(Fantastic Comics 004, 1940)
Scientist Flip (formerly Flick) Falcon, along with gal pal Adele, usually find themselves contending with problems on the planet Mars thanks to Flip's discovery of interplanetary teleportation based on transit through the Fourth Dimension. In this particular adventure, Flip and Adele flee Mars through a similar device created by Mars' three-armed alien overlords and find themselves not back on the bucolic Earth of 1940 but...
THE FUTURISTIC HELLSCAPE OF 1 001 939 CE! And not only do they find themselves captured by the humans of that far-flung era but those same humans turn out to be a bunch of smug jerks!
These future-jerks follow the familiar sci-fi trope of the species that is all mind, no body BUT instead of taking the more familiar form of a big head with a shrivelled little body, these fellows are regular-sized if emaciated human heads atop bodies that are just skeletons with a bit of skin to hold them together! It's an amazing design choice!
Flip and Adele get away by the simple expedient of removing one of these withered husks from his life support system and blackmailing him into sending them home. It's truly one of the more remarkable sequences in comics history.
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