Jack Kirby and Joe Simon story from "Strange World of Your Dreams"

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, June 15, 2009 7:50 AM | permalink

Titan books, the publishers of the terrific Jack Kirby / Joe Simon Golden Age comic book anthology, The Best of Simon and Kirby, kindly gave me permission to run one of the stories in the book, from a delightfully weird comic book called The Strange World of Your Dreams. Click the thumbnail images to enjoy the story!

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#1 posted by Anonymous, June 15, 2009 8:30 AM

Wow, that pipe-wielding expert really was whacked. I hope no one took that stuff seriously.

The dream did remind me of Jung's stories of his patients.

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#2 posted by Brainspore, June 15, 2009 8:44 AM

The guy providing dream interpretation has a tweed jacket and a pipe, so you know he's on the up-and-up.

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#3 posted by Anonymous, June 15, 2009 9:24 AM

He looks a little like Doc Magnus to me... using his analysis of peoples dreams to create personalities for the Metal Men perhaps?

(That would explain a lot.)

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#4 posted by EeyoreX, June 15, 2009 9:29 AM

Very entertaining comic, but I agree that the pipe-smoking tweedman is a big cop-out. A strict Freudian analysis of this dream would have been much more interesting.

Does anybody know if "Richard Temple" was a fictional character or a real person, or what his supposed qualifications were?

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#5 posted by airship, June 15, 2009 9:54 AM

Freudian version: Penis envy.

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#6 posted by nanuq, June 15, 2009 10:05 AM

"Freudian version: Penis envy."

Eh, everyone knows the penis thing doesn't hold water.

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#7 posted by Anonymous, June 15, 2009 2:21 PM

Cf.- Jesse Reklaw, who writes/illustrates a comic based on dreams submitted by readers:

http://www.slowwave.com/