Essential Vertigo: The Sandman #13 [Direct Sales]
(August 1997)

DC, 1996 Series
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Price
1.95 USD; 2.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1997-06-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Suggested for Mature Readers
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
Vertigo; DC Comics
Barcode
761941208466 01311
Editing
Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)

Issue Notes

Incorrectly dated July in indicia; correctly dated August on cover.
This issue has variants:

The Doll's House - Part Four (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) / 1.79 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

B&lack-and-white house ad for 2020 Visions; August 1997 cover date Vertigo shipping list.

Men of Good Fortune (Table of Contents: 2)

Sandman / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Neil Gaiman
Pencils
Michael Zulli
Inks
Steve Parkhouse
Colors
Robbie Busch
Letters
Todd Klein
Editing
Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original associate editor)

Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Sandman [Morpheus]; Death [Teleute]; Robert Gadling; Geoffrey Chaucer; William Shakespeare; Christopher Marlowe; Johanna Constantine
Synopsis
Morpheus meets with Robert Gadling once every hundred years.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Date of original publication taken from GCD; indicia of this issue gives the publication date of Sandman (DC, 1989 series) #13 as March 1990.

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

advertisement / 8 pages (report information)


Indexer Notes

The Ultimate Batman Collection (Warner Home Video); Hard Rock Live (VH1); Wild Arms PlayStation game (Sony); Perversions of Science (HBO); Space Jam (Pay-Per-View); back cover and interior soundtrack ad: Batman & Robin (Warner Bros.).

Next Month: Collectors (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
Characters
Corinthian
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Cover reprint without logos or text.

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

On the Ledge / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.21 page (report information)

Script
Warren Ellis
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Promo for Transmetropolitan (Helix).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Doll's House - Part Four
    Sandman
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. Men of Good Fortune
    Sandman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
  5. 4. Next Month: Collectors
    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