Sandman (comics)
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Sandman and The Sandman, in comics, may refer to a number of characters:
- Sandman (DC Comics)Sandman (DC Comics)Sandman is the name of seven fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. All are connected in one way or the other, though there are three largely dissimilar concepts, with two or three persons having served in each role various times...
, denoting the various characters that have taken the mantle of the Sandman, including:- The Sandman (Vertigo), a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and centers around the protagonist, Dream/Morpheus, the immortal anthropomorphic personification of dreams
- Sandman (Wesley Dodds)Sandman (Wesley Dodds)Sandman , is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name, he was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Bert Christman....
, a comic character from the 1930s who has made more recent appearances in:- Sandman Mystery TheatreSandman Mystery TheatreSandman Mystery Theatre is a comic book series published by Vertigo, the mature-readers imprint of DC Comics. It ran for 70 issues between 1993 and 1999 and retells the adventures of the Sandman, a vigilante whose main weapon is a gun that fires sleeping gas, originally created by DC in the Golden...
- Sandman Midnight TheatreSandman Midnight TheatreSandman Midnight Theatre is the title of a comic book in which two DC comics characters called the Sandman, Dream and Wesley Dodds, encounter each other....
, in which Dodds meets Dream
- Sandman Mystery Theatre
- Just Imagine... Sandman, Stan Lee and Walt Simonson’s version of Sandman
- Sandy HawkinsSandy HawkinsSanderson "Sandy" Hawkins, formerly known as Sandy, the Golden Boy, Sands, Sand, and currently as Sandman, is a fictional character, superhero in the DC Comics universe created by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris. He first appeared in Adventure Comics #69.-Golden Age:The Character of Sandy the Golden...
, the current DC Sandman
- Sandman (Marvel Comics)Sandman (Marvel Comics)Sandman is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. A shapeshifter endowed through an accident with the ability to turn himself into sand, he eventually reformed, and became an ally of Spider-Man...
, a supervillain who can transform his body into sand, and is an enemy of Spider-Man