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Issue: The Dreaming #8
Publication Date: January 1997
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Issues: #8 of 60 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Vertigo; DCView Brand Images
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):  
Disclose 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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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:  
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His Brother's Keeper

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Seth (?)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Interior Cover

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Seth
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: See issue notes for more information on this sequence.
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His Brother's Keeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
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: FlagThe Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night #[nn] published January 1998
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: True origin of Cain who originally killed Abel for Abel's wife, Aclima.
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Three "Lost Pages" from The Wake

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Sandman
Character(s): Sandman [Dream]; Orpheus
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagThe Sandman: The Wake #[10] published February 1997
In Issue: FlagThe Sandman: The Wake #[10] [unnamed variant] published July 1997
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose 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.

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