In high school, his interest in comic books grew to include what he calls " really weird indie books ," The Tick, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Sandman, Milk & Cheese, and the crime works of Brian Michael Bendis.

According to the protagonist's nurse, he threw sand in the eyes of children who wouldn't sleep, with the result of those eyes falling out and being collected by the Sandman, who then takes the eyes to his iron nest on the moon, and uses them to feed his children.

He goes on to point out that these plot devices help set up the Dream versus Desire conflict that spans The Sandman series.

* Allen " Bert " Christman, bailed out at Rangoon, strafed and killed while parachuting, in January 1942, had earlier scripted and drawn the Scorchy Smith and Sandman comic strips.

Raven's lackeys, Steven Richards and the Blue Meanie, pulled out a giant wooden cross from under the ring, tied Sandman down to it, and lifted it up and " crucified " him.

Levy says he was coerced into the apology by Heyman, who feared a backlash, and was angrily confronted by wrestlers who questioned why Raven did not crucify Sandman on a " Jewish Star ", to which Raven replied that it would not have any philosophical impact on the crowd whatsoever, and joked that they would then have to roll The Sandman out of the arena.

When Electro is shot by Aunt May, an electric surge knocks out Kraven, Sandman, and Vulture.

He convinced Electro to break him and the other members of the Sinister Six ( Vulture, Sandman, Rhino, and Shocker ) out of Ryker's Island to fight Spider-Man.

Apparently, DC Comics ( the owners of The Sandman ) were giving out contracts that included provisions very different than those the editors had originally told the authors when solicited for material.

The other five members are violently killed by the zombie Spider-Man and Sandman flees, later encountering and killing his own reality's Spider-Man out of fear.

When Electro is shot by Aunt May, an electric surge knocks out Kraven, Sandman, and Vulture.

Nick Fury finds out that Spider-Man's team went to the island that Sandman was on and wants them at the Helicarrier for a full scrub-down.

It turns out that Hall has actually died some years before, and that his incarnation as the Sandman is merely a shell that Dream sucks into another part of the Dreaming when he defeats the two creatures.

To an extent, Gadling ( along with the other immortal characters in Sandman ) violates something of a cliché of fantastical stories: physical immortality usually turns out to be a curse in disguise, with the recipient eventually longing for death.

The last member of Octavius ' Sinister Six was revealed to be Gog, and a combat between members of the super hero community summoned by Spider-Man ( including the Fantastic Four, Nova, the Hulk, and Solo ) broke out, ending when the broken-glass body of the Sandman shredded Doctor Octopus, nearly killing him.

A desperate Spider-Man, with help from the Black Cat, broke Osborn out only to be confronted with the Vulture, Sandman, Electro, Chameleon, Lizard, Hydro-Man, Shocker, Hammerhead, Boomerang, and Tombstone.

Along the way, he breaks out fellow prisoners Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, and Vulture ( who replaces Spider-Man ).

After taking out Vulture and Electro, Sandman and Rhino attacked.

He bails Flint Marko and Alex O ' Hirn out of jail, only to subject them to Osborn's illegal experiments that turn them into Sandman and Rhino.

He was later seen helping the Sinister Six, Ox, and Fancy Dan break out of jail, and employing Sandman to steal a large oil tanker for profit.

Spider-Man tricks Electro into knocking out the Wizard before he and Mister Fantastic trap Sandman and Electro in a vacuum cleaner and a fire-hose respectively.

Also, the last verse is left out, ending the song with the heavily distorted guitar solo by Hetfield, and usually fading into " Enter Sandman ".

The Sandman ute was phased out of production prior to the van, the last of which was manufactured around October 1979.

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 ".

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.

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.

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 ).