(July 1997)

DC, 1996 Series
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Price
1.95 USD; 2.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1997-05-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Suggested for Mature Readers
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
Vertigo; DC Comics
Barcode
761941208466 01211
Editing
Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)

Issue Notes

Incorrectly dated June in indicia; correctly dated July on cover. Indicia also gives the publication date of Sandman (DC, 1989 series) #12 incorrectly as February 1990.

The Doll's House - Part Three (Table of Contents)

Sandman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters
Dave McKean (logo design)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 6.73 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

Black-and-white house ad for Pride & Joy; color house ads: Junk Culture; The Invisibles, Volume 2; subscription ad for Vertigo series; Sandman, The: The Wake trade paperback; Dreaming, The; July 1997 cover date Vertigo shipping list.

Playing House (Table of Contents: 2)

Sandman / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Neil Gaiman
Pencils
Chris Bachalo
Inks
Malcolm Jones III
Colors
Robbie Busch
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original associate editor)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Hippolyta Hall [Lyta]; Sandman [Hector Hall]; Brute; Glob; Jed Paulsen; Barnaby; Clarice; Sandman [Morpheus]; Rose Walker; Fiddler's Green [Gilbert]; Corinthian; Sandman [Garrett Sanford]
Synopsis
Morpheus meets the Hector Hall (Silver Scarab) version of the 1974 DC Sandman character and takes control of the Dream realm that Hector took over in the Infinity Inc. series.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

advertisement / 3 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

The Glimmer Man (Pay-Per-View); Hard Rock Live (VH1); back cover: Spawn movie (HBO)

Next Month: "Men of Good Fortune" (Table of Contents: 4)

Sandman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors
Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters
typeset

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Cover reprint without logos or text.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

On the Ledge / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.27 page (report information)

Script
Ted McKeever
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Promo for Junk Culture.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Doll's House - Part Three
    Sandman
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. Playing House
    Sandman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
  5. 4. Next Month: "Men of Good Fortune"
    Sandman
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    On the Ledge
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • David Whitten