Leap Into The Future

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suebutcher
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Leap Into The Future

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Any info on this strip, which was drawn by Gerry Wood and published in World Of Wonder? Was it a science fiction serial?

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Steve Holland scanned the whole series for his Bear Alley blog. You should be able to see it here:

https://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/search ... e%20Future

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Thanks, Phil, that's the one. My school library had WOW, and the main reason I remember this is because I had no idea what "enzymes" were. Something like LSD, maybe? I'm actually surprised that time travel via drugs was still considered a suitable subject for juvenile fiction in 1970!

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It's interesting that Daphne du Maurier's 1969 novel The House on the Strand also deals with the subject of time travel via mind altering drugs. I guess it must have been an idea that was 'in the air' at the time.

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