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Cover: Jack Kirby & Joe Simon
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The Strange World of Your Dreams #1

Aug 1952 · Prize · 0.10 USD
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An anthology issue exploring the strange world of dreams and their meanings. The first story follows a man named Sam Slump who is stabbed in the leg during a violent encounter and left at a broken-down place; he later realizes the entire incident was a dream, though he cannot explain how the wound on his leg could have come from something that never happened. A second story features a man in a tower room who experiences bizarre and unsettling dreams, including encounters with medical staff and strange supernatural occurrences, ultimately discovering that a locked door in his room was mysteriously unlocked during one of his dream sequences.

Contains 5 stories
I Talked With My Dead Wife!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense
Untitled Fantasy story
2 pp · Fantasy
Richard Temple
Don't Wake the Sleeper! Or You'll Vanish Forever
7 pp · Horror-Suspense

A drifter named Sam Winslow finds shelter in an impossibly perfect house after falling from a truck, where he awakens to discover a beautiful woman named Nancy who claims he's living inside someone else's dream—and that if the sleeping dreamer wakes, everyone in this world will vanish. As Sam grows enchanted with Nancy and the idyllic surroundings, his skepticism wars with her pleas to leave the sleeper undisturbed, pulling him toward a revelation that threatens everything around him.

Untitled Fantasy story
2.5 pp · Fantasy
Richard Temple
The Dreaming Tower!
7 pp · Horror-Suspense

A man named John Sumpter has spent years trapped in the same recurring dream—a solitary tower room overlooking the ocean, where he wakes to breakfast, reads, listens to records, and finds the door always locked. But when his dream begins to break its established pattern, with strange voices outside mentioning a doctor, missed medication, and a boy, Sumpter grows uneasy and ventures through his newly unlocked door for the first time, descending into darkness toward a mysterious gathering of voices below. What he discovers at the bottom of the tower will force him to question the very nature of his reality.

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Raw (Good) $222
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $8,416*
CGC 9.4 · 2 in census $6,118
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $2,295
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $1,529
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $1,313*
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CGC 7.5 · 4 in census $1,019
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $876*
CGC 6.5 · 4 in census $735*
CGC 6.0 · 4 in census $636*
CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $534*
CGC 5.0 · 5 in census $503
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $434
CGC 4.0 · 2 in census $377*
CGC 3.5 · 2 in census $311
CGC 3.0 · 3 in census $297*
CGC 2.5 · 1 in census $243
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $205*
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Full credits

writer, artist, inker Jack Kirby
inker Joe Simon
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Jack Kirby
cover inks Joe Simon

Reprints

Reprinted in The Jack Kirby Reader #2 (2004), The Strange World of Your Dreams #[nn] (2013), The Simon and Kirby Library #[nn] (2014)

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