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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published April 1997
Cover Price 1.95
Pages 36
Editing Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)

Cover Details - "the Doll's House-prelude"

Characters Sandman [Morpheus]
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) #9 (September 1989) [with new text and border added]

6 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes B&W house ad for Books Of Magic: Reckonings; colour house ads: Unknown Soldier; Sandman Mystery Theatre; subscription ad for Vertigo series; The Invisibles, Volume 2; The Shade; April 1997 cover date Vertigo shipping list

24 page Sandman [The Dreaming] story "Tales in the Sand"

Characters Nada; Sandman [Morpheus]; Abel; Cain
Synopsis The story of the romance of Nada and Morpheus.
Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Pencils Mike Dringenberg
Inks Malcolm Jones III
Colors Robbie Busch
Letters Todd Klein
Editing Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original assoc. editor)
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #9 (September 1989)

3 page advertisement

Notes CoolBoarders PlayStation game (Sony); Nightwatch (Dimension Films); back cover: Carnage Heart PlayStation game (Sony)

1 page Sandman [The Dreaming] cover reprint (on interior page) "Next Month: The Doll's House"

Characters Rose Walker?
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters typeset
Notes cover reprint without logos or text
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #10 (November 1989)

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

Script Axel Alonso
Letters typeset
Notes promo for Unknown Soldier