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Forbidden Worlds #81 (1959)
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In a secluded laboratory, scientist Dr. Asa Wharple is baffled when a mysterious explosion tears open a rift in reality, pulling through Sir Edwin, a knight from a fantastical past who claims to have fled a fire-breathing dragon. As Hepzibah, his dreamy daughter, insists the knight is real, Wharple struggles to reconcile the impossible with his scientific beliefs—especially when the dragon’s fiery breath threatens to breach the barrier between worlds.
In "All the Time in the World!", Jo finds herself caught between a fleeting moment and an impossible choice when Amos promises to show up for their lunch at 12:15—his final chance to make things right. Armed with a strange new watch, he discovers he can stop time itself, but with every pause, the real cost of his second chances begins to unfold.
When Cosmo Ingle’s obsession with sound as a weapon reaches a breaking point, his experiments unleash a series of catastrophic tremors that shake the Dorado Mountains and plunge the nation into panic. As seismic alarms blare and the ground itself begins to fracture, authorities race to find the one man capable of such destruction—only to realize he may already be planning his next, even more devastating move.