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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published April 1989
Cover Price 1.50
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger; Art Young (assistant)

Cover Details - "Master of Dreams"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (painting)
Inks Dave McKean (painting)
Colors Dave McKean (painting)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Essential Vertigo: The Sandman (DC, 1996 series) #4; in Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers (DC, 1997 series) #nn; in Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers (DC, 1998 series) #nn; in Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers (Titan Books, 1997 series) #[nn]; in Dust Covers: The Collected Sandman Covers (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998 series) #nn

1 page Publishorial text article

Script Jenette Kahn
Letters Type

24 page Sandman story "A Hope in Hell [Master of Dreams Part 4]"

Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Pencils Sam Kieth; Mike Dringenberg
Inks Mike Dringenberg
Colors Robbie Busch
Letters Todd Klein
Reprinted in Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, The (DC, 1991 series) #nn; in Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, The (Titan Books, 1991 series) #nn; in Inferno (Epix; Atlantic Förlags AB, 1991 series) #4/1991; in Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, The (DC, 1995 series) #nn; in Essential Vertigo: The Sandman (DC, 1996 series) #4 (November 1996); in Colección Vertigo (NORMA Editorial, 1997 series) #93

1 page Skreemer promo (ad from the publisher)

Pencils Brett Ewins (signed)
Inks Brett Ewins (signed)
Letters Type

1 page Batman promo (ad from the publisher)

Genre superhero
Letters Type

1 page Sandman text article "The Origin of the Comic You Are Now Holding (What It Is And How It Came To Be)"

Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Letters Type

1 page Janus Directive promo (ad from the publisher)

Letters Type

1 page DC Annuals Blackhawk and Secret Origins promo (ad from the publisher)

Letters Type

1 page Sandman promo (ad from the publisher)

Genre fantasy
Pencils Sam Kieth ?
Inks Mike Dringenberg ?
Letters Type
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