Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor

Issue 1, March 1995, Dark Horse Comics

front cover, Michael Whelan
story behind the cover, "Midnight In The Sunken Cathedral: Part Two"
The story and cover are also included in Dream Corridor Special, Second Edition. The complete story was subsequently included in the collection Slippage, 1997.

"Framing Sequence"
story, Harlan Ellison; art, Eric Shanower

"I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" Part 1
adaption and art, John Byrne
Original story first appeared in If, Mar '67 and is included in the collections I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, 1967; Alone Against Tomorrow, 1971; All the Sounds of Fear, 1973; The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison, 1979; The Essential Ellison, 1987; and Dreams with Sharp Teeth, 1991

This is one adaption that resulted in a small amount of disagreement between the adaptor and the author.

"John Byrne wanted to adapt 'I Have No Mouth" and he did, but being John Byrne, instead of treating the story with... not exactly a reverence, but a certain fidelity to the material - because it's such a well-known story - John decides to do a John. If you remember the story, it takes place inside this giant computer, and the caverns are hundreds of miles in diameter. Well, John made it look like it took place in your kitchen. What I decided to do was run the actual story, the parallel amount of story for the amount of pages in each issue. John's done it in four parts and with each part, there's the original story as it was published. The story appears on one side, on one page, and then there's five or six pages of John's art, with balloons and the whole thing ... The text that text that precedes it is the section of the original story that parallels what John has done. It's sequential art, the way he does Next Men, only you've got two versions of it: You've got my version and his version"

Harlan Ellison, Hero Illustrated, 22, April 1995, pp 24, 26

It is also the only story not to be included in the Dream Corridor Collection. This story also inspired the 1996 computer game of the same name.

"Knox"
adaption, Diana Schutz; art, Teddy Kristiansen
Original story first appeared in Crawdaddy Mar '74 and is included in the collections Approaching Oblivion, 1974; and The Essential Ellison, 1987

"Turnpike"
adaption, Max Alan Collins; art, Craig Elliot
Original story first appeared in Adam Bedside Reader, December 1966 and is included in the collection Gentleman Junkie, 1961

See Also:
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor 2 - featuring "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" Part Two
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor 3 - featuring "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" Part Three
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor 4 - featuring "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" Part Four
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor 5
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Quarterly 1