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A challenge between Sandman and Lucifer Morningstar
In the source comic we get a little more commentary on the 'oldest game'.
The aim isn't just to say words, it's to embody them with your whole being. Dream doesn't just say "A hunter, horse ...
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Has Neil Gaiman's Sandman ever appeared in a Justice League comic?
The Daniel-incarnation of the Sandman makes a guest apperance in JLA #22-23.
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Is Sandman ever mentioned in the Lucifer TV series?
No
The TV series is VERY losely based on the comic series - in fact only the general idea (Lucifer quitting hell) names and certain traits of main characters (Mazikeen has half of her face burned... ...
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What does "the princess and the queen" refer to here?
"Queen" is sometimes used as a shortened version of "drag queen," i.e. man who performs dressed as a woman (usually- there's a lot of nuance there that is beyond the scope of this question). As Wanda ...
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Who drew this depiction of Morpheus (from "The Sandman")?
The artist is the German artist Lukas Frese.
Neil Gaiman himself posted the same question so I stumbled over this feed. Quite the lesson on how quickly images can get robbed and spread over the ...
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Sandman novel that contains the Wizards Duel
None. The only such duel in the comics was between Dream and Choronzon (a demon of Hell) in A Hope in Hell. This was issue #4 of the Sandman comic series, and part of the Preludes and Nocturnes story ...
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Did the other Endless know that Dream was held prisoner?
Neil Gaiman addressed this issue in The Sandman Companion.
Briefly: Fans have noted Death would have been there for Roderick Burgess
when he died, so she positively knew where Dream was. But the ...
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Did "24 Hours" happen in any other comic besides Sandman?
Off top of my head I can think of one mention of those events.
Remember Judy, who broke up with her girlfriend, Donna?
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She appears in Donna's (who calls herself ...
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Has anyone ever tried to physically attack any of the Endless?
The Corinthian tries to stab Morpheus near the end of issue 14 of The Sandman ("Collectors", from the "A Game of You" storyline). This does nothing to Morpheus and ends badly for the Corinthian.
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How does Unity Kinkaid remember the father?
At least in the show, the situation was not quite as the question describes it. Unity actually met Desire in the Dreaming (or possibly some spinoff of it like the one Gault made), and they started a ...
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Was the villain of Justice League Dark based on a Sandman villain?
He was a JLA villain long before Sandman met him.
Doctor Destiny is a classic Justice League villain who used various inventions of his own design to battle the JLA. One of them, an invention called ...
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What is Will Shakespeare's 'cost' that Morpheus thinks is "greater than Will can fathom"?
Dream spells it out explicitly for Titania. The cost is that having achieved his heart's desire, he's now left without any further ambition than to continue producing plays.
"They only see the ...
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What are the powers and purpose of Morpheus’ tools, and why did he create them?
The Sandman Companion gives us some idea of the powers of several of the items.
The Pouch
The Sandman pursues the pouch, which holds the sands of dream.
The Ruby
This is a tool that normally ...
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Where and when does Dream find the saeculum?
The Saeculum was found by the next aspect of Dream, who was previously known as Daniel Hall.
This happens some time after the events of the last volume of The Sandman. In Overture, the time period is ...
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Who drew this depiction of Morpheus (from "The Sandman")?
Edit: Was a blind alley
This appears to be a vector graphics work by deviantart member A-Scream: http://a-scream.deviantart.com/art/Sandman-Vector-463110397
"One of my first works in Adobe ...
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Who is Death talking to at the end of "Death: The High Cost of Living"?
It's Death herself.
Here's the full panel:
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As a part of her duties, once a century Death has to take a mortal form and live a day among living things. I interpreted Didi ...
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Are these Delirium stories from The Sandman #21 discussed elsewhere in comics?
The answer seems to be negative.
In my opinion, those lines are there to paint us a picture of Delirium - a chaotic, unpredictable, and truly (wait for it) mad person[ification].
What she does is ...
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Did the other Endless know that Dream was held prisoner?
Death knew, at least.
When they meet up in The Sound of Her Wings, Dream brings up that the ritual was intended for her, and she replies "I know." Nothing else is really said about it.
We're not ...
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How to buy the right collection if I'd like to have the whole Sandman series?
Telling you what to buy would be off-topic, but I can tell you what stories make up the original run of The Sandman:
Vol 1. Preludes and Nocturnes
Vol 2. The Doll's House
Vol 3. Dream Country
Vol 4. ...
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Why does Orpheus know how to find Destruction?
As Todd Wilcox notes, it is an oracle's job to know things others don't know. In ancient Greece (as the myths tell) it was common to consult an oracle on occasions when it was crucial to make the ...
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Who else is Hob Gadling referring to?
This appears to be a (DC) reference to Jason Blood.
Jason Blood is a world leading expert on the occult and demonology. He has walked the Earth since the 6th Century, after the wizard Merlin bound ...
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What happened in Hell to get Lucifer's rule challenged?
The Dark Lucifer refers to is the darkness God banished when he said:
Let there be light
The Great Darkness
The Great Darkness returned during Crisis on Infinite Earths. The events surrounding ...
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Is Mister Dark part of/Homage to The Endless?
Yes, it seems that Mr Dark is a homage to Morpheus
From the Fables Wiki:
While Dark Man's name does not come from any specific story, it is clear that his presence carries out in various panels of ...
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What happened to Despair?
Gaiman discussed this in the Sandman Companion. In short, her death is something that he felt would likely remain shrouded in mystery.
Hy: Lastly, do you have anything to say about the first ...
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Why did Gaiman stop using superheroes in Sandman?
To offer another look on the issue - Neil Gaiman explained in an interview with Chip Kidd that there was also the concern for continuity with other DC comics. It turns out that in the issue where Dr. ...
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Who gave Nuala her pendant?
It's Thessaly. As Radhil says in the comments, we know from various clues that Thessaly is the girlfriend they're talking about. In A Game of You, Morpheus and Thessaly meet, and Thessaly shows some ...
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Did "24 Hours" happen in any other comic besides Sandman?
Those events did not occur in any other comics.
As Gallifreyan pointed out in his answer, they are referenced again later in another Sandman story arc, but that was par for the course in that series; ...
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Why was this happening at the end of Sandman volume 4?
You are most certainly remembering something wrong.
Remiel flies up, yes, but it is not Duma, nor any other angel that he encounters. He goes to see just a random doomed soul.
You are probably ...
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What does the boy mean by "the other egg of the Phoenix"? Which one is it?
When the text (and the boy) states "the other egg of the phoenix", it's referring to the black egg.
Note that when it is described, the panel shows the two eggs, but only says the "Other Egg" is in ...
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What are the powers and purpose of Morpheus’ tools, and why did he create them?
The helm is his sigil
Whenever one of the Endless is trying to connect to another member of his family, they use the copy of the recipient's sigil. You can see this in the series, when Desire is ...
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