Cover: Dave McKean

Sandman #44

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

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“Four: The Other Side of the Sky - A Bear and His Shadow - Departed Secrets - "Twinkle's a Nice Word. So's Viridian." - Three Keys - A Treatise on Optics - The Perils of Smoking in Bed? [Brief Lives, Part 4]”

Part four of the celebrated "Brief Lives" arc arrives in this December 1992 installment of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, written by Gaiman with interior art by Jill Thompson and Vince Locke. Dave McKean's cover is a striking, layered composition in deep reds and purples, dominated by a bound, skeletal-looking figure rendered