(January 1997)
- Volume:
- ?
- Price:
- 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
- Pages:
- 40
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- Brand:
- Vertigo; DC
- Barcode:
- ?
- Editing:
- Karen Berger
- Format:
- Color; Standard Modern US; Saddle-stitched; Newsprint; monthly series
Issue Notes
This comic has a second "cover" (a glossy Dave McKean art page) set inside where the first interior story page would normally be. So it's cover, ad, "cover", story. Cover date is incorrectly listed as November 1996.
[Interior cover]
The Dreaming / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Dave McKean (painter & photographer)
- Inks:
- Dave McKean (painter & photographer)
- Colors:
- Dave McKean (painter & photographer)
Content Information
- Genre:
- Fantasy
- Characters:
- Seth
Indexer Notes
See notes on cover sequence for more information on this sequence.
His Brother's Keeper
The Dreaming / comic story / 24 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Alisa Kwitney
- Pencils:
- Michael Zulli
- Inks:
- Michael Zulli
- Colors:
- Daniel Vozzo
- Letters:
- Todd Klein
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Seth (Cain & Abel's younger brother); Cain; Abel; Lucien; Eve; Matthew the raven; Jumella (Cain's wife); Gregory; Zoe Levine; Dana Cleveland; Byron Manning
- Synopsis:
- Seth returns and lets Cain's mad wife Jumella out of the attic where Cain had kept her.
- Reprints:
- Reprint Note before Migration:
- in Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night, The (DC, 1998 series) #nn
in Indexer Notes
True origin of Cain who originally killed Abel for Abel's wife, Aclima.
[Three "lost pages" from The Wake]
Sandman / comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Neil Gaiman
- Pencils:
- Michael Zulli
- Inks:
- Michael Zulli
- Colors:
- Daniel Vozzo? (uncredited but did The Wake's coloring)
- Letters:
- Todd Klein? (uncredited but did The Wake's lettering)
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Characters:
- Sandman (Dream); Orpheus
- Reprints:
- in Sandman: The Wake, The (DC, 1996 series) #nn
- in Sandman: The Wake, The (DC, 1997 series) #nn
Indexer Notes
Follows p. 16 in Sandman, The #72 (DC, 1989 series). The script wasn't done in time for inclusion in the original comic, so the pencils weren't drawn until the hardcover reprint was prepared.
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
His Brother's Keeper
The Dreaming -
1.
[Interior cover]
The Dreaming -
2.
His Brother's Keeper
The Dreaming -
3.
[Three "lost pages" from The Wake]
Sandman
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- Mike Nielsen
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