Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1962
- On sale
- November 16, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Secret of the Ancient Seer, Chapter 1 · 8.67 pages
A European cabinet sends Rip back to the year 798 to try to get more details on a seer's prediction of the destruction of an island in the present day. When they find the man, he tells them that the predictions in his book were translated from an even older manuscript.
- [The Secret of the Ancient Seer] Chapter 2: The Doomed City · 8.67 pages
In the year 79, Rip locates the seer Sejanus, who was expecting him and captures him. Rip gets a look at his book of predictions, and Sejanus tells him that a time traveler from 2025 provided him with the material in the book, and also warned him that another time traveler would witness his doom. Rip escapes and takes off for the present.
- Untitled · 0.5 pages
Moolah tries to help another man to walk on hot coals.
- Victory Without a Fight · 1 pages
The story of the Battle of Tours in the year 732.
- [The Secret of the Ancient Seer] Chapter 3: The Menace of the Meteorite · 6.67 pages
Back in the present, Rip knows that the island to be obliterated is off the northern coast of Norway, but not which one. But he knows that one of them houses a stockpile of a top-secret chemical explosive, so they head there and save the explosive before the island is hit by a meteorite.
Characters
Reprinted in
52: The Companion (2007), Showcase Presents: Rip Hunter, Time Master (2012)