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Issue: The Sandman: The Wake #[10]
Publication Date: February 1997
 
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Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 12/18/1996
Volume: none
Pages: 200
ISBN: 1563892871
UPC/EAN: 76194120827500111
Price: $41.95 CAD
$29.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 29 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Numbered volume 10 with the second 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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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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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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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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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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Hob Gadling; Guenevere; Gerry; Hinnegan; Cordelia; Death; Dream [Morpheus]; Destruction
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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Master Li
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Exiles

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Master Li; Dream [Morpheus]; Dream [Daniel]
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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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
Shakespeare writes The Tempest for The Sandman as he had agreed to do.
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Credits include "Special thanks to Bryan Talbot, John Ridgway & the Mysterious Mister Zed."
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Acknowledgements

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The Sandman Library and other works by Neil Gaiman.
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