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Issue: The Sandman [Sandman Library Edition] #10
Publication Date: December 1997
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Issues: #10 of 10 Issues (16 Printings)
Title: The Wake
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Vertigo; DC ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/06/1999
Volume: 10
Pages: 200
ISBN: 1563892871
UPC/EAN: 76194120827500112
Price: $46.00 CAD
$29.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 31 (6 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Second hardcover printing; first printing as part of The Sandman Library.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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FlagDream States: The Collected Dreaming Covers #[nn] published January 2014 2003 cover
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The Sandman: The Wake

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Dedication

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Intro

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The Wake

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The Wake

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Chapter One: Which Occurs in the Wake of What Has Gone Before

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Character(s): Destiny; Despair; Death; Desire; Delirium; Barnabas; Sithcundman of Litharge; Eblis O'Shaughnessy; Cain; the Corinthian; Dream [Daniel]; Abel; Eve; Matthew the Raven; Nuala; Rose Walker; Richard Madoc; Merv Pumpkinhead; Lyta Hall; Alex Burgess; Hob Gadling; Fiddler's Green; Titania; Duma; Bast; Chiron
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Chapter Two: In Which a Wake Is Held

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Character(s): Eblis O'Shaughnessy; Dream [Daniel]; the Fashion Thing; Lucien; Cain; Abel; Goldie; Calliope; Titania; Thessaly; Matthew the Raven; Merv Pumpkinhead; Mad Hettie; Nuala; Cluracan; Lyta Hall; Rose Walker; Jed Walker; Eve; Raja Bharthari; Superman; Batman; Martian Manhunter; John Constantine; Doctor Occult; Phantom Stranger; Chiron; Hob Gadling; Delirium; Barnabas; Death; Desire; Despair; Destiny
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Chapter Three: In Which We Wake

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Character(s): Duma; Hob Gadling; Bast; Lucien; Merv Pumpkinhead; Rose Walker; Jed Walker; Lyta Hall; Thessaly; Cluracan; Nuala; Mad Hettie; Delirium; Despair; Desire; Death; Destiny; Eblis O'Shaughnessy; Dream [Daniel]; Destruction; Darkseid; Joshua Abraham Norton; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Matthew the Raven; Odin; Barnabas; Mazikeen; Lucifer; Shivering Jemmy; Pharamond; Anubis; Nada; Orpheus; Calliope; Richard Madoc; the Corinthian; Doctor Destiny [John Dee]; Alex Burgess; Paul McGuire
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Three pages completed after the original issue was published, which were presented for the first time in The Dreaming (DC, 1996 series) #8, are incorporated into the story here, replacing the original page 17.
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The Wake: An Epilogue - Sunday Mourning

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Character(s): Hob Gadling; Guenevere; Gerry; Hinnegan; Cordelia; Death; Dream [Morpheus]; Destruction
Synopsis: Robert Gadling, given immortality by Morpheus, is brought to a Renaissance Fair by his girlfriend. Depressed by his memories of the time, he encounters Death but decides to keep living.
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Exiles

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Character(s): Master Li; Dream [Morpheus]; Dream [Daniel]
Synopsis: Master Li is exiled from the Chinese imperial court and wanders the desert where he meets the Sandman who offers him a job as counseler but Li turns him down.
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The Tempest

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Character(s): William Shakespeare; Judith Shakespeare; Anne Hathaway; Mistress Quiney; Tom Quiney; Miranda; Prospero; Ben Johnson; Caliban; Ariel; Susanna Shakespeare; Dream [Morpheus]; Trinculo; Alonso; Ferdinand; Christopher Marlowe
Synopsis: Shakespeare writes The Tempest for The Sandman as he had agreed to do.
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Disclose Notes: Credits include "Special thanks to Bryan Talbot, John Ridgway & the Mysterious Mister Zed."
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Acknowledgements

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Biographies

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First Line: The Sandman is the most acclaimed and award-winning comics series of the 1990s for good reason...
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