Issue Details

Issue	#12
Published	June 1997
Cover Price	1.95
Pages	36
Editing	Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)
Notes	publication date taken from indicia; cover date for this issue is July 1997

Cover Details - "the Doll's House-part three"

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)
Notes	publication date taken from indicia; cover date for this issue is July 1997
Reprinted	from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #12 (January 1990) [with new text and border added]

6 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes

B&W house ad for Pride & Joy; colour 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

24 page Sandman [The Dreaming] story "Playing House"

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.
Genre	fantasy
Script	Neil Gaiman
Pencils	Chris Bachalo
Inks	Malcolm Jones III
Colors	Robbie Busch
Letters	John Costanza
Editing	Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original assoc. editor)
Notes	date of original publication taken from GCD; indicia of this issue gives the publication date of Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) issue 12 as February 1990
Reprinted	from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #12 (January 1990)

3 page advertisement

Notes

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

1 page Sandman [The Dreaming] cover reprint (on interior page) Next Month: "Men of Good Fortune"

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) #13 (February 1990)

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

Script	Ted McKeever
Letters	typeset
Notes	promo for Junk Culture