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Nightmask #1 (1986) · The Collector

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Nightmask (1986)
#1

Marvel#1

Nightmask

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Nightmask #1

The Awakening

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: November 1986
On sale: Jul 1, 1986
Cover price: $0.75
Pages: 36

Key issue

1st appearance of Theodora "Teddy" Remsen
1st appearance of "Lita" Mercado
1st appearance of Dr. Lucian Ballad
1st appearance of Dr. Frey
1st appearance of Kate

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Teenager Keith Remsen awakens from a coma during the White Event with the power to enter and manipulate the dreams of others with his younger sister, Teddy, acting as his anchor to the real world. Weeks earlier as he was waiting to board a plane to Switzerland to study at the Kleinmann Institute, an assassin had used a luggage bomb to kill his parents, put his sister in a wheelchair, and put Keith himself in a coma. Keith, as Nightmask, enters the dreams of his parents' assassin to find out why he was sent and who sent him. In the dream, Keith is confronted by the Gnome who he identifies as Dr. Horst Kleinmann himself. Kleinmann reveals that he ordered the assassination because he thought the Remsens were sending Keith as a spy to learn the secrets of Kleinmann's dream research. The assassin dies but Teddy pulls Keith out in time while Kleinmann manages to escape on his own.

Credits

Writer: Archie Goodwin
Penciller: Tony Salmons
Inker: Bret Blevins
Colorist: Andy Yanchus
Letterer: Joe Rosen
Covers: Al Milgrom, Bob Wiacek
Editor: Michael Higgins
Editor in chief: Jim Shooter

Characters

"Lita" Mercado· 1st appearance
Dr. Frey· 1st appearance
Dr. Lucian Ballad· 1st appearance
Kate· 1st appearance
Theodora "Teddy" Remsen· 1st appearance
Assassin]
Nightmask
the Gnome

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