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Issue: Sandman Mystery Theatre #1
Publication Date: April 1993
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Issues: #1 of 70 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Vertigo; DCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 02/11/1993
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
£1.00 GBP
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Tarantula Act I

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
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In Content Item: FlagVertigo: First Offenses #[nn] published October 2005
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]cover with logo removed
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Pages: 1
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The Tarantula Act One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Lawrence Belmont; Catherine van der Meer; Judge Thomas Schaffer; Albert Goldman; Miriam Goldman; Celia Goldman; Roger Goldman; Police Lieutenant Ross O'Donald; Lenny Green; Moses Berman; Officer Pascal; Solly (dishwasher); Bert Lahr (cameo); The Tarantula; Tallulah Bankhead (cameo); Joe DiMaggio (cameo)
Synopsis: "The Tarantula" has been kidnapping and killing his victims in 1938 New York. Dian Belmont, socialite daughter of D.A. Lawrence Belmont, meets the odd Wesley Dodd at one of retired Judge Shaffer's parties, and is attracted to his non-conventional manner. Dodd, using sleeping gas and a goggled gas mask, has been snooping on gangster Albert Goldman and his associates. Brought to the precinct as her father is called in to investigate the possible murder of Dian's friend Catherine, Dian walks into a darkened lady's room and is shocked when a figure in a gas mask rises and approaches her.
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In Issue: FlagSandman Mystery Theatre #1 [1st Printing] published May 1995
In Content Item: FlagVertigo: First Offenses #[nn] published October 2005
as The Tarantula Act One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 26
Disclose Notes: Based loosely on the story in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #40.
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[untitled]

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First Line: If she’s a savior, why not redeem us?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Mercy (DC, 1993 series) # [nn] ([April] 1993).
Between pages 9-10 of story.
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Spin Across America Tour

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A list of comics creators and venues for an extensive Vertigo promotional tour.
Between pages 21-22 of story.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Some things frighten even the Batman.
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Batman: Night Cries (DC, 1993 series) # [nn] ([April] 1993) trade paperback.
Between pages 23-24 of story.
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First Line: Now you don’t have to leave home to cross the threshold into Vertigo.
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Disclose Notes: DC Vertigo subscription ad.
On page preceding “On the Ledge”.
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On the Ledge With Karen Berger [April 1993]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
First Line: Although Vertigo was born from the group of titles referred to as "The Berger Books," that certainly doesn't mean I do everything.
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Disclose Notes: Karen Berger introduces the other Vertigo editors and assistant editors. Checklist of Vertigo titles shipping in February 1993 and new Vertigo titles debuting in March 1993.
On last interior page of book.

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