Bought then: zip...nada....bupkis!

Bought later:

It was an adaptation of the tv movie, starring Clint Walker, based on the Theodore Sturgeon story.



The cover is greatly embellishing things, as the comic was a fairly faithful adaptation.  Issues #7-8 adapted The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

The tv movie was cheesy fun, which is why I picked up the comic.  My cousin, who had a much bigger collection of comics, when we were kids, had a copy of it and I enjoyed the adaptation.

Here is a sample page, with the machine in action.....

Then:

Ummmmm............................................




Later:

I need to start following this thread. Pretty sure it was just about exactly 50 years ago when I was seriously getting into comics.

Here's what young MW got in March 1974:


From Marvel, I was still digging their monster books. I loved IT! The Living Colossus, whose run in ASTONISHING TALES came to an end this month. I was eager for The Golem in STRANGE TALES, but it was a disappointment. I always thought Morbius was cool, so I was happy to keep supporting his run in FEAR, and TOMB OF DRACULA never let me down, although the GIANT-SIZE CHILLERS did. I knew, having cracked the code in the Bullpen Bulletins, that this was originally proposed as "The Victims of Dracula" for SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS, and I thought that was a much more intriguing title; this was just Dracula featuring Lilith...*yawn*. I bought FF and DR. STRANGE out of dedication to the Defenders, and I always found CRAZY to be a joy. I'm not sure how I ended up with SAVAGE TALES, but the B&W Conans tended to be the ones I was most likely to sample. I got the Sinbad adaptation because I had seen the movie. MTU was a regular buy because I loved the concept of team-ups, although I never really loved the series itself. 
It was a special month for DC Comics, with the eagerly-awaited reprint of DETECTIVE 27 being a lot cruder and less interesting than I had expected. I still felt like I should love SHAZAM, so I got the treasury with its great Fawcett reprints and the pseudo-Captain Marvel appearance in SUPERMAN. I had followed WONDER WOMAN a bit at the end of the Diana Prince era, and was a JLA fan, so I was drawn into the "Trials of Wonder Woman" arc. I was missing Jim Aparo on DETECTIVE COMICS, but he turned in a terrific cover here! I missed him even more on PHANTOM STRANGER, but I kept buying. THE SHADOW was a subscription, so I probably didn't get this issue until April, so I'd already gotten over the shock of Kaluta being replaced by Robbins thanks to seeing copies on the racks. RIMA was the only jungle comics I bought faithfully...oh, did Redondo have a talent for drawing lovely women!
BRAVE & BOLD #113 had Murray Boltinoff answering my request for a Jim Aparo bio; more than a decade later, letterhack Chris Khalaf would contact my parents at the address listed here (I had moved from Memphis to Huntsville by then) and we bonded as Jim Aparo fans, meeting up in Chicago in 1994 to hang with the man himself!