History TimeTravel / ComicBooks

* The [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy & Mandy]] story "Better Luck Next Time" (Cartoon Network Block Party #45) has Billy messing with Grim's demonic cuckoo clock. It sends him and Mandy through time where they meet a mysterious cloaked figure that tells them to return to where they started. It backfires thanks to Billy's blundering. The cloaked figure turns out to be Grim in the future, resigned to being consigned to the two forever.

* In ''ComicBook/UniversalWarOne'', scientists build a space station that accidentally opens a wormhole, allowing limited time travel. [[spoiler: Then Kalish solves the equations that allow anybody to travel through time and space without limitation.]]

* ''ComicBook/PS238'', especially the later issues. Includes several confusing [[StableTimeLoop stable time loops]]

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** ''ComicBook/BatmanSupermanWorldsFinest''In order to meet the ancient House of Ji and learn how they defeated the devil Nezha, Supergirl takes Robin and breaks the time barrier to travel to 16th Century China.

* ''ComicBook/BoosterGold'' is the current TimeTravel comic at DC, exploring the difficulties of [[YouCantFightFate solidified time]] and the effects of the various crises on the time line, making it like [[ScrewDestiny "Wet Cement".]]

** Issue #21 has the Thing and the ComicBook/HumanTorch accidentally time-travelling to 1936, allowing them to meet Franchise/DocSavage.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has been known to dabble with this, most importantly in the backstory of the local BigGood, Samaritan, who travelled back in time to prevent a disaster in the "modern day". And he succeeded, only to prevent his own birth in the process.
** It also plays a major part in the story of the Silver Agent, who travels through time to save the city after his own wrongful execution.
* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' story arc ''ComicBook/TheCelestialMadonnaSaga'', Kang seizes Immortus' machines, abducts the Avengers to Limbo and raises an army of super-powered dead people via Time Travel.

** This one can be used for [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]] by setting the time travel to 0, but the experiments have shown it unsafe for the time being.

* ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne'': This is how ComicBook/{{the Thing}} gets to interact with heroes who are from different time periods:

** Prior to 1985, Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} could time travel under his own power but would arrive in the past completely invisible (unless traveling to before he was born) and intangible, unable to interact with the past in any way, avoiding the problems with this trope. After 1985, Kryptonians were no longer powerful enough to time travel at all.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He is from a future ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.

* The [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy & Mandy]] story "Better Luck Next Time" (Cartoon Network Block Party #45) has Billy messing with Grim's demonic cuckoo clock. It sends him and Mandy through time where they meet a mysterious cloaked figure that tells them to return to where they started. It backfires thanks to Billy's blundering. The cloaked figure turns out to be Grim in the future, resigned to being consigned to the two forever.
* The backstory in ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' involves type 6. About halfway to the start, someone tries type 2 – on the future.
* In ''ComicBook/UniversalWarOne'', scientists build a space station that accidentally opens a wormhole, allowing limited time travel. [[spoiler: Then Kalish solves the equations that allow anybody to travel through time and space without limitation.]]
* ''ComicBook/PS238'', especially the later issues. Includes several confusing [[StableTimeLoop stable time loops]]
* ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': In issue #10, most of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica (ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/DoctorFate, [[ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre Sandman]], ComicBook/TheAtom, ComicBook/TheSpectre, Dr. Mid-Nite, and Johnny Thunder) are sent forward in time to the year 2442 to try and learn about future defenses against bombing raids. While most don't believe them, some of the people they meet remember learning about the JSA making the trip in their studies of history and help them access the information they seek.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He is from a future ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.
* In ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', time travel with the Teletijdmachine sends people through a dimension that is either completely black or resembles outer space.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Prior to 1985, Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} could time travel under his own power but would arrive in the past completely invisible (unless traveling to before he was born) and intangible, unable to interact with the past in any way, avoiding the problems with this trope. After 1985, Kryptonians were no longer powerful enough to time travel at all.
** In ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', Superman gets dragged to the fourteenth century by [[EvilSorcerer Satanis]], and then he gets involuntarily involved in a magic war between Satanis and Syrene during which he is split into two duplicate Supermen. Since his enemies only need one Superman to carry out his goals, one duplicate is sent back to the present day. The Superman stuck in the modern era must find a way to travel back to the past before his enemies kill his "twin" and gain immense power.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', Kara's powers are malfunctioning. As a test to find out if whatever is nullifying her powers is limited to the present century, Superman takes her to the 17th century, and later he lends her a Legion's Time Bubble to travel to the future.
** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', Superman travels to the past right when ComicBook/{{Superboy}} is flying towards the future and collides with his past self. Superman's mind become trapped in his teenager body and stuck in his past, and he cannot leave because Luthor has messed up with the time stream.
** In ''ComicBook/TheImmortalSuperman'', Clark Kent uses a Legion's Time Bubble to travel to the year 101,970.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has been known to dabble with this, most importantly in the backstory of the local BigGood, Samaritan, who travelled back in time to prevent a disaster in the "modern day". And he succeeded, only to prevent his own birth in the process.
** It also plays a major part in the story of the Silver Agent, who travels through time to save the city after his own wrongful execution.

* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', a version of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} gains time-travelling powers and travels back and forward to try to set the timeline right.
* In ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'', time travel is occasionally present in the series. So far, there has been 3 ways to travel through time: two invented on Earth by humans from different eras and another by aliens called Vineans.
* In ''ComicBook/TheScrameustache'', time travel stories rarely show up. On two occasions, [[spoiler:it was to save Khena's family and another to free Uncle Georges from a curse]].
* ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeVsTheTransformers G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II]]'' involved the Joes, Cobra and the Autobots traveling through time to retrieve time-displaced Transformers in order to prevent a time paradox from wiping out all life on Earth.

* In ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', time travel with the Teletijdmachine sends people through a dimension that is either completely black or resembles outer space (with stars etc.

* ''ComicBook/AllStarComics'': In issue 10 most of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica (ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, [[ComicBook/DoctorFate Dr. Fate]], [[ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre Sandman]], ComicBook/TheAtom, ComicBook/TheSpectre, Dr. Mid-Nite, and Johnny Thunder) are sent forward in time to the year 2442 to try and learn about future defenses against bombing raids. While most don't believe them, some of the people they meet remember learning about the JSA making the trip in their studies of history and help them access the information they seek.

* In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', -a version of- ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} gains time-travelling powers and travels back and forward to try set the timeline right.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He is from a future ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ComicBook/KingdomCome by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He claims, and it's probably true, that he is from a future ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ComicBook/KingdomCome by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.

** Prior to [[ComicBook/PostCrisis 1985]] Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} could time travel under his own power but would arrive in the past completely invisible (unless traveling to before he was born) and intangible, unable to interact with the past in any way, avoiding the problems with this trope. After 1985, Kryptonians were no longer powerful enough to time travel at all.

*** This one can be used for [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]] by setting the time travel to 0, but the experiments have shown it unsafe for the time being.

* ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He claims, and it's probably true, that he is from a future ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ComicBook/KingdomCome by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.
* Prior to [[ComicBook/PostCrisis 1985]] Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} could time travel under his own power but would arrive in the past completely invisible (unless traveling to before he was born) and intangible, unable to interact with the past in any way, avoiding the problems with this trope. After 1985, Kryptonians were no longer powerful enough to time travel at all.
* Time travel often shows up in the ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics, in different flavors depending on the subseries and the specific technology:

* ''[[ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]]'' has featured the modern Starman, a severe schizophrenic with powerful gravity controlling abilities. He claims, and it's probably true, that he is from a future Legion of Superheroes, future in terms of the Legion's comic too since he's an adult and the Legion in its comic is composed entirely of teenagers. Starman is also a dimensional traveler, who made his original appearance in ComicBook/KingdomCome by helping Superman try and contain the villains and anti-heroes; apparently he can travel through time and the multiverse through a combination of his powers and a map that's written into his costume.