Back to the Future "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!" Part 5 Back to the Future: Tales from the Time Train #5 IDW Story by Bob Gale and John Barber Script by John Barber Art by Megan Levens Colors by Charlie Kirchoff Letters by Shawn Lee Cover A by Megan Levens April 2018

 

The Brown family is pursued by German and Baratarian agents.

 

Notes from the Back to the Future chronology

 

This story opens on September 21, 1939.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this story

Wilbur

Gladys

Einstein

Prince Rufio

Albert Einstein

Minnie

Fair Man (mentioned only)

Miss Kendall

Lawrence

Doc Brown

Clara

Karl Heinrich

Fritz

Jules

Verne

Baratarian guards

Adolf Hitler (mentioned only)

Didja Notice?

On page 3, what is presumably meant to be the flag of Barataria is seen hanging outside the nation's World's Fair pavilion.

On page 4, a man and his wife discuss the excessive punishments issued to rule-breakers in Barataria, the man saying he thinks he read something about it in Collier's. Collier's was an American weekly magazine that was published from 1888-1957.

On page 5, Doc mentions Planck's law of black body radiation. Max Planck (1858-1947) was a German theoretical physicist who developed a mathematical formula for describing the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation.

On page 11, the man who has found the stray Einstein and Rufio (who is revealed in "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!" Part 6 to be Albert Einstein) says, "Et tu, doggie?" Et tu is Latin for "and you".

Albert Einstein's dog here is named Minnie. As far as I can find, this is a fictitious dog.

On page 12, a woman at the fair remarks that she saw Fair Man pretend to stop a bank robbery that morning. We saw the costumed hero in "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!" Part 3.

On page 13, the Baratarian guards notice that the "American policeman" Karl does not have an American-sounding accent and he tries to tell them he is from New Orleans and has a bit of Creole in his voice. The Creole are a French-American population in the state of Louisiana and its major city of New Orleans.

    On page 13, Jules uses the Francisco Goya quote, "The sleep of reason produces monsters." Goya (1746-1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. The phrase was the caption of the 43rd of 80 aquatint prints he produced between 1797 and 1799.

    The footnote in this panel states that the quote comes from Goya and the footnote itself is attributed to "Juan Barbero". This is a Spanish version of the name of this issue's writer, John Barber.

While running through the miniature city diorama on page 18, Verne remarks that he feels like Paul Bunyan, also mentioning Babe the blue ox. As previously stated in the study of "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!" Part 3, Paul Bunyan is a fictitious larger-than-life character of American folklore, a giant lumberjack who performed superhuman labors. Babe is Bunyan's gigantic pet.

On page 21, Fritz's pistol appears to be a Mauser C-96, a semi-automatic pistol manufactured by the German company Mauser from 1896-1937.

At the back of each issue of Back to the Future: Tales from the Time Train, is a feature about the construction and shooting of the time train movie vehicle. This issue features a couple of photos of the time circuits in the cab of the train, which were not seen during the train's brief appearance at the end of Back to the Future Part III.