Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

* Morpheus ( DC comics ), a moniker for Dream, a fictional god of dreams in the comic book The Sandman

** Dream of The Endless, the main character of Gaiman's book, sometimes referred as The Sandman

* Sandman, a character in The Real Ghostbusters episode " Sandman, Dream Me A Dream "

* In The Real Ghostbusters in the episode " Mr. Sandman Dream me a Dream ", a rogue sandman is the villain of the episode.

Gaiman had considered including characters from the " Dream Stream " ( including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel ) in a scene for the first issue of his 1988 miniseries Black Orchid.

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.

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.

* 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.

5 ( collecting The Sandman: Endless Nights plus Dream Hunters and Sandman Midnight Theatre ), November 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3202-7

The first volume of The Absolute Sandman was published in November 2006 ; it collected the first 20 issues ( Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll's House, and Dream Country ).

In 1999, Gaiman wrote Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which was illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

As in many of the single-issue stories throughout The Sandman, Morpheus appears in Dream Hunters, but only as a supporting character.

The two Sandmen met in Sandman Midnight Theatre ( 1995 ), and Dream made a few cameos in Mystery Theatre.

* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters ( 2008 – 2009 ): A series of 4 comics based on the novel of the same name.

The Sandman # 19, " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", won the World Fantasy Award in 1991 for Best Short Fiction.

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2000.

* Sandman: The Dream Hunters ( 1999 )

* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters # 1 – 4 ( January – April 2009 )

* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

He is a 5 time winner of the Seiun Award, and also won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

In 2000, Amano illustrated Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which won several awards and was nominated for a Hugo Award.

* Sandman: The Dream Hunters ( 1999 )

* 1999: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman

" The Sandman: The Dream Hunters " is a novella by English author Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

In December 2007, Gaiman noted on his blog, " I learned from Wikipedia that Sandman: The Dream Hunters was actually based on Pu Songling's Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio, which I thought I ought to read.

Sandman: The Dream Hunters was released by Vertigo as a four-issue monthly series from November 2008 to February 2009, featuring cover art by Yuko Shimizu ( not to be confused with the designer of Hello Kitty of the same name ), Mike Mignola, Paul Pope and Joe Kubert.

* The Comics Get Serious -- Review of Sandman: The Dream Hunters

* Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters at Comicbookdb

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* 1999 – Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Morphine and Treat Her Right ) ( b. 1952 )

* 1952 – Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Morphine and Treat Her Right ) ( d. 1999 )

* Sandman Mystery Theatre ( 1993 – 1999 ): A 70-issue series written by Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle featuring the Golden Age Sandman Wesley Dodds in a film-noir like setting.

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

* Sandman Mystery Theatre # 68, 70 ( December 1998 ; February 1999 )

* 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.

Reiber wrote the first fifty issues of the first ongoing The Books of Magic series ( May 94-July 98 ), as well as a number of miniseries, mostly set in the wider Vertigo universe ( and particularly the Sandman / Books of Magic sections )-Mythos: The Final Tour ( 1996-7 ), Hellblazer / The Books of Magic ( 1997-8 ), The Trenchcoat Brigade ( 1999 ), The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story ( 1999 ).

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.

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.

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.

After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack.

On July 3, 1999, Sandman collapsed on the stage of the Nel Nome del Rock festival at the Giardini del Principe in Palestrina, Italy, outside of Rome.

* Mark Sandman – 2-string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar ( 3-string slide guitar ), guitar, piano ( 1989 – 1999 )

In late 1999, Rhino began feuding with The Sandman, and at November to Remember he teamed with the Impact Players to defeat Dreamer, Raven, and Sandman.