Character(s): Nightmare & Sleepy
Publication: Clue Comics No. 4
Publication Date: June 1943
Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, Inc.

Bob White was a professional wrestler, contantly traveling the country to compete in matches. What was unknown to the general public, however was that he and his young pal, Terry Wake, were also secretly Nightmare and Sleepy, scourges of the underworld! The two would regularly encounter crime and villainy wherever they journeyed.

Nightmare & Sleepy possessed no extraordinary powers, but Nightmare's freightening skeleton-like costume was designed to give them a psychological edge against criminals. The costume was later dropped, however, in favor of a much more standard superhero outfit, as you will see in the second story reprinted here.

Nightmare and Sleepy appeared in Clue Comics 1-12, with two stories printed in no. 6. Nightmare also appeared in Clue Comics vol. 2 nos. 1-2 with a new origin and no sidekick.

NOTE: A bonus Nightmare and Sleepy story, previously reprinted on the Pure Excitement Comics web site, is also included as part of this CD-ROM collection. It is from Clue Comics no. 11, published in December of 1946 by Hillman Periodicals, Inc. It is included here immediately following the "new" Nightmare & Sleepy story, or directly at this link.