Sandman Midnight Theatre is the title of a comic book

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 in which two DC

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 comics characters called the Sandman

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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...

, Dream

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Dream is the fictional protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman. One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greater than gods, Dream is both lord and personification of all dreams and stories, all that is not in reality...

 and Wesley Dodds

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, encounter each other.

It was a one-shot, co-written by Sandman Mystery Theatre

Sandman Mystery Theatre

Sandman 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...

 author Matt Wagner

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 (co-plot) and Sandman

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 author Neil Gaiman

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Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...

 (co-plot/script), and featured painted artwork by Teddy Kristiansen

Teddy Kristiansen

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 and was lettered by Todd Klein

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It received the Comics Buyer's Guide

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 Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Novel/Album for 1996.

It was published with a cover date of September 1995

1995 in comics

-January:*After Xavier: The Age of Apocalypse is launched. All X-titles change to different names for the next four months.* Thor marks his 400th appearance in Marvel Comics with issue #482....

. The following issue of The Sandmans regular series was #72, in which Dodds appeared out of costume as an epilogue to the events in this book. (Chronologically, this issue appeared much later, as the story occurred during Dream's imprisonment.) In terms of Sandman Mystery Theatre, it occurs between issues #36 and #37, between the storylines "The Python" and "The Mist".