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THE SANDMAN

Fantasy, Horror, Super-Hero

House AdThe award-winning Sandman follows the return of Dream, the personification of hopes and dreams, to his domain after being trapped and held prisoner for 70 years and his quest to regain the powers he once possessed. It also follows his family, known as the Endless. The concept of The Sandman emerged from Neil Gaiman's idea to revive Jack Kirby's 1970's Sandman series after his Black Orchid mini series at DC Editor Karen Berger suggested he keep the Sandman name but create the rest of the series entirely from scratch. Using ideas he had of a character that lived in dreams, Gaiman created the character of Morpheus, a literal take on the folklore concept of the Sandman and a personification of dreaming itself. With this, Gaiman revived several dormant DC horror and mystery characters and populated his world of The Dreaming with them. The series soon evolved beyond its DC Universe horror origins and became one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy comic series of all time, regularly outselling its superhero counterparts toward its end and introducing comics to whole new audiences outside of the comics mainstream. The collected editions have been reprinted numerous times and remain best sellers for DC/Vertigo. The series was originally a DC book, but was one of the original titles moved onto the new Vertigo label with issue #47. Gaiman ended the series at 75 issues, but the run also included The Sandman Special (1991). PencillersSam Kieth #1-5, 20 (TOT 6)Mike Dringenberg #6-11, 14-16, 21, 28 (TOT 11)Chris Bachalo #12Michael Zulli #13, 53, 70-73 (TOT 6)Kelly Jones #17, 18, 22-24, 26, 27 (TOT 7)Charles Vess #19, 62, 75Matt Wagner #25Stan Woch #29Bryan Talbot #30, 36, 51-56 (TOT 8)Shawn McManus#31-33, 35-37 (TOT 6)Colleen Doran #34Duncan Eagleson #38John Watkiss #39, 52Jill Thompson #40-49 (TOT 9)P Craig Russell #50Alec Stevens #51Mike Allred #54Shea Anton Pensa #55Gary Amaro #56Marc Hempel#57-61, 63, 65-69 (TOT 11)Glyn Dillon #62Teddy Kristiansen #64Jon J Muth #74Spin-OffsThe series proved so popular that numerous spin-off titles were written, both by Gaiman and those that emerged after Gaiman's initial series ended. They include: The Dead Boy Detectives (Original Graphic Novel)Dead Boy Detectives (Ongoing Series)Death: The Time of Your Life (Mini-Series)Death: The High Cost of Living (Mini-Series)Death: At Death's Door (Original Graphic Novel)Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel)Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (Mini-Series)The Dreaming (Ongoing Series)The Girl Who Would Be Death (Mini-Series)The Dreaming Special (One Shot)God Save the Queen (Original Graphic Novel)House of Mystery (Ongoing Series)Mythos: The Final Tour (mini-series)House of Mystery Halloween Annual (Annual)Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel)Lucifer (Ongoing Series)Sandman: Book of Dreams (Prose Anthology)Sandman Midnight Theater (One-Shot )The Sandman Presents: WitchCraft (Mini-Series) Bast (Mini-Series)The Corinthian: Death in Venice (Mini-Series)The Dead Boy Detectives (Mini-Series)Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams but Were Afraid to Ask (One-Shot)The Furies (Original Graphic Novel)Lucifer (Mini-Series)Love Street (Mini-Series)Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of DREAM (One-Shot)Petrefax (Mini-Series)The Thessaliad (Mini-Series)Thessaly: Witch for Hire (Mini-Series)WitchCraft: La Terreur (Mini-Series)*ongoing series are in bold Trade Paperbacks/HardcoversThe entirety of the Sandman series collected, albeit out of chronological order, in both soft and hardcover formats. The most recent printings have had their interior art recolored. (This recoloring originally premiered in the Absolute Editions years earlier and was approved by Gaiman.) Trade paperbacksThe Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (#1-8)DC Through the 80's: The Experiments (#8)The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House (#9-16)The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country (#17-20)The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists (#21-28)The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You (#32-37)The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (#29-31, 38-40, 50, Sandman Special #1, and "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1)The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives (#41-49)The Sandman Vol. 8: World's End (#51-56)The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones (#57-69 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam #1)The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake (#70-75)The Sandman Vol. 11 Endless Nights (OGN)The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella)The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (The Sandman Dream Hunters #1-4)The Sandman: Overture (The Sandman: Overture #1-6)Deluxe editionsThe Sandman Deluxe Edition Book One (#1-16)The Sandman Deluxe Edition Book Two (#17-31)The Sandman Deluxe Edition Book Three (#32-50)The Sandman Deluxe Edition Book Four (#51-69)The Sandman Deluxe Edition Book Five (#70-75, Endless Nights, The Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella), and The Dream Hunters #1-4)30th Anniversary Trade PaperbacksThe Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes (#1-8)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 2: The Doll's House (#9-16)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 3: Dream Country (#17-20)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 4: Season of Mists (#21-28)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 5: A Game of You (#32-37)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections (#29-31 & 38-50, Sandman Special #1, and "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 7: Brief Lives (#41-49)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 8: World's End (#51-56)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 9: Kindly Ones (#57-69 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam #1)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 10: The Wake (#70-75)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. 11: Endless NightsThe Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition: The Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition: The Dream Hunters (The Sandman: Dream Hunters #1-4 Mini-Series)The Sandman 30th Anniversary Edition Vol. ∞: (The Sandman: Overture #1-6)Absolute EditionsOversized hardcover re-releases that re-colored and collected the entire series chronologically for the first time. Comes packaged in a special slipcase. Absolute Sandman Vol. 1 (#1-20)Absolute Sandman Vol. 2 (#21-39)Absolute Sandman Vol. 3 (#40-56, Sandman Special #1 and "Fear of Falling" from Vertigo Preview #1)Absolute Sandman Vol. 4 (#57-75 and "The Castle" from Vertigo Jam #1)Absolute Sandman Vol. 5 (The Sandman: Endless Nights, The Sandman: Dream Hunters (Illustrated Novella), The Sandman: Dream Hunters (Mini-Series), Sandman Midnight Theatre)Absolute Sandman Overture (The Sandman: Overture #1-6)Absolute Death (Death: The High Cost of Living #1-3, Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3, The Sandman #8, The Sandman #20, "A Winter's Tale" from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2, "The Wheel" from the 9-11 tribute book and more)Annotated EditionsThe original series collected and accompanied by page-by-page annotations by Leslie S. Klinger. The Annotated Sandman Vol. 1 (#1-20)The Annotated Sandman Vol. 2 (#21-39)The Annotated Sandman Vol. 3 (#40-56, The Sandman Special #1 and "How They Met Themselves" from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3)The Annotated Sandman Vol. 4 (#57-75)OmnibusesMassive oversized collections of the original series. The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1 (#1-37 and The Sandman Special #1)The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 2 (#38-75 and stories from Vertigo Jam #1 and Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3)The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 3 (The Sandman: Overture #1-6, The Sandman: Dream Hunters #1-4, Death: The High Cost of Living #1-3 and Death: The Time of Your Life #1-3, plus variant covers and extra bonus stories)

