Art by Frank Brunner |
Time traveler Karl Glogauer journeys to Palestine almost 2,000 years in the past to confirm the existence of Jesus Christ.
With
his time machine damaged beyond repair and discovering he's gone a
decade too far back, the now-stranded Glogauer encounters John the Baptist...
Published
in the British sci-fi magazine New Worlds (which Moorcock himself edited) in 1966, the
non-linear story running two parallel plot/timelines won the Nebula
Award for "best novella".
Moorcock expanded it to novel length...
Art by Robert Foster |
...and it is that currently OOP version which is best-known to American audiences and served as the basis of this never-reprinted adaptation in Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #6 (1975) by writer Doug Moench and artist Alex Nino.