Journey into Mystery #35

The Long Journey

by unknown writers

• Release: June 1956
• Format: Short Story
• Genres: None
• Audience: YA and Up
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Tad was certain that if he mixed ammonia with a chemical he had brewed called Dyproxylin, then heated this mixture in a flask to boiling, chilled it suddenly, you could, by breathing the fumes, project yourself forward in time.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1700 to 1799: near the founding of Randolph Tech, circa 1760
• Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Tad’s time, 1956

Timeline Models

• Single Naive Timeline

Time Travel Methods

• Hypnosis, Potions, and Drug-Induced Travel: Tad’s brew

Real-World Tags

• Indigenous Americans: stereotyped

Groupings

• Atlas Comics (franchise)
• Journey into Mystery (comic book): #35 (June 1956)

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

• We don’t know why Tad happens to go back into another janitor, also named Tad.