Cover: Jack Kirby & Joe Simon

Adventure Comics #93

Aug 1944 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“Sleep for Sale!”

"Sleep for Sale!" in Adventure Comics #93 (1944) delivers a clever twist on the sleepy side of crime, as the Sandman uncovers a devious scheme unfolding within the Sleepatorium—a place meant to cure insomnia, but now a front for a criminal’s midnight heist. Written by Joe Samachson and illustrated by Pen Shumaker, the story blends suspense and surprise in a 1944 tale where even the deepest sleep can’t keep secrets safe. The cover by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon captures the eerie allure of the Sleepatorium’s promise.

writer Joe Samachson · artist, inker Pen Shumaker · cover Jack Kirby, Joe Simon

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writer Joe Samachson

artist, inker Pen Shumaker

cover pencils Jack Kirby

cover inks Joe Simon

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Mr. Kendall goes to the Sleepatorium, a special dormitory that puts people to sleep when nothing else works. What he doesn't know, and that the Sandman discovers, is that a fellow patient, a criminal known as Wide-Awake Willie, also uses the facility as a blind to get sleep, when, in reality, he takes a delayed action drug that awakens him at a certain time so that he and his gang can rob Kendall's home.

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