Comic Title: Time Masters #3
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1990
On Sale Date: February 20, 1990 Shipping Date February 20, 1990
Source: Previews, #12

Shipping Date February 20, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #176

Shipping Date February 22, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #14

Direct Market Date February 22, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #139

Copyright Date February 20, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Time Has Come Today"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Time Masters

Writer: Bob Wayne
Writer: Lewis Shiner
Penciller: Art Thibert
Inker: Jose F. Marzan, Jr.
Letterer: Robert M. Pinaha
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Time Masters TPB (2008)

Feature Character(s)

• Rip Hunter (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)

Guest Star(s)

• Jonah Hex (last appearance in Swamp Thing #85; next appearance in Secret Origins #21)
• Bat Lash (last appearance in Swamp Thing #85; no further appearances)
• Scalphunter (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jeff Smith (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)
• Bonnie Baxter (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)
• Corky Baxter (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)
• Dan Hunter (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)
• Antonia (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #4)
• Cave Carson (last appearance in Time Masters #1; next appearance in Time Masters #4)

Villain(s)

• Vandal Savage (last appearance in Time Masters #2; next appearance in Time Masters #8)
• Executives at Templar Industries (last appearance in Time Masters #2; no further appearances)
• Porfiro Diaz (President of Mexico; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Enrique Valdez (an ambassador from Spain; shot by Jonah Hex in this story; no further appearances)
• Alphonse De Rothschild (head of a French banking house; no further appearances)
• Rutherford B. Hayes (an aspiring politician; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Vandal Savage (in 1874; last appearance in Time Masters #5; next appearance in Time Masters #4)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Time Masters #2 and continues in Time Masters #4.

Synopsis:
After rescuing Corky from pre-historic times, the Time Masters link the Illuminati to Porfiro Diaz, the 19th Century leader of Mexico. Rip sends Jeff back in time with the goal of executing him. Once he arrives in 1874, Jeff meets Jonah Hex who is working as a bodyguard for Diaz. He doesn't wanted to go through with killing Diaz, but when the leader has a Spanish ambassador shot and plans to rig the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as President, Jeff concedes that he needs to eliminate Diaz. However, when the moment comes, he hesitates. Hex shoots Jeff in the arm. Jeff then returns to 1990 before Jonah can finish him.

When Jeff returns, he finds that Rip and the others are trying to evacuate the lab which is rigged to explode. Bonnie calls Cave Carson who uses his mole machine to carry out some of the equipment before the lab explodes.