Dwarfs ATTACK! Jack Kirby Nightmare Comics Get Even Weirder

Jack Kirby sure went wild when he got to play around with the topic of dreams and nightmares. Some of his freakiest work can be seen in the pages of The Strange World of Your Dreams.

Dream analyst Richard Temple tackles the nightmares
of Walter W. in this weird two-pager from issue #2.

"In this world of atom bombs,
we all seek the sunlit garden
of your dream."

Man! That Richard Temple is a freakin' POET!

If you missed the previous stories
from The Strange World of Your Dreams,
just click on the links below!

The Girl in the Grave	I Married a Man Without a Face!
I Talked With My Dead Wife!	She's a Balloon!

I Lived 200 Years Ago -- A Historical Nightmare Comic

This story from The Strange World of Your Dreams #2 has a nice historical twist. I'm not sure who the artists are on this one, but I have a feeling that one of you eagle eyed comic book fans will be able to solve that mystery

What in the world is pajama boy talking about?
I guess we better start at the beginning...

I hope you'll come along for our next visit to
Kirby's Nightmare Adventure Land, when Walter W. says...

Pleasant...dreammssss!

The Dark Side - Mort Meskin Goes Gothic in this Inky Nightmare Comic

An interesting change of pace in this last dream story from The Strange World of Your Dreams #1

I just learned from Ger Appledorn and Steven Brower (after mis-attributing this story to Kirby/Meskin) that Mort Meskin was the co-creator of this comic series with Jack Kirby, and that it's Mort Meskin's art that brings this story to life!

This story breaks the usual format and tells a self-contained tale without the ever-present dream analyst Richard Temple. This poor guy is left to wander his inky dreamscape alone. I love the evocative shadows and inking in this story (Steven Brower suggests that George "Inky" Roussos was the inker).

Anyway -- to me, the panel below is the creepiest drawing in the whole story...

Here's the whole tale below. Pleasant dreams!

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Many more nightmares to come! See you soon...

She's Getting Fat! She's a Balloon! Jack Kirby Nightmare Comics

Another short dream comic by Jack Kirby from
The Strange World of Your Dreams issue #1

In today's nightmare, a beautiful Kirby blonde dreams
of showing off to the crowd while wearing a formal gown...

The admiring crowd turns against her...

So she blows them off and walks away , but...

...she gets pushed into the mud and turns...FAT? 

I don't want to spoil the freakish fun...you can read it yourself!

Click on the pages below to pop open up
a nice BIG King Kirby comic book scan:

If you missed the previous cases from
The Strange World of Your Dreams,
you can find them linked below:

The Girl in The Grave

I Married a Man Without a Face!

I Talked With My Dead Wife!

I Married a Man Without a Face!

A charming two-page nightmare from Jack Kirby's "The Secret World of Your Dreams" #2 --

Comic Book Dream Analyst Richard Temple tackles this curious case purportedly submitted by avid comic book reader Ellen K. of Massachusetts...

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Take a good look at your heart, Ellen.
I think you'll find the answer to your dream hidden there!

Jack Kirby's Nightmare Whisperer meets "The Girl in the Grave!"

From 1952's The Secret World of Your Dreams #2 comes another case from the files of Jack Kirby's very own psychoanalytic dream detective, Richard Temple. This time he meets a drowning girl in a local diner...

This girl's up to her neck in trouble!

 

Hanging out in spooky graveyards..

(Don't be scared...there's a happy ending!)

Here's the whole sordid tale:

Click on any comic page to open up
a nice BIG hi-res comic book scan!

See? I told you there was a happy ending!

Here's a bonus dream from the readers:

Pleasant dreams....