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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published January 1993
Cover Price 1.75
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger; Lisa Aufenanger (assistant)
Notes letter page (2)

Cover Details - "brief lives 5"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (photo montage)
Inks Dave McKean (photo montage)
Colors Dave McKean (photo montage)
Notes letter page (2)
Reprinted 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 Superman promo (ad from the publisher)

Genre superhero
Letters Type

24 page Sandman story "FIVE: THE THINGS WE DO TO BE LOVED-HER HANDS DO NOT GO TO THE MOON-THE DRIVING INSTRUCTOR-TIFFANY WATCHES I-WHITE KNIGHTS AND/OR POND-SCUM-ARE DALMATIONS FLOWERS?-NANCY DISPLAYS HER ERUDITION-WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM-TIFFANY WATCHES II. [Brief Lives Part"

Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Pencils Jill Thompson
Inks Vince Locke
Colors Daniel Vozzo
Letters Todd Klein
Reprinted in Sandman: Brief Lives, The (DC, 1994 series) #nn [hardcover]; in Sandman: Brief Lives, The (Titan Books, 1994 series) #nn; in Sandman: Brief Lives, The (DC, 1994 series) #nn [softcover]

1 page Batman: Birth of the Demon promo (ad from the publisher)

Pencils Norm Breyfogle
Inks Norm Breyfogle
Colors Norm Breyfogle
Letters Type

1 page Showcase '93 promo (ad from the publisher)

Pencils Arthur Adams (signed)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Type

1 page Batman promo (ad from the publisher)

Genre superhero
Letters Type

1 page Vertigo promo (ad from the publisher)

Genre horror
Letters Type

1 page Gregory II promo (ad from the publisher)

Pencils Marc Hempel
Inks Marc Hempel
Letters Type

1 page John Constantine promo (ad from the publisher)

Letters Type
Notes subscription ad

1 page Scarlett promo (ad from the publisher)

Letters Type