ST302 The Wider DC Horror Line: From Cain and Abel to Vertigo
Sandman and the inheritance
How Gaiman took the cosmology of Annual #2 and #49 to #50 and built a different mythology on it.
Reading for this lesson
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Required The Sandman #1: "Sleep of the Just" Neil Gaiman (writer), Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg (art) the whole issue
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Required The Sandman #2: "Imperfect Hosts" Neil Gaiman (writer), Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg (art) the whole issue
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Recommended Swamp Thing Annual #2: "Down Amongst the Dead Men" Alan Moore (writer), Stephen Bissette and John Totleben (art) the whole annual
For comparison.
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Optional The Books of Magic #1 to #4 Neil Gaiman (writer), John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess and Paul Johnson (art) issue #1
Constantine as tour guide.