In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by the bizarre figure that has a message for him. The essage in terrifying. What's worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that is only the beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in the strange place deep within Mid-World.

"Contains material originally published in magazine form by Marvel Comics as Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger--The Battle of Tull #1-5"--Title page verso.