Fiction House's Jumbo Comics had one of its standouts featuring character Stuart Taylor in a segment titled Weird Tales Of The Supernatural, which is very odd because it had nothing to do with the supernatural but was instead sci-fi themed. Jack Kirby first created this ongoing story about the assistant of scientist Dr. Hayward who invented a time machine which Stuart would frequently use to go back to different points in time much like Mr. Peabody. Instead of a little boy for a sidekick, Stuart was usually joined at the hip to Hayward's lovely daughter Laura who would always become jealous when he made out with past temptresses like Cleopatra(which he does in two separate occasions). There was a 3-part story where Stuart Taylor keeps going from 1946 to 1975 in one his few missions into the future. He knocks phony agent R.J. Norton into the time machine sending him ahead three decades. Stuart finds that all the buildings float above the ground and everybody dresses like it is a day at the beach with guys in shorts and girls in bikinis. Stuart serendipitously comes across plans for world domination carelessly blown out the window from a secret group of Nazis still around in the future and lead by someone bearing an uncanny resemblance to their head honcho. Hitler 2.0 is about to shoot Taylor when Dr. Hayward brings him back to the past at the last moment, meaning Taylor has to go "back to the future" this time wearing trunks to blend in. His return involves a humorous trip on a motorized kid's tricycle while being chased by skimpy future femmes. Stuart tracks down Norton who has signed up with the Neon-Nazis that capture the time travelling hero and banish him to be executed in the North Pole which in this time has been turned into a fertile valley thanks to advanced climate control. Taylor gets his final meal served as concentrated food capsules, but Hitler's buxom girlfriend instantly falls in love and rescues him. She shows Stuart how to set the climate controls to freeze to death all the Nazis, supposedly including Norton, as he and Ms. Hitler journey back the past. The entire last chapter of this Nazi-smashing epic has Hitler's ex kidnapping Stuart to return to 1975 where they end up in the Arabian desert surrounded by giant butterflies. The former Nazi bimbette is kidnapped by brigands, so Stuart borrows a wandering ice cream salesman's ostrich and then rides a flying subway to catch up with his unnamed floozy as he rescues her from white slavers. Stuart returns to the past hoping to take out Laura to a flower show only to find out that the event had already passed two days ago, which really seems to negate the point of a working time machine. Despite being drawn by the legendary Jack Kamen, these weird tales of the supernatural were more like tales of a horny Time Lord farting around history.
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