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SANDMAN: OVERTURE #3
Cover Date: Sepember 2014
Cover Price: $3.99
Publication Date: 2014-07-30
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Cover Credits:
Art: J.H. Williams III
Colors: J.H. Williams III
Credits:
Story | Neil Gaiman |
Art | J.H. Williams III |
Lettering | Todd Klein |
Colors | Dave Stewart |
Assistant editing | Sara Miller |
Editing | Shelly Bond |
Feature Character(s):
- Dream (also in flashbacks)
- Dream (of Cats)
Supporting Character(s):
- Hecateae:
- Delight (in flashback only; transforming into Delirium)
- Desire (in flashback only; brings Alianora to free Dream)
- Alianora (in flashbacks only; earliest chronological appearance; a "creature of light"; becomes Dream's lover)
Villain(s):
- Master Brundage and his partner (first appearance for both; two cannibalistic (?) bandits)
- Two demons (in flashback only; their bones create the Gates of Horn and Dream's helm)
Other Character(s):
- Participants in the Final War: (first appearance for all)
- Monks of Klaa
- Jury Resplendent (a city-sized cancer)
- Warriors of Tharn
- Trollix
- Observers of the Final War:
- An unnamed race of metallic beetles (first appearance)
- Space Canine Patrol Corps (no individual members shown; earliest chronological appearance)
- Green Lantern Corps:
- Mogo (left behind as an observer)
- Chiron (as a representative of the Free Houses)
- Hope (Hope Beautiful Lost Nebula; child of Troubling World; saved by Dreams and accompanies them)
Location(s):
- City of the Stars (last in the third story of Sandman: Endless Nights; also known as the Parliament of Stars)
- Dreaming (in flashback only)
Story Reprinted in:
- The Sandman: Overture Special Edition #1 (January 2014)
- The Sandman: Overture - The Deluxe Edition (2016)
- Sandman Overture (2017)
- The Sandman: Overture 30th Anniversary Edition (2019)
Solicitation:
- The armies of the night are gathering. The universe is beginning its final dance. Morpheus, far from home, walks the path of madness, accompanied only by himself.