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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