The next story in Amazing Adventures #1 is “Trespasser in Time,” (art by Alex Schomburg) and in it we are introduced to Tom Graves, star pupil of Professor Jason Arnold. Professor Arnold has created a new compound that, when injected into a test animal, the animal disappears! The Professor stupidly stabs himself with the hypo, disappearing himself, and Graves decides to follow suit to help!
Graves finds himself in a strange, unearthly locale where he is chased by a strange creature into a “stream” that appears to be a constant rainbow of colors, not water! He discovers the Professor in the stream as well, and the Professor says that they're stranded in the fourth dimension, and further says that the stream they're in is the stream of time! Um, right...
Anyway, Graves decides to leave the stream of time, only to encounter that monster again. The Professor says that the tablets in his pocket is their only chance, but before he can take them, the monster touches the professor, aging him instantly to death! Graves reaches for the tablets, but before he can take one, the creature attacks him – but then suddenly, another of the creatures (with a blue instead of red head) appears and attacks the first creature!
The blue creature kills the red one, and Graves takes one of the tablets. He appears in the Professor's lab, and is trying to convince himself it was all a dream, but then a spectral woman appears in front of him, saying that she had touched him just as he was taking the tablets, bringing her with him!
She assumed this new form when she arrived in our dimensional world. She tries to convince Graves to return with her, and she nearly convinces him.... but a clock strikes, and she fades away as two men enter the office. They recognize Graves, but say that the lab had been locked since Graves and the Professor disappeared eight years ago! Graves also notices that half his face has been aged to that of an old man, where the woman had touched him! Graves concludes his tale with the revelation that he plans to return to the other dimension before long!
Next: The Stone Men!
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