Cover: Dave McKean

Sandman #41

Sep 1992 · DC · 1.50 USD; 1.85 CAD; 1.00 GBP

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“Blossom for a Lady - Rain in the Doorway - Not Her Sister - Want/Not Want - The View from the Backs of Mirrors - Journal of the Plague Year - "The Number You Have Dialed..." [Brief Lives, Part 1]”

September 1992 marks the opening chapter of "Brief Lives," and this collage-style Dave McKean cover sets an appropriately enigmatic mood — fragments of text, a gloved hand, a dark butterfly, a Pre-Raphaelite face, and an open journal titled Journal of the Plague Year are assembled like clues in a dream. Tantalizing caption snippets visible on the cover — "Not her sister?", "Rain in the doorway," and "The number you have dialed…" — hint at the layered, interwoven stories Neil Gaiman crafts within, brought to life by Jill Thompson and Vince Locke. A richly atmospheric entry point into one of Sandman's most celebrated arcs.

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