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Issue: The Dreaming #8

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Publication Date: January 1997

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Issues: #8 of 60 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers

Publisher: Flag

Brand: Vertigo; DC

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics

On Sale Date: 11/20/1996

Volume: none

Pages: 40

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 76194120572400811

Price: $3.50 CAD
$2.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Karen Berger

Notes: This comic has a second "cover" (a glossy Dave McKean art page) set inside where the first interior story page would normally be. So it's cover, ad, "cover", story. Cover date is incorrectly listed as November 1996.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

2 Content Items
- His Brother's Keeper [Story on Interior Page(s)]0
- Three "Lost Pages" from The Wake [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted 3 times as/in other Issues.

Reprinted From0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets0

Content Items (4 total)

His Brother's Keeper

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Inker(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Colorist(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): The Dreaming

Character(s): Seth (?)

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Interior Cover

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Inker(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Colorist(s): Dave McKean (painter & photographer)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): The Dreaming

Character(s): Seth

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: See issue notes for more information on this sequence.

His Brother's Keeper

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Alisa Kwitney

Penciller(s): Michael Zulli

Inker(s): Michael Zulli

Colorist(s): Daniel Vozzo

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): The Dreaming

Character(s): Seth (Cain & Abel's younger brother); Cain; Abel; Lucien; Eve; Matthew the raven; Jumella (Cain's wife); Gregory; Zoe Levine; Dana Cleveland; Byron Manning

Synopsis: Seth returns and lets Cain's mad wife Jumella out of the attic where Cain had kept her.

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night #[nn] published January 1998

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 24

Notes: True origin of Cain who originally killed Abel for Abel's wife, Aclima.

Three "Lost Pages" from The Wake

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Neil Gaiman

Penciller(s): Michael Zulli

Inker(s): Michael Zulli

Colorist(s): Daniel Vozzo? (uncredited but did The Wake's coloring)

Letterer(s): Todd Klein ? (uncredited but did The Wake's lettering)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Sandman

Character(s): Sandman [Dream]; Orpheus

Reprinting

In Issue:

The Sandman: The Wake #[10] published February 1996

In Issue:

The Sandman: The Wake #[10] [unnamed variant] published July 1997

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Follows p. 16 in The Sandman (DC, 1989 series) #72. The script wasn't done in time for inclusion in the original comic, so the pencils weren't drawn until the hardcover reprint was prepared.