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Cover of Nightmare (1970) #3

Nightmare (1970) #3

Skywald 1970–1975 series Cover date Apr 1971

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About this issue

Nightmare #3 (1970) is issue #3 of Skywald's Nightmare (1970–1975), with a cover date of April 1971. Written by Gerry Conway, Gardner Fox, Al Hewetson and others and drawn by Rich Buckler, Bruce Jones, Jack Katz and others.

Creators

Writers
Gerry Conway, Gardner Fox, Al Hewetson, Bruce Jones, Jack Katz, Kevin Pagan
Pencillers
Rich Buckler, Bruce Jones, Jack Katz, Serg Moren, Paul Reinman, Chic Stone, Tom Sutton
Inkers
Dan Adkins, Rich Buckler, Mike Esposito, Frank Giacoia, Bruce Jones, Serg Moren, Chic Stone
Letterers
Jean Simek, Irv Watanabe
Cover artist
Boris Vallejo

The stories

“The Inner Man”

A scientist named Wroclaw is able to perfect his shrinking experiment on a test subject named Varga; a criminal that had been sentenced to death. The experiment is a success but the now miniature Varga flees and hides inside a bottle of pills. Wroclaw swallows one of the pills, inadvertently swallowing Varga. Now inside his body, Varga accesses Wroclaw's brain and manipulates him to commit murder. Eventually Wroclaw decapitates himself and Varga is now at the mercy of Wroclaw's subconscious which destroy him.

“The Victims”

A scientist and his assistant are working on creating indestructible clones that can be used to make the United States unbeatable in war. The assistant kills the scientist and his wife due to jealously but then finds out he simply killed clones of them that the scientist had created. Since they are indestructible, the clones return from "death" and kill the assistant.

“Vault of a Vampire”

In ancient Rome (126 B.C) three young men hunt a vampire who has been terrorizing the area. They manage to trap him in his forest tomb, which forces the vampire to resort to self cannibalism. They then break into his vault and finish the weakened vampire off with swords.

“When the Dawn Gods War!”

A human like being crashes on a prehistoric world and is pursued by alien beings called Thropoli (multi-tentacled amoeba like creatures). The Thropoli enlist a caveman named Kroog to hunt down the human. The human sees Kroog and by using electric generators causes lighting and thunder to occur frightening Kroog into believing he is a god. He then instructs Kroog and his mate to make a juice from some plants and give it to the Thropoli. This will poison them. After the Thropoli leave with the food, the human decides to name Kroog and his mate Adam and Eve.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.