Guide Note: The Sandman is a comic book series created and written by British author Neil Gaiman published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
Fast Facts:
- The Sandman is the only comic book to have won the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, an award typically given to prose fiction
- The book ran from 1988 to 1996 totaling 75 issues plus one annual
- Artist Dave McKean produced all 76 covers
- The main character of the The Sandman is Dream, lord of dreams
- Dream's family, called The Endless, consists of Destiny, Death, Despair, Destruction, Desire and Delirium, and are featured prominently throughout the series