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The Sandman Special # 1 implies that Morpheus is one and the same as the Greek deity of that name ( in DC comics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in George Pérez's Wonder Woman # 11 ( December 1987 ) — what relation this figure, an old man dressed in purple vaguely resembling Agatha Harkness, has to this aspect of Dream is unclear ).
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* 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.
Fables and Reflections also includes the Sandman Special, originally published as a stand-alone issue, which assimilates the myth of Orpheus into the Sandman mythos, as well as a very short Sandman story from the Vertigo Preview promotional comic.
3 ( collecting The Sandman # 40 – 56, along with " Fear of Falling " from the Vertigo Preview, and " The Song of Orpheus " from the Sandman Special ), June 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1084-8
In The Sandman Special # 1, he was also referred to by his Greek name, Potmos.
* The Sandman Special # 1 ( November 1991 )
After Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess won the 1991 Short Fiction award in 1991 — for the " A Midsummer Night's Dream " issue of The Sandman — comics were restricted to the Special Award: Professional category.
* Special Unit 2: In the episode " The Grain ," a housewife, under the influence of the Sandman, robs a convenience store, demanding all the cash, and a pack of Morleys.
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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 ".
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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.
* 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 and 1
1 ( collecting The Sandman # 1 – 20 ), November 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1082-1
In fact, Gaiman explains that Sandman artist, Dave McKean, based Dream's face in the cover of Sandman # 1 on Peter Murphy.
* Sandman Mystery Theatre # 1 ( April 1993 )
* The Sandman: The Dream Hunters # 1 – 4 ( January – April 2009 )
Debuting alongside ongoing former-DC series Swamp Thing # 129, Hellblazer # 63, Sandman # 47, Doom Patrol # 64, Animal Man # 57, and Shade, the Changing Man # 33, the first new comic book printed under the " Vertigo " imprint was Death: The High Cost of Living # 1, debuting a scant couple of weeks before Enigma # 1 in January ( March ) 1993.
* Sandman Mystery Theatre Annual # 1
It is later revealed in Marvel Zombies Return # 1 that this Sandman was infected by his reality's Spider-Man.
In it, he steals the Goliath Diamond and orders a $ 1 million ransom, and since Spider-Man gets framed for the robbery for being seen at the museum, he must defeat Sandman so that he can clear his name.
The Sandman also becomes an honorary member of the Justice League in Justice League of America Annual # 1 ( 1983 ) ( written by Paul Levitz and Len Wein ), in which they fought Doctor Destiny, who had trapped Sanford in a tube like those used for Brute and Glob, and eventually the Justice League as well.
* Sandman: Three Septembers and a January ( called " The Last Emperor of America ", in Czech ) Part 1 ( C )
* The Sandman ( Wesley Dodds ) in New York World's Fair # 1 created by Gardner Fox and Bert Christman, published by National Periodical Publications
The Little Sandman himself first appeared on screen in West Berlin in Sandmännchens Gruß für Kinder ( Sandmännchen's Greeting to Children ) on 1 December 1959, and other episodes were soon made.
Sandman and Morpheus
* Morpheus ( DC comics ), a moniker for Dream, a fictional god of dreams in the comic book The Sandman
When Lucifer gives Hell's key ( and therefore, the ownership of Hell ) to the Sandman, Morpheus himself becomes trapped in a tangled network of threats, promises, and lies, as gods and demons from various pantheons seek ownership of Hell.
As in many of the single-issue stories throughout The Sandman, Morpheus appears in Dream Hunters, but only as a supporting character.
Gaiman has announced that to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Sandman, a new volume will be produced ; it will include a story about the victory that had exhausted Morpheus prior to the beginning of the original story.
* Sandman Midnight Theatre ( 1995 ): Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman, meets Lord Morpheus of the Endless, the Modern Age Sandman.
It is implied that before his imprisonment he was in some ways crueler and more blind to his flaws, and much of The Sandman is focused on Morpheus ' desire to atone for his past behavior ( e. g., helping past lovers Calliope and Nada ).
Since the creation of the Vertigo imprint ( itself largely inspired by the success of DC Comics ' increasingly mature titles such as Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Hellblazer, and The Sandman ), DC's horror / occult characters such as Morpheus have drifted progressively further away both from DC continuity and from each other.
* Morpheus, under the name of Dream, is the principal character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
In the Sandman series Morpheus is also the father of Orpheus, the famed musician of Greek mythology.
The Wachowski brothers ( co-writers and directors of The Matrix films ) were fans of Neil Gaiman and based the character of Morpheus on the title character from the comic book The Sandman, also adopting one of his most common pseudonyms, Morpheus.
Mervyn's first appearance in The Sandman # 5 ( May 1989 ) had him driving a bus, helping to transport Morpheus on his quest.
** The Sandman ( Vertigo ), a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and centers around the protagonist, Dream / Morpheus, the immortal anthropomorphic personification of dreams
In the course of Gaiman's story arcs, it is shown that the other DC Sandman characters were in various ways derived from Morpheus or his activities.
In the first volume of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Sandman, the newly freed Morpheus, lord of Dreams, punishes his captor, Alexander Burgess, with endless false awakening nightmares.
In Neil Gaiman's " Sandman " series a handyman figure named Mervyn Pumpkinhead, clearly modeled on Jack, works for Morpheus in the Dreaming, painting and building dreams.
* Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of graphic novels feature a character created by Morpheus (" the Sandman ") called the Corinthian, who steals the eyes of his victims, similarly to Hoffman's Sandman.
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