Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor (1995) comic books 1990 or later

Written by Harlan Ellison. Art by Eric Shanower. Cover by Michael Whelan. You made the world a better place. You probably didn't realize the significance of your actions at the time, but when you bought Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special you truly changed the fate of the planet. Your purchase was a vote to continue our series of adaptations of Harlan Ellison's stories of the fantastic, and so continue we shall! This first issue of the new series features enough great creators to stun a police dog, as you can no doubt see from the breakdown above. But in particular, you should pay attention to the adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. This classic is one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language! (They probably made you study it in college.) John Byrne is the first artist ever to adapt this famous story to the comics medium, and we're proud to run his vision alongside Harlan's original prose. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Written by Harlan Ellison. Art by Eric Shanower. Cover by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon . Have you ever had that exquisitely blinding moment of awareness, that instant of epiphany, in which you knew, damned well knew, without question, that you were having one of the best days of your life...or that you were enjoying True Love...or were deeply involved in a project that would one day loom in your memory as The Best of Times? That's the way we all feel about our enigmatic involvement with Dream Corridor. Like those who worked on the first comic-book issues of Mad; like those who created the glory days of The Harvard Lampoon and went on their way to invent National Lampoon and "Saturday Night Live"; like those who realized halfway through the filming of Casablanca and Citizen Kane and Field of Dreams that they were sitting on the lip of Great Art, with Posterity grinning at them; those of us going from issue to issue with Dream Corridor understand that this is One Of The Special Jobs. Like working in a band beside Bix Beiderbecke; or being there the first night the Beatles went onstage in Hamburg; or sitting in the first row at Montreaux for the Miles Davis tribute. We are imbued with a sense of being at precisely the right place, at the most diamond-perfect moment. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Written by Harlan Ellison. Art by Eric Shanower. Cover by Sam Raffa. Top quality stories adapted by top industry talents, plus something new from his majesty Harlan. What more could you want? Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor: Saving the galaxy through Creative Untruthing. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Written by Harlan Ellison. Art by Eric Shanower. Hey, pal, we just got the numbers in on the first issue of this series, and all we can say is Wow. Well, that's not all we can say. We can also say Thank You. But, you know, the best way to say Thanks is not with words; it's with actions. And that's why we've pulled out all the stops for this issue of Dream Corridor. We chained fan-favorite writer Peter David down in the cellar to script the adaptation of "Catman," the story about how the other half, the criminal element, lives. Then we hung around in the bushes of Mike Deodato's house, and ambushed him when he left to send off his latest pages of Wonder Woman. (When you see the crease down the middle of page 12 of the next WW, know that it's our fault.) He's down in that same cellar with Peter, painting all those beautiful "Catman" pages. You wouldn't think a guy surviving on bread and water would be able to do such a wonderful job! The body they have to keep stepping over is John Byrne, who has been locked down there for months. He's just turned in his final installment of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," and he's working up the strength to climb the stairs. And the icing on the corpse this month is this intriguing tale of fantasy titled "Cold Friend," which boasts a script adaptation by R.A. Jones and the artwork of David Lapham (Stray Bullets). Interstitial framing sequences for the whole schmagegi have been created by Harlan Ellison and rendered by Eric Shanower. Wrap it all up with a painted cover by Jane McKenzie and an all-new short story by Ellison titled "Chatting with Anubis," and you got yourself one big Thank You. Now on with our show. Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor -- Building a global community through Creative Untruthing. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.

Written by Harlan Ellison. Art by Eric Shanower. Cover by Ron Brown. "Some years ago I was approached by the distinguished sf author Barry Malzberg and the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Edward Ferman, to contribute a new story to "the ultimate science fiction anthology," Final Stage. It was to be a collection of stories that were the final word, the absolute envelope-straining outer limit on a variety of themes: the ultimate time-travel story, the ultimate robot story, the ultimate alien-invasion story. And like that. Barry and Ed assigned me the task of writing "the ultimate science fiction sex story." I wrote "Catman." Was it as dramatic as the editors desired? When the book was reprinted in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, and half a dozen other countries, the only story the overseas publishers would not include, at risk of being a deal-breaker, was "Catman." In two parts, adapted by the brilliant Peter David of Hulk, Star Trek, Sachs & Violens, and Aquaman fame, exquisitely and mature-adultly painted in full glowing living color by Mike Deodato, Jr. (Wonder Woman, et al), this is my "Catman" brought pulsing from the mind's eye to the printed page. Part two is in this issue, along with "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?", which has been rendered in adaptation by Faye Perozich -- who had three scripts in our Special -- and painted by the astonishing artist Eric White, whose covers have been seen on Time, GQ, and Playgirl. Of this story, Truman Capote said, "Ooh, I love it; what a nasty, dirty little story!" This is, of course, our demented sexual orgy issue. Fun for the entire family. (And, as usual, the usual interstitial pages created by me, Harlan, and rendered by him, Eric Shanower.) The usual new story, written this time around a knockout Ron Brown sorta kinda Sinbad-battling-the-roc cover. And the first installment of our new letter column, imaginatively titled "A Letter Column," wherein fools will be upbraided in effusive and elegant prose. Can such wonders be? Can one afford to miss it? I bloody well think not." -- Harlan Ellison 32 pages, FC. Cover price $2.95.