Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.

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.

Mark Sandman was probably the best known proponent ( with Morphine, he performed primarily on a custom two-string slide bass guitar ).

Volume II was nominated for the 2003 award, but lost to The Sandman: Endless Nights.

In Germany and in Austria it was translated to " Das Zauberkarussell ", in Austria there was in 1974 / 75 a special version in " Betthupferl " ( the same as the German " Mr Sandman ") called " Cookie and his friends ", as Cookie and his friend Apollonius always went through a hole in a tree to join the garden.

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 ).

Fate ( and other titles ) was published by National ; Sandman, Hawkman and the Flash were released by All-American.

The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten trade paperbacks.

Fictional crossover | crossover, which was the last to involve pre-Vertigo characters such as Swamp Thing, Black Orchid, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and Shade, the Changing Man, save for The Sandman: Worlds ' End | Worlds ' End s loose connection to Zero Hour: Crisis in Time.

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

However, weeks later Berger asked Gaiman if he was interested in doing a Sandman series.

The debut issue of The Sandman was on sale in October 1988 and cover-dated January 1989.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

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

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.

The Sandman became a cult success for DC Comics and attracted an audience unlike that of mainstream comics: half the readership was female, many were in their twenties, and many read no other comics at all.

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

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 ).

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.

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

Due to critical acclaim and commercial success ( at the time of its conclusion, it was DC ’ s best-selling series ), The Sandman spawned a number of spin-off volumes.

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

2 ; the Black Orchid miniseries ( Neil Gaiman's first work for DC ), the fantasy series The Sandman vol.

She has illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, and dozens of stories and articles, including works written by Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, J. Michael Straczynski, Peter David and Tori Amos, including The Sandman, Wonder Woman, Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans, Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and her own fantasy series, A Distant Soil.

Jack Frost is one of the main characters in the Dreamworks animation Rise of the Guardians where he and his fellow fantasy figures ; Sandman, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus take on the Boogieman who wants to engulf the entire world in nightmares.

* 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.

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

A story in Endless Nights, set long before any other Sandman story, explains the origins of the Desire / Dream enmity, and reveals that before this Desire was Dream's favorite sibling.

" This story, set billions of years before the story-arc of The Sandman, tends to portray the characters in a very different light, showing that even the Endless are not unchanging, with Desire's attitude towards Dream being playful rather than malicious during this early encounter.

* Neil Gaiman's graphic novels The Sandman are partially set in " The Dreaming ", referred to in early volumes as " Dreamtime ", and also reference " Fiddler's Green "

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 ).

* Sandman Mystery Theatre # 1-70 ( solo Sandman series written by Matt Wagner, set in the 1930s and early 1940s ; not strictly in regular DCU continuity )

In 2004, Hi-n-Dry released the Mark Sandman box set Sandbox, which contained two CDs and a DVD of previously unreleased material spanning Sandman's musical career.

Following Azzarello's run, writer Mike Carey took over the title, following his Eisner award-winning title Lucifer, set in the Sandman universe.

Comic book series intended from the beginning to tell a specific, finite story can become longer still, for example Sandman, which lasted 75 issues, or Cerebus the Aardvark, which ran for 300, a goal creator Dave Sim set for himself fairly early in the series ' run, but did not plan from the beginning.

' Sunday Mourning ' is the last episode of Sandman to be set in a contemporary setting, the final two taking place in ancient China and Shakespearian England respectively.

In August 2009 the band covered Metallica's ' Enter Sandman ' during their set at the Sonisphere Festival in tribute to the headlining act.

Dodds and Belmont would themselves guest star in the popular comic Starman ( set in the present day ), appearing as older versions of themselves, and in flashbacks done in the same art-style as Sandman Mystery Theatre.

DC published a new five-issue limited series, Sandman Mystery Theatre: Sleep of Reason, set in 2007 and featuring a new character taking up the Sandman mantle.

On October 5 at Ultimate Jeopardy during a tag match also involving Sandman and Stevie Richards, Lee once again chokeslammed Dreamer from the ECW balcony, this time through four tables set up below.

Using another set of Gran Divas specifically meant for the Gran Sigma, Klein Sandman combines them with his personal unit to form the God Σ Gravion.

She has since written and illustrated several stories featuring the Sandman characters ; these include the manga-style book Death: At Death's Door ( one of DC's best selling books of 2003 ) set during the events of Season of Mists, and The Little Endless Storybook, a children ’ s book using childlike versions of The Endless.

It is set in the same dimension of the DC universe as The Sandman and the stories occurred primarily within Dream's realm, The Dreaming, concentrating on characters who had played minor roles in The Sandman, including The Corinthian, Matthew the raven, Cain and Abel, Lucien the dream librarian, the faerie Nuala, Eve, and Mervyn Pumpkinhead ( janitor of The Dreaming ).