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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published November 1996
Cover Price 1.95
Pages 36
Editing Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)

Cover Details - "Preludes & Nocturnes"

Characters Lucifer
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters Dave McKean (logo design)
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #4 (April 1989) [with new text and border added]

3 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes B&W house ad for Blood: A Tale; colour house ads: Dhampire: Stillborn; Vertigo trade paperback list; November 1996 cover date Vertigo shipping list

24 page Sandman [The Dreaming]; Lucifer story "A Hope in Hell"

Characters Sandman [Morpheus]; Squatterbloat; Etrigan; Nada; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Azazel; Choronzon; Agony; Ecstasy; John Dee [Doctor Destiny]
Synopsis Morpheus goes to Hell to reclaim his helmet.
Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Pencils Sam Kieth; Mike Dringenberg
Inks Mike Dringenberg
Colors Robbie Busch
Letters Todd Klein
Editing Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original asst. editor)
Notes no credits given in this issue; credits listed taken from the GCD index for the original publication of this story
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #4 (April 1989)

6 page advertisement

Notes The City On The Edge Of Forever script (White Wolf); Jumping Flash! 2 PlayStation game (Sony); Soul Coughing & Geggy Tah CDs (Sam Goody); Undisputed Attitude (Slayer) CD; Heat (Pay-Per-View); back cover: Sliders (Fox Broadcasting Company)

1 page Sandman [The Dreaming] recap "Essential Vertigo The Sandman"

Genre fantasy
Script Bob Kahan?
Letters typeset
Notes recap of issues 1-3 stories and preview of issue 5 story; list of Vertigo Sandman trade paperbacks

Half page On The Ledge promo (ad from the publisher) "On The Ledge"

Script Nancy A. Collins
Letters typeset
Notes promo for Dhampire: Stillborn