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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.
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