Secrets of the Unknown #70
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Girl at the Bottom of the Sea!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber craft a chilling tale of dread and repetition, where a man’s disbelief in eternal nightmares traps him in a relentless loop. Don Heck’s expressive art and Joe Rosen’s sharp lettering bring a haunting tension to a story that lingers long after the final panel. The cover by Ogden Whitney captures the eerie mood with a striking, otherworldly image.
In "Nightmare!", a man’s dismissal of his friend’s warning about eternal nightmares plunges him into a relentless loop—each time waking to the same tense conversation, the same reckless drive, the same fatal crash, only to restart again and again. The story unfolds with quiet dread, trapping the reader in the same cyclical terror as its protagonist.
When a reclusive scientist tests his mind-transposing machine on an ex-con en route to a parole meeting, chaos ensues—two lives, one body, and a very bad day for both. The story unfolds with sharp wit and a touch of absurdity, exploring identity and consequence in just four pages.
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↩ Reprints Target Comics #6 [62] (1945), Blue Bolt #2 [92] (1948), Mystery Tales #6 (1952), Forbidden Worlds #46 (1956), Journey into Mystery #41 (1956), Mystical Tales #8 (1957), Tales of Suspense #16 (1961), Adventures into the Unknown #168 (1966), Unknown Worlds #51 (1966)
Reprinted in Secrets of the Unknown #239 (1987)
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