| Issue | #8 |
| Published | January 1997 |
| Cover Price | 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD |
| Pages | 40 |
| Editing | Karen Berger |
| 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. |
| Characters | Seth (?) |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Pencils | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| Inks | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| Colors | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| 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. |
| Characters | Seth |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Pencils | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| Inks | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| Colors | Dave McKean (painter & photographer) |
| Notes | See notes on cover sequence for more information on this sequence. |
| 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. |
| Genre | fantasy |
| Script | Alisa Kwitney |
| Pencils | Michael Zulli |
| Inks | Michael Zulli |
| Colors | Daniel Vozzo |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Notes | True origin of Cain who originally killed Abel for Abel's wife, Aclima. |
| Reprinted | in Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night, The (DC, 1998 series) #nn |
| Characters | Sandman (Dream); Orpheus |
| Genre | fantasy |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| Reprinted | in Sandman: The Wake, The (DC, 1996 series) #nn; in Sandman: The Wake, The (DC, 1997 series) #nn |