* The Sandman Presents ( 1999 – 2004 ): A collection of limited series by various authors and illustrators featuring secondary characters from The Sandman.

( The title was previously used for a The Sandman Presents limited series about the same characters by Ed Brubaker.

* The Sandman Presents: Love Street # 3 ( September 1999 )

She ( co -) edited the final 25 issues of The Dreaming between 1999 and 2001, initially as Shelly Roeberg, and latterly as Shelly Bond ( after marrying artist Philip Bond ), and most of the Sandman Presents ... miniseries and one-shots.

Mike Carey, having started his American comics career with Caliber Comics in the mid-1990s catapulted to prominence in March 1999 with the first issue of his Sandman spin-off miniseries Sandman Presents: Lucifer, which would lead to an on-going series a year later and considerable praise and projects for Carey.

A second Sandman miniseries-Sandman Presents: Petrefax ( 2000 )-soon followed, before the June 2000 debut of Lucifer.

During this time, Carey also wrote the hardcover OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies ( 2002 ), over 40 issues of Hellblazer between 2002 and 2006 and a 2005 Hellblazer original graphic novel, All His Engines.

His 2001 miniseries Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives told the story of some incidental Sandman characters, and was later retold by Jill Thompson in manga form ( 2005 ).

Bill Willingham came to Vertigo after a plethora of small press work in 1999 to launch his poker miniseries Proposition Player ( 1999 – 2000 ), and contribute to the Sandman universe with a one-shot spy-spoof-Sandman Presents: Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D. R. E. A. M.

A second Sandman one-shot-The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams ... ( 2001 )-also led to a 4-issue miniseries, Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad ( 2002 ).

In 2004, he returned to the world of the Sandman with Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire, and 2006 saw the debut of the Vertigo-esque magical-but mainstream DCU title-Shadowpact and Fables companion series Jack of Fables.

Between 1997 and 2002, he contributed artwork on fill-in issues ( or to jam issues ) of Crusades, The Dreaming, Flinch, House of Secrets, The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams ..., Totems, Weird War Tales and Weird Western Tales.

In addition, his cover work graced the 1999 miniseries Sandman Presents: Love Street, six issues of The Books of Magick: Life During Wartime and the first fifteen issues of Mike Carey's Lucifer.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

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Kiernan contributed a story to this new post-Dreaming era, the three issue The Sandman Presents: Bast featuring the cat goddess introduced in the Season of Mists storyline.

* Bast, The Sandman ( Vertigo ) depiction of the goddess

However, the Silver Age Krypton made a rare post-Crisis appearance in The Sandman # 48, during a flashback sequence featuring Death and Destruction of The Endless, beings who were evidently unaffected by the reality-altering events of the Crisis.

In 1939, Fox co-created ( with artist Bert Christman ) the character of the Sandman, a gasmask-wearing costumed crime-fighter whose first appearance in Adventure Comics # 40 ( July 1939 ) was pre-empted by an appearance in New York World's Fair Comics ( for which Fox also wrote a Zatara story ).

Fox had worked on the Hawkman, Flash and Sandman features in All-Star for its first two issues ( Summer and Autumn, 1940 ), but from issue # 3 ( Winter ), he assumed full writing duties for the issue, with all features ( by different artists ) working within the framing device wherein the characters were described as part of a " Justice Society ".

# REDIRECT The Sandman: The Doll's House

# REDIRECT The Sandman: A Game of You

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

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

3, # 9, which takes place at a point during the 70 years of the first issue, as does Sandman Midnight Theatre, a 1995 Gaiman-penned prestige format one-shot in which Dream and Wesley Dodds meet in person after the events in the storyline, " The Python ," which ended with Dodds's lover, Dian Belmont, going to England, which eventually brings both her and Dodds to Roderick Burgess's mansion.

* Preludes and Nocturnes ( collecting The Sandman # 1 – 8, 1988 – 1989, ISBN 1-56389-011-9 ): Dream is imprisoned for decades by an occultist seeking immortality.

* The Doll's House ( collecting The Sandman # 9 – 16, 1989 – 1990, ISBN 0-930289-59-5 ): Morpheus tracks down rogue dreams that escaped the Dreaming during his absence.

