Unusual Tales - The Somnambulist

"Unusual Tales", a series presenting Steve Ditko's comics from 1957 to 1959 that are in the public domain.

The 6-page story "The Somnambulist" comes to us from St. John's DO YOU BELIEVE IN NIGHTMARES #1 [1957], one of five Ditko stories in that issue that make up his only work for published by the company. An entertaining little tale about a barker peddling the sideshow attraction of a man who never wakes but can make predictions about the future. Of course it's all an over-elaborate scheme, which eventually backfires.

But before the story, some links:

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Scans in this series generally adapted to my personal tastes from those copies

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