The Nightmare Wizard

A creature of pure Bronze Age strangeness, The Nightmare Wizard materialized in the pages of DC's The Sandman #2 in 1975, conjured by writer Michael Fleisher and artist Ernie Chua. Haunting a corner of DC's dreamscape alongside such uncanny company as Glob, Brute, and Garrett Sanford, this enigmatic figure embodies the era's fondness for gothic, otherworldly menace. With appearances also collected in The Best of DC, the Nightmare Wizard earned a small but telling foothold in the Bronze Age canon — a rare, curious find for collectors who love digging into the weirder, more imaginative edges of DC's 1970s output.