The first episode begins with a command from King Morpheus of Slumberland to a minion to collect Nemo. Concept Ī weekly fantasy adventure, Little Nemo in Slumberland featured the young Nemo ("No one" in Latin) who dreamed himself into wondrous predicaments from which he awoke in bed in the last panel. When McCay returned to the Herald in 1924, he revived the strip, and it ran under its original title from August 3, 1924, until January 9, 1927, when McCay returned to Hearst. The strip was renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams when McCay brought it to William Randolph Hearst's New York American, where it ran from September 3, 1911, until July 26, 1914. Little Nemo in Slumberland ran in the New York Herald from October 15, 1905, until July 23, 1911. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color and perspective, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, and its architectural and other details. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, before receiving his own spin-off series, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay.
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