Essential Vertigo Sandman (1996) comic books 1998
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Issue #18
Published Jan 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #18. Dream Country: Part 2 of 4: A Dream of a Thousand Cats - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. The series of self-contained tales continues in this story of feline revelation, the potency of dreams, and graveyard moonlight. After seeking an audience with the Dream Lord to discover a secret truth, a sole cat stalks the earth on a quest to alter reality and forever change felinekind's station in life. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #19
Published Feb 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #19. Dream Country: Part 3 of 4: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Charles Vess. Cover by Dave McKean. Mediocre playwright Will Shekespear has struck a bargain with the Lord of Dreams to obtain his heart's desire: Achieving immortality through his stories. But as Shekespear's men perform his latest comedy in front of an otherworldly audience invited by Morpheus, the now-gifted playwright discovers that immortality has a steep price. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #20
Published Mar 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #20. Dream Country: Part 4 of 4: Facade - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Colleen Doran & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. Guest-starring Death. Element Girl has the power to transmute herself into any substance, but cannot return to the flesh-and-blood existence of her past. Desperate to end her freakish existence, she takes the advice of a pale, ankh-wearing stranger who drops by her apartment. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #21
Published Apr 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #21. Season of Mists: a prologue - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Mike Dringenberg & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. Destiny of the Endless calls a family reunion, giving Desire the chance to needle Dream about his treatment of Nada, the ex-lover he condemned to ten thousand years of torture in Hell. Plus: Promo for Witchcraft: La Terreur. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #22
Published May 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #22. Season of Mists Chapter = 1 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. After the previous issue's prologue, a brooding Morpheus prepares to return to Hell to free his condemned ex-love, Nada. Saying his farewells, he sends Cain as an emissary to alert Lucifer Morningstar to his pending arrival. Meanwhile, Lucifer eagerly awaits Dream's return, planning to make good on his oath to bring about the Dream King's destruction. (Note: This issue features the first appearance of Daniel, the future Sandman.) Plus: Promo for Nevada by Steve Gerber. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #23
Published Jun 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #23. Season of Mists Chapter = 2 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. Morpheus arrives in Hell prepared to battle Lucifer Morningstar, who has sworn to bring about the Dream King's destruction. Instead, he finds Hell's damned inhabitants -- including his doomed ex-love, Nada -- have been set free by Lucifer, who has decided to quit his job. Plus: Promo for Gangland. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #24
Published Jul 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #24. Season of Mists Chapter = 3 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & P. Craig Russell. Cover by Dave McKean. Lucifer Morningstar has quit his job as ruler of the damned. Hell has been cleaned out, locked up...and Morpheus has been given the key. Envoys from alternate dimensions and psychic realms converge on the Dreaming, unwanted guests all, leaving an unhappy Dream King to be a most reluctant host. Plus: Obituary for Archie Goodwin by Karen Berger. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #25
Published Aug 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #25. Season of Mists Chapter = 4 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Matt Wagner & Malcolm Jones III. Cover by Dave McKean. A self-contained interlude introduces Charles Rowland, a British schoolboy who witnesses the earthly consequences of Lucifer's abdication of responsibilities. As the dead begin returning, Charles suddenly finds himself to be the only living student in a school filled with the souls of damned boys anxious to see him join their ranks. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.95.
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Issue #26
Published Sep 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #26. Season of Mists Chapter = 5 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & George Pratt. Cover by Dave McKean. Demons, gods, fairies and other psychic envoys feast at the Dreaming, all with their eyes on the key to Hell, and each ready to make Morpheus an offer he can't refuse. Caught among threats, blackmail, temptations and duty, the Dream King must choose Lucifer's successor, even as it becomes clear that doing so may further condemn Morpheus' doomed ex-love, Nada. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.25.
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Issue #27
Published Oct 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #27. Season of Mists Chapter = 6 - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Kelley Jones & Dick Giordano. Cover by Dave McKean. The burning question of who will rule Hell is finally settled, but the shocking outcome invokes the wrath of one demonic sore loser, Azazel. Renouncing the Dream King's hospitality, Azazel challenges Morpheus to find Nada before he devours her soul, bite by torturous bite. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.25.
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Issue #28
Published Nov 1998 by DC/Vertigo.$2.50
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #28. Season of Mists Epilogue (Part 7) - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Mike Dringenberg & George Pratt. Cover by Dave McKean. As Hell's new landlords restore order to the realm, the notoriously proud Dream King faces a challenge of another sort: Apologizing to his ex-love Nada for condemning her to eternal suffering. Elsewhere in the Dreaming, rules of hospitality are invoked as certain guests prove that appearances can be truly deceptive. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.25.
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Issue #29
Published Dec 1998 by DC/Vertigo.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #29. Distant Mirrors: Part 1 of 3: Thermidor - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Stan Woch & Dick Giordano. Cover by Dave McKean. During the French Reign of Terror, Morpheus enlists Lady Johanna Constantine as his mortal agent in an urgent family matter. Her deadly mission: To recover the still-living head of his son, Orpheus (decapitated long ago in ancient Greece), before the leaders of the 'Age of Reason' destroy it as an object of superstition unfit for enlightened France. 32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.25.
