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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published January 1997
Cover Price 1.95
Pages 36
Editing Bob Kahan (Essential Vertigo editor)

Cover Details - "Preludes & Nocturnes"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters Dave McKean (logo design)
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #6 (June 1989) [with new text and border added]

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Notes Neverhood PC game (DreamWorks); Contra PlayStation game (Konami); Epidemic, Twisted Metal 2, & 2 Xtreme PlayStation games (Sony); Kula Shaker & Duncan Sheik CDs (Sam Goody); Independence Day (Fox Video); back cover: Resident Evil PlayStation game (Capcom)

24 page Sandman [The Dreaming] story "24 Hours Diner"

Characters Bette Munroe; Judy; Mark; Garry Fletcher; Kate Fletcher; Marsh; John Dee [Doctor Destiny]; The Amazing Herschel; Sandman [Morpheus]
Synopsis Doctor Destiny entertains himself by torturing people in a diner.
Genre fantasy
Script Neil Gaiman
Pencils Mike Dringenberg
Inks Malcolm Jones III
Colors Robbie Busch
Letters Todd Klein
Editing Karen Berger (original editor); Art Young (original asst. editor)
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #6 (June 1989)

1 page Sandman [The Dreaming] cover reprint (on interior page) "Next Month: Sound and Fury"

Characters John Dee [Doctor Destiny]; Sandman [Morpheus]
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters typeset
Notes cover reprint without logos or text
Reprinted from Sandman, The (DC, 1989 series) #7 (July 1989)