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|title=Back to the Future #8: Continuum Conundrum Part 3
|series=[[Back to the Future (IDW Publishing)]]
|issue=8
|pages=26
|writer=[[Bob Gale]]<br />[[John Barber]]
|penciller=[[Marcelo Ferreira]]
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|publication date=[[May 25]], [[2016]]
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'''''Back to the Future #8: Continuum Conundrum Part 3''''' was the eighth issue of the [[Back to the Future (IDW Publishing)|''Back to the Future'']] [[Back to the Future comics|comic series]] by [[IDW Publishing]].

==Publisher's Summary==
THE CONTINUM CONUNDRUM part 3! Doc and Marty are on the run—but Doc can’t remember what he’s doing and Marty’s just happy to be back in the time-traveling adventure...until things start to go very, very wrong!

==Plot==
On [[August 13]], [[1893]], [[Emmett Brown|Doc Brown]] exits the [[livery stable]] to tell his wife, [[Clara Clayton|Clara]], and his sons, [[Jules Brown|Jules]] and [[Verne Brown|Verne]], that he successfully built a [[steam time car]]. He reveals that he hooked up the [[time circuits]] and the [[flux capacitor]] from the [[Jules Verne train]] to the steam time car, in order to allow it to [[time travel|travel through time]].

Doc tells his family that he doubts that the steam time car will survive a second trip, as the stresses of the [[space-time continuum]] and the temperature fluctuation will wreak havoc on its cast iron frame. He assures his sons that the [[diving suit]] will keep him protected, and that he has a plan to return home. He assures them he will return seconds after he left, and then vanishes into the future.

Clara and the boys wait for him all night. The next day, they are worried since he never arrived home. Clara tells her sons that she is going to write a [[Clara's letter|letter]] to [[Marty McFly|a friend]] for help, letting her sons know that she intends to write to him across time.

On [[March 3]], [[1986]], [[Marty McFly]] is racing [[Douglas J. Needles]] in a [[tow truck]], with the [[steam time car]] hooked up to its chain. [[Jennifer Parker]] is following them in the unmodified [[DeLorean DMC-12]], with Doc in the passenger seat. A [[time parachute|parachute]] pops out of the steam time car, and Marty crashes the tow truck into a tree. However, just as Needles begins to gloat, Jennifer crashes the DeLorean into his [[Ford F-150]] and knocks him into the back of a delivery truck hauling [[egg]]s.

Jennifer and Doc rejoined Marty, and they hooked the steam time car up to the DeLorean. Marty drove the DeLorean to the [[Twin Pines Mall|Lone Pine Mall]] to inspect the steam time car. They discovered that Doc had arrived in 1986 from 2035.

Marty discovered that Doc had arrived from [[2035]] by examining the last time departed readout on the time circuits of the steam time car. At that moment, Doc's memory was beginning to come back, as he remembered that he developed a [[frictionless dynamo]] to deliver multiples of the 1.21 [[jigowatt|gigawatts]] needed for time travel. He then planned revealed the purpose of the parachute.

The parachute was hooked up to a hot air balloon. A person would ascend in the balloon to a distance of half a mile, and then would be released from the balloon. The person would fall at a rate of 35 feet per second per second, and would reach 88 mph between four and five seconds. Since the time circuits and flux capacitor are connected to the parachute, the person would travel through time. The time traveler would then pull the ripcord of the parachute once they traveled through time, and arrive safely on the ground in that time period.

Doc stated that he could then safely go home. Jennifer said that they couldn't just let him travel alone, and Marty assured him that they weren't going to do that. Marty suggested they travel to 2035 to try to jog Doc's memory, and held up the [[radiation suit]] that was in the DeLorean. Marty would wear the radiation suit, and Doc would wear the [[diving suit]], and both of them would be protected once they traveled into the future.

==Dramatis Personae==
===Individuals===
* [[Marty McFly]]
* [[Jennifer Parker]]
* [[Emmett Brown]]
* [[Jack (Lee Bros. Towing & Repair)]]
* [[Douglas J. Needles]]
* [[Einstein]] {{mo}}
* [[Clara Clayton]] {{mo}}
* [[Jules Brown]] {{mo}}
* [[Verne Brown]] {{mo}}

===Dates===
*[[August 13]], [[1893]]
*[[March 3]], [[1986]]

===Locations===
*[[Livery stable]]
*[[Clara's house]]
*[[Lee Bros. Towing & Repair]]
*[[Twin Pines Mall|Lone Pine Mall]]

===Vehicles===
*[[DeLorean DMC-12]]
*[[Ford F-150]]
*[[Tow truck]]

===Animals===
*[[Chicken (bird)]] {{mo}}

===Technology===
*[[Diving suit]]
*[[Radiation suit]]
*[[Hover conversion]] {{mo}}

==Doc's inventions==
*[[Steam time car]]
*[[Jules Verne train]]
*[[Flux capacitor]]
*[[Time circuits]]
*[[Frictionless dynamo]] {{1st}}

===Miscellanea===
*[[Great Scott!]]
*[[Nincompoop]] {{1st}}
*[[Egg]]

==Trivia==
*The "Last Time Departed" readout on the chronometer of the steam time car indicates that Doc arrived from [[May 2]], 2035.

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