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By issue # 11, Gaiman began incorporating elements of the Kirby Sandman series, including the changes implemented by Thomas.

Simon and Fleisher had treated the character, who resembled a superhero, as the " true " Sandman.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

Gaiman gave Jed Walker a surname and made him related to several new characters, and treated his relationship with Uncle Barnaby and Aunt Clarice as abusive rather than Cinderella-esque.

The Thomas Sandman was Hector Hall, who married the already-pregnant Fury in the Dreaming in Infinity, Inc. # 51.

It was explained that Dr. Garrett Sanford, the original Brute / Glob Sandman, had gone insane from the loneliness of the Dream Dimension and taken his own life.

Brute and Glob put the spirit of Hector Hall, which had been cast out of his own body by the Silver Scarab, into Sanford's body, and it eventually began to resemble Hall's.

Fury, in her civilian guise as Lyta Hall after these issues, was the only major superhero recurring character in the series.

Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.