
Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Sandman · 1989
Sandman #1
Sandman · 1989
The first issue of Neil Gaiman's horror/fantasy epic! An occultist accidentally traps Morpheus, the embodiment of Dreams, and holds him for 70 years. Finally free, Morpheus seeks his lost objects of power and rediscovers his place in the universe.
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Sandman #1 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Art Young, Dave McKean, and Karen Berger, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Sandman #1 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Sandman. Useful collector signals include release year 1989, issue #1, and artist context from Todd Klein, Sam Kieth, and Robbie Busch. Sandman has 1 catalogued release on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Sandman #1 is a comics entry for issue #1 in Sandman from 1989. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Alex Burgess, Dream of the Endless (Morpheus), Ethel Cripps, John Hathaway, Roderick Burgess, and Ruthven Sykes.
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- Release span
- 1989
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