Strange Suspense Stories #32

"A World of His Own," the lead story, follows Joe Sawyer, a campus genius who is tricked by friends into believing he can build a time machine that will allow him to travel through time and grow up. Joe becomes obsessed with the project, and his manipulative friends use this to control him and extract money from him. When Joe finally builds what he believes is a functional time machine based on a book he has studied, his scheme unravels as his friends' deception is exposed. The story concludes with the revelation that Joe's ambitious creation was merely a product of their elaborate con.