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{{Infobox Comic Book
|image= [[File:Doc's apartment.png|256px]]
|title=Looking for a Few Good Scientists
|series=''[[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines]]''
|issue=1
|pages=7
|writer=[[Bob Gale]], [[John Barber]]
|letterer=[[Shawn Lee]]
|colorist=[[Luis Antonio Delgado]]
|editor=[[Tom Waltz]]
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|publication date=[[October 21]], [[2015]] (English)<br>[[February 8]], [[2017]] (Japan)
|timeline=[[1943]]
}}'''''Looking for a Few Good Scientists''''' was the second of two stories printed within [[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines 1|issue 1]] of [[Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines]] printed by [[IDW Publishing]] in [[2015]].

In Japan, it was published by Takarajimasha, both in the ''Back to the Future: Untold Tales'' trade paperback and for a limited time as a webcomic that was viewable on Takarajimasha's website.

It was based on the idea that [[Emmett Brown]] worked for the [[Manhattan Project]] as a young man.

==Publisher's Summary==
“Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines,” part 1: BttF creator/screenwriter Bob Gale returns with all-new tales from the twisting and turning timeline that made Back to the Future a, well… TIMELESS pop-culture phenomenon! Take a trip back to 1985 and be there when Doc Brown and Marty McFly first meet, and then jump even farther back, to 1945, to witness Doc’s involvement in the super-secret Manhattan Project.

==Plot==
In [[1943]], [[Emmett Brown]] leaves his teaching duties at the [[California Institute of Technology]] by telling his students to work on the Jacobian conjecture, knowing that since he didn't teach a math class, they'd be thoroughly occupied.

He confronts [[Robert Millikan]] with the revelation that he is aware that the top scientific minds from the facility are being sent to work on a top secret think tank by to work on a project for the government to benefit the war effort.

Robert tells him that Emmett's name did come up for the project, but he wasn't told about it. He is told that the vetting process requires an interview at his home, and possibly a psychiatric evaluation, and he's afraid that once the interviewers saw Emmett's apartment, he'd be disappointed in the outcome. Emmett tells him that he has a solution, and the interview is scheduled.

At the interview, Lieutenant General [[Leslie Groves]] and [[Vannevar Bush]] are impressed with how orderly the home is, telling Emmett that his co-workers had described him as more chaotic. He's told that the orderly nature of the apartment speaks to the disciplined mind they are after.

General Groves spots a book on needlepoint, and asks Emmett about it. Emmett explains that he doesn't like to dismiss anything, as anything can lead to a breakthrough, impressing Vannevar Bush.

As the interview is ending, Bush steps on the mail that had been delivered through the mail slot. Upon picking it up, he realizes that the mail is addressed to [[Mrs. Gomez]], Emmett's landlady, and tells Emmett that they will be in touch.

Emmett thinks that he blew the interview, and tries to think of another way to get the position on his way home. Upon arriving at his apartment, surprised that the lights are on, Emmett is greeted by General Groves, Vannevar Bush, and [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]].

Emmett happily shakes Oppenheimer's hand, and expresses confusion, as he thought that he didn't get the job. He is told that they were well aware that he was using his landlady's home for the interview. Using an orderly home instead of simply cleaning his own is the exact kind of unconventional thinking that they are seeking for the position.

Emmett is then offered a job on the Manhattan Project. Emmett goes to his refrigerator and tells them that he has something to mark the occasion. He offers them orange [[Jello]], which is dome shaped and has a mushroom symbolically floating in its center.

==Appearances==
{{App
|characters=
*[[Emmett Brown]]
*[[Robert Millikan]] {{1st}}
*[[George Ellery Hale]] {{1stm}}
*[[Vannevar Bush]] {{1st}}
*[[Leslie Groves]] {{1st}}
*[[Mrs. Gomez]] {{1stm}}
*[[Thérèse de Dillmont]] {{1stm}}
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] {{1st}}
*[[Tommy Handley]] {{C|On the Fox Pasadena Marquee}}
*[[Evelyn Dall]] {{C|On the Fox Pasadena Marquee}}
*[[George Moon]] {{C|On the Fox Pasadena Marquee}}
*[[Benjamin Franklin]] {{C|photo in Emmett's apartment}}
*[[Isaac Newton]] {{C|photo in Emmett's apartment}}


|creatures=
*[[Dog]] {{mo}}

|locations=
* [[California Institute of Technology]] {{1st}}
* [[Gomez residence]] {{1st}}
* [[Doc's apartment]] {{1st}}
* [[Fox Pasadena Theatre]] {{1st}}
* [[Schwab's Pharmacy]] {{1st}}
* [[Reliable Radio]] {{1st}}

|events=
*[[Manhattan Project]] {{mo}}

|organizations=
*[[United States Army]]

|vehicles=
*[[DeSoto|DeSoto 2-Door Sedan]]

|technology=
*[[Nuclear weapon|Nuclear bomb]] {{mo}}

|miscellanea=
*[[1943]]
*''[[The New Heavens]]'' {{1st}}
*[[Jacobian conjecture]] {{1st}}
*''[[Encyclopedia of Needlework]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Good Housekeeping]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Time Flies]]'' {{1st}}
*[[Jello]] {{1st}}
}}
[[Category: Comic stories]]