Adventure Comics #84.
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Adventure Comics #84.
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I love how the last panel on each page demands you keep reading. They’re like mini-cliffhangers. That drawing of Wes in his lab is fire.
I also like how they describe the gas as smelling like violets. What a great, perfect detail. It should absolutely smell like violets.
While Sandman was one of the original members of the Justice Society of America, as first seen in All Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940), his feature had previously appeared in issue #1 (Summer 1940).
To be continued . . .
3548042-20.jpgReally liked the issue but prefer Mystery Theatre
I've always thought that SMT was one of the very greatest works of comic book literature, (yes, I think it and other classic comic books rise to the level of literature), ever done. I have some others in that category, but this was and is a particular treat. And I'd go with that version.
These days, when it seems I'm ordering maybe a third of the new issues I once did, I've begun re-reading series I haven't seen in years, decades, even. And Sandman Mystery Theatre is one of them, one it happens I'm currently re-reading. I've finished up to "The Mist" and seem to've stopped buying it until The Scarlet Ghost (#49). It seems I may find myself searching for issues between 40 and 49. I do have the first three of "Sleep of Reason". Thank you all for your listing of titles, and pages from earlier Sandman comics-- was surprised to see how Wagner's Tarantula so closely followed the earlier tarantula story. And, of course, I'll have to hunt up my Starman issues (18-22?), where apparently Jack and Wesley again cross paths... So glad to find others who so enjoy this series.
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If people enjoyed Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre, Wagner had Wes and Dian Belmont appear in issues #11-15 of Madame Xanadu in 2009.
NOTE: The portion of the storyline with Dian and Wes takes place in 1940; there's also an additional storyline that is set in flashbacks during the late 15th century.
And issues #11-15 were then collected into Madame Xanadu (Vol. 2): Exodus Noir.
More from All Star Comics #1 (Summer 1940) . . .
To be concluded . . .
Final page of The Sandman feature that was in All Star Comics #1 (Summer 1940):
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Oh, yeah. The cover of a collected edition.
Loses something when you don't see everything that was originally there.
And that was from The Flash #275 (July 1979), back before CoIE when The Sandman was on Earth-2, but his Golden Age comic book stories had been published on Earth-1 (which was Barry's and Iris' Earth).
And that was Iris dressed as Batgirl.
Since DC has released The Black Canary: Bird of Prey,
which seems to be a paperback equivalent of the old THE BLACK CANARY ARCHIVES VOL. 1 from 2003
I wonder if there's any chance we may eventually get a tpb equivalent of GOLDEN AGE SANDMAN ARCHIVES VOL. 1
https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-nov...archives-vol-1
I guess we'd probably need a movie or TV version with Wes Dodds first for that to happen.
Sandman is "invited" to join the Justice Society of America, from DC Special #29 (August-September 1977).