceship, briefly imagining a different kind of glory.