The Psychedelic '60s are either a little early or a little late...
...for this never-reprinted 1951 story that took place in the then far-flung future of 2000!
Letting
Edgar go unpunished
despite risking numerous lives was, unfortunately, a typical plot point
both in this series, and in later juvenile space-based comics and tv
shows like
Lost in Space, where, if anyone had
any sense, they would've tossed
Dr Smith out an airlock without a space suit after his first attempt to kill them...
This "trip through the mind's eye" from
Atlas' Space Squadron #5 (1952) was illustrated by
Allen Bellman, one of
Timely/Atlas' in-house staff for over a decade.
He's still around, and will be at San Diego this weekend, so stop by his table!
The
writer is unknown.