Strange Tales #122
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "3 Against The Torch!", Stephen Strange's guard slips when he falls asleep, leaving him vulnerable to the Nightmare World—a realm where fear takes shape. Trapped by the malevolent Nightmare, who's bored with his usual victims, Strange must outwit his foe using only his mind, summoning a creature that never sleeps to turn the tide. Written by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, with art by Steve Ditko and inks by George Roussos, this 1964 issue showcases the eerie brilliance of the surreal, mind-bending storytelling that defined Marvel's early supernatural tales. The cover, a dynamic collaboration by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Sol Brodsky, with inks by George Roussos and Steve Ditko, captures the clash of wills with haunting intensity.
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Weary from his struggles against supernatural forces, Strange falls asleep, carelessly forgetting to cast a protective spell over himself and becoming a prisoner of the Nightmare World! Nightmare imprisons Strange, the only human who has ever defeated him, then says he's bored and looks forward to other victims. Strange summons The Gulgol, a creature that never sleeps, and Nightmare begs Strange to stop it. He does so without uttering a spell, for in reality, Strange hypnotized Nightmare into seeing the one thing he feared; it was never there in the first place. Freed, Strange wakes up.
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