The entirety of the Sandman series collected, albeit out of chronological order, in both soft and hardcover formats. *ongoing series are in bold Trade Paperbacks/Hardcovers Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of DREAM (One-Shot).Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams but Were Afraid to Ask (One-Shot).The Corinthian: Death in Venice (Mini-Series).The Sandman Presents: WitchCraft (Mini-Series).Sandman: Book of Dreams (Prose Anthology).Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel).House of Mystery Halloween Annual (Annual).God Save the Queen (Original Graphic Novel).The Girl Who Would Be Death (Mini-Series).Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (Mini-Series).Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook (Original Graphic Novel).Death: At Death's Door (Original Graphic Novel).Death: The High Cost of Living (Mini-Series).Death: The Time of Your Life (Mini-Series).
The Dead Boy Detectives (Original Graphic Novel). The series proved so popular that numerous spin-off titles were written, both by Gaiman and those that emerged after Gaiman's initial series ended. Gaiman ended the series at 75 issues, but the run also included The Sandman Special (1991). The series was originally a DC book, but was one of the original titles moved onto the new Vertigo label with issue #47. The collected editions have been reprinted numerous times and remain best sellers for DC/Vertigo. The series soon evolved beyond its DC Universe horror origins and became one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy comic series of all time, regularly outselling its superhero counterparts toward its end and introducing comics to whole new audiences outside of the comics mainstream. With this, Gaiman revived several dormant DC horror and mystery characters and populated his world of The Dreaming with them. Using ideas he had of a character that lived in dreams, Gaiman created the character of Morpheus, a literal take on the folklore concept of the Sandman and a personification of dreaming itself. The concept of The Sandman emerged from Neil Gaiman's idea to revive Jack Kirby's 1970's Sandman series after his Black Orchid mini series at DC Editor Karen Berger suggested he keep the Sandman name but create the rest of the series entirely from scratch. 
It also follows his family, known as the Endless. The award-winning Sandman follows the return of Dream, the personification of hopes and dreams, to his domain after being trapped and held prisoner for 70 years and his quest to regain the powers he once possessed.
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