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1 “Sleep of the Just”

January 1989

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10 “The Doll's House, Part 1: The Doll's House”

November 1989

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11 “The Doll's House, Part 2: Moving in”

December 1989

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12 “The Doll's House, Part 3: Playing House”

January 1990

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13 “The Doll's House, Part 4: Men of Good Fortune”

March 1990

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14 “The Doll's House, Part 5: Collectors”

March 1990

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15 “The Doll's House, Part 6: Into the Night”

April 1990

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16 “The Doll's House, Part 7: Lost Hearts”

June 1990

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17 “Dream Country: Calliope”

July 1990

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18 “Dream Country: A Dream of a Thousand Cats”

August 1990

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19 “Dream Country: A Midsummer Night's Dream”

September 1990

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2 “Master of Dreams, Part 2: Imperfect Hosts”

March 1989

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20 “Dream Country: Façade”

October 1990

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21 “Season of Mists: Prologue”

December 1990

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22 “Season of Mists: Chapter 1”

January 1991

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23 “Season of Mists: Chapter 2”

February 1991

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24 “Season of Mists: Chapter 3”

March 1991

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25 “Season of Mists: Chapter 4”

April 1991

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26 “Season of Mists: Chapter 5”

May 1991

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27 “Season of Mists: Chapter 6”

June 1991

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28 “Season of Mists: Epilogue”

July 1991

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29 “Thermidor”

August 1991

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3 “Master of Dreams, Part 3: Dream a Little Dream of Me”

March 1989

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30 “August”

September 1991

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31 “Three Septembers and a January”

October 1991

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32 “A Game of You, Part 1: Slaughter on Fifth Avenue”

November 1991

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33 “A Game of You, Part 2: Lullabies of Broadway”

December 1991

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34 “A Game of You, Part 3: Bad Moon Rising”

January 1992

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35 “A Game of You, Part 4: Beginning to See the Light”

February 1992

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36 “A Game of You, Part 5: Over the Sea to Sky”

April 1992

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37 “A Game of You, Part 6: I Woke Up and One of Us Was Crying”

May 1992

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38 “The Hunt”

June 1992

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39 “Soft Places”

July 1992

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4 “Master of Dreams, Part 4: A Hope in Hell”

April 1989

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40 “The Parliament of Rooks”

August 1992

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41 “Brief Lives 1: Blossom for a Lady - Rain in the Doorway - Not Her Sister-Want/Not Want - The View from the Backs of Mirrors - Journal of the Plague Year - The Number You Have Dialed...”

September 1992

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42 “Brief Lives 2: It Always Rains on the Unloved - Wet Dreams - A Fishing Expedition - She Kisses Wyverns (The Disneyland Analogy) - Dinner Etiquette and Chocolate Lovers - Desire Swears by the First Circle - Things Are Changing - What Can Possibly Go Wrong?”

October 1992

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43 “Brief Lives 3: The People Who Remember Atlantis - Concerning Mammoths, and Falling Walls - Who Controls Transportation? - Bored, She Makes Little Frogs - Truth or Consequences, and Other Places - Ancestral Voices Prophesying - The Dogs of Art - When I Dre”

November 1992

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44 “Brief Lives 4: The Other Side of the Sky - A Bear and His Shadow - Departed Secrets - Twinkle's a Nice Word. So's Viridian. - Three Keys - A Treatise on Optics -The Perils of Smoking in Bed?”

December 1992

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45 “Brief Lives 5: The Things We Do to Be Loved - Her Hands Do Not Go tothe Moon - The Driving Instructor - Tiffany Watches I - White Knights and/or Pond-Scum - Are Dalmations Flowers? - Nancy Displays Her Erudition -Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am - Tiffany Watches”

January 1993

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46 “Brief Lives 6: Life Isn't Pleasant, Petrified - The Parting of the Ways - The Trouble with Mortals - Dreamings of Meeting or Meetings of Dreaming? - The Trouble with Gods - Mervyn Sets Him Straight - Have You Got Anything with a Happy Ending? - Tempus Fra”

March 1993

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47 “Brief Lives 7: Cooking Considered as One of the Fine Arts -"My Envelope Isn't Any Good Anymore" - Where All Mazes Meet - The Other Side of the Coin - Life as a Glass of Bitter Wine - Cherries Are Counted, and a Bargain Is Made - An Unlikely Growth”

March 1993

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48 “Brief Lives 8: Journey's End - Brains, a Heart, a Ride in a Balloon - Dinner - Something New - The Illusion of Permanence - A Wreath of Bright Stars - Echoes of Darkness - Up. Out.”

April 1993

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