Have A Crashing New Year!

Ogden Whitney created the lollipop-sucking superhero Fat Fury, so we already know his sense of humor was slightly bent. He was perfect to do the artwork for the strange Silver Age anthology of Forbidden Worlds. Issue 60 has the time-bending tale of The Old And The New starting off in May 1953 as Dick and Millie Voyce get lost in a snowstorm on their way home through New England. They find a house where a roaring soiree is going on and everyone is celebrating New Year's 1957, but they make it out of there just before a plane crashes into it. The Voyces try to prove the accident to a neighbor but all they find at the crash site is an old abandoned house, so they decide to just keep the paranormal encounter to themselves. Cut ahead New Year's Eve 1956 and they get invited to a party at a familiar looking place just as another blizzard hits them. Realizing that they are living a rerun of their prior experience, Dick and Millie trick the party goers to head out into the freezing snow for an impromptu snowball fight just as a plane crashes into the house. After the air clears, reporters think that the Voyces' story was hokey, even though at the end a skeptical round table of occultists debate on whether the whole thing was just a fluke. This pre-Donnie Darko thriller isn't exactly as memorable as the indie flick, but a time paradox caused by a flight accident wasn't too hard for the sci-fi fans of the Silver Age to wrap their heads around.