Sandman said: `` The announcement that Sen. Clifford Case Aj, has decided to spend all his available time campaigning for Mr. Mitchell is a dead giveaway.

The Sandman is a figure in folklore who brings good sleep and dreams.

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 ".

* 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.

Ishtar is also a love interest for Destruction of The Endless in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series.

A Game of You ( 1993 ) is the fifth collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.

Gaiman often characterises Sandman stories as " male " or " female "; A Game of You, dominated by female characters and points of view, is one of his female stories.

Brief Lives ( 1994 ) is the seventh collection of issues in the DC Comics series, The Sandman.

His disbelief is met with one of the most memorable lines of The Sandman, “ You lived what anybody gets, Bernie.

The Wake is the tenth and final collection of issues in the comic book series The Sandman.

The Sandman is a mythical character in Northern European folklore who brings good dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto the eyes of children while they sleep at night.

The Sandman is a popular character in folklore referenced in popular culture over several centuries.

* The 1957 Soviet cartoon " The Snow Queen " is introduced by the Sandman who is depicted as an elf who puts children into a trance ( sleep ) using a black umbrella which causes a dreamless sleep or a colourful umbrella which causes dreams.

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

The title is a reference to the lyrics of the song Mr. Sandman.

* In The Fairly OddParents episode " Beddy Bye ", the Sandman ( voiced by Jackie Mason ) is a mattress retail magnate and is referred to as Harvey Sandman and the Mattress King.

* In The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, there is a character name Steven the Sandman ( voiced by Daran Norris ).

* The Sandman is a likely influence for the Pokémon character Hypno as well as the mythical Japanese creature Baku.

* A weapon from the videogame Team Fortress 2 is called " The Sandman ", a wooden bat that can launch a baseball which stuns enemies on impact.

* The Sandman is mentioned in the lyrics of the opening theme song of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: " It's hard to stay up, it's been a long, long day, and you've got the Sandman at your door.

* Eve ( DC Comics ), in the Sandman comic book series

* Neil Gaiman, in the first issue of his comic Sandman, introduced the grimoire titled Grimorium Magdelene.

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

* Sandman ( Marvel Comics ), a comic book super villain who can transform his body into sand

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

** Sandman ( Wesley Dodds ), a comic book superhero first appearing in the 1930s

Livia appears in Neil Gaiman's comic " Distant Mirrors-August " collected in The Sandman: Fables and Reflections.

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

While months later Berger offered Gaiman a comic title to work on, he was unsure his Sandman pitch would be accepted.

The Sandman was initially published as a monthly serial, in 32-page comic books ( with some exceptions to this pattern ).

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.

IGN declared The Sandman as the best ever Vertigo comic.

* The Sandman: The Kindly Ones ( 1996 ), the ninth volume of The Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman

He is one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Like Lucien, Cain and Abel and some other Sandman characters, Destiny first appeared as host of a 1970s DC horror comic, Weird Mystery Tales.

Dream is a fictional character and the protagonist of DC Comics ' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman.

Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

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

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

The first volume of The Annotated Sandman was published by DC Comics in January 2012 as a large 12 " by 12 " black-and-white book with an introduction by Gaiman.

The Corinthian is a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

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.

Also, in The Sandman issue " Calliope " written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by Kelley Jones, a character, Richard Madoc, writes a book " The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari ", an obvious pseudonym.

Constantine has made appearances in other comic book titles, such as Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and Shade, the Changing Man.

In The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes book, The Land of Nod is a pun on the mythical land of sleep, or The Dreaming, Cain's destination after murdering his brother.

* Sandman Mystery Theatre, a 1990s comic book devoted to the character of Wesley Dodds, the Golden-Age Sandman