* Dream Country ( collecting The Sandman # 17 – 20, 1990, ISBN 1-56389-016-X ): This volume contains four independent stories.

* Season of Mists ( collecting The Sandman # 21 – 28, 1990 – 1991, ISBN 1-56389-041-0 ): Dream travels to Hell to free a former lover, Nada, whom he condemned to torment thousands of years ago.

* A Game of You ( collecting The Sandman # 32 – 37, 1991 – 1992, ISBN 1-56389-089-5 ): Barbie, a New York divorcée ( introduced in The Doll's House ), travels to the magical realm that she once inhabited in her dreams, only to find that it is being threatened by the forces of the Cuckoo.

* Fables and Reflections ( collecting The Sandman # 29 – 31, 38 – 40, 50 ; Sandman Special # 1 ; and Vertigo Preview # 1, 1991 – 1993, ISBN 1-56389-105-0 ): A collection of short stories set throughout Morpheus ' history, most of them originally published directly before or directly after the " Game of You " story arc.

* Brief Lives ( collecting The Sandman # 41 – 49, 1992 – 1993, ISBN 1-85286-577-6 ): Dream's erratic younger sister Delirium convinces him to help her search for their missing brother, the former Endless Destruction, who left his place among the " family " three hundred years before.

* Worlds ' End ( collecting The Sandman # 51 – 56, 1993, ISBN 1-4176-8617-0 ): A " reality storm " ( see Zero Hour: Crisis in Time ) strands travelers from across the cosmos at the " Worlds ' End Inn ".

* The Kindly Ones ( collecting The Sandman # 57 – 69 and Vertigo Jam # 1, 1993 – 1995, ISBN 1-56389-204-9 ): In the longest Sandman story, Morpheus becomes the prey of the Furies, avenging spirits who torment those who spill family blood.

* Sandman # 2-3 ( 1975 )

Atkins's first hit single was " Mr. Sandman ", followed by " Silver Bell ", which he did as a duet with Hank Snow.

In an effort to reduce the use of kryptonite in Superman storylines, all known kryptonite on Earth was transmuted into " k-iron " in a 1971 storyline titled " The Sandman Saga ", though kryptonite could still be synthetically manufactured by a variety of known and unknown means, and additional material left over from the destruction of Krypton would continue to fall from space.

* 1998 – ECW: Extreme Music – contains a cover of Metallica's " Enter Sandman " by Motorhead.

* The Sandman ( Vertigo ), a comic book written by Neil Gaiman

* Sandman ( DC Comics ), the name of many superhero characters published by DC Comics

* Sandman, antagonist and beachcomber in the psychological thriller " Sandman " by Ian Kingsley

* The Sandman ( book ), a children's book by Ralph Fletcher

* The Sandman ( novel ), a novel by Miles Gibson

* The Sandman: Endless Nights, a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman

* The Sandman ( 2000 film ), a 2000 short film by the Brothers Quay

* Sandman ( 1993 film ), an indie horror movie directed by Eric Woster and co-written by Frank Rhodes

* Sandman ( album ), a 1976 album by Harry Nilsson

*" Mr. Sandman ", a song by the Chordettes and others

*" Mr. Sandman ", a song on the album Tical by Method Man

*" Sandman ", a song by America ( band )

*" Sandman ", a song by Marvin Gaye

*" Enter Sandman ", a song by Metallica

Although created before the two met, the character Delirium from Gaiman's The Sandman series ( or even her sister Death ) is inspired by Amos ; Gaiman has stated that they " steal shamelessly from each other ".

* “ Valóság and Élet ” in Sandman: Book of Dreams ( 1996, edited by Neil Gaiman and Edward E. Kramer )

* In the Vertigo comic book series, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, the notion that Faerie pays a sacrificial tithe to Hell is mentioned in the storyline " Season of Mists ".

According to the story " Heart of a Star " in the Sandman: Endless Nights graphic novel, Oa's star is called Sto-Oa ( the Light of Oa ) by the children of the planet's inhabitants.