The Time Machine

The Time Machine (1984, Academic Industries) is a single-issue comic adaptation of H.G. Wells's classic science-fiction novel, published during the early 1980s boom in licensed literary comics. While the series itself is brief, it represents a modest effort to bring a foundational time-travel narrative to the comic-book medium, capturing the Victorian-era journey of a nameless inventor into a far-future world. Its significance lies in its status as a straightforward, period-specific retelling of a seminal work, offering a snapshot of how publishers approached classic literature in the direct market era.