It’s better to know the world of Dream before reading it, but you still can start with it. It’s a prequel mini-series about the events that occurred before Dream’s incarceration in the first issue of The Sandman. The miniseries is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Neil Gaiman.Ĭollects The Sandman: Overture #1-6.

See below.Ī classic short story collection by Neil Gaiman.Ĭollects Sandman: The Dream Hunters #1-4. It was followed by the anthology The Sandman Presents when The Dreaming became more serialized.

After the end of the Sandman original run, Vertigo launched a new spin-off called The Dreaming.

This is the end of the original run of the series. It is a crossover with the 1930s set Matt Wagner’s Sandman Mystery Theatre series (take place between #36 & #37 of that series)Ĭollects The Sandman #70–75. This one-off collected in Neil Gaiman’s Midnight Days Deluxe Edition takes place during Dream’s imprisonment, but there’s an epilogue in The Sandman #72. A few years later, a new continuing series started, picking up the story from that point – the reading guide is here.Ĭollects Death’s miniseries, Death: The High Cost of Living and Death: The Time of Your Life.Ĭollects The Sandman #29-31, #38-40, #50, Sandman Special #1 and Vertigo Preview #1.Ĭollects The Sandman #57-69 and Vertigo Jam #1. The storyline of Lucifer in The Sandman series ends here. 84 (March 1989) in which Dream and Eve allow Matthew Cable to live in the Dreaming, because he died there, resurrecting him as a raven.

We met Matthew the Raven in The Sandman #11, but his origins are in Swamp Thing vol. 19 (a really optional read) that takes place before The Sandman #3. It’s a journey in a metaphorical world that blends mythology and history with thoughtful and complex characters.įrom The Sandman grew a whole universe of series, miniseries, and one-shots, from the successful Lucifer to the cult Death miniseries.ĭream of the Endless made a brief apparition in Hellblazer No. During his 70 years of captivity, nobody controlled the dream world and, when Dream won back his liberty, he needed to rebuild his kingdom in order to get back his powers.

The story began with the capture of Dream (aka Morpheus). In simple terms, he is the personification of dreams. He is the all-powerful master of the Dreamworld. This is about Dream, one of the seven Endless. When DC offered Neil Gaiman the possibility to write a new series, his only obligation was to keep the name. Before becoming one of Vertigo’s hits, The Sandman was a DC series created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby and published between 19.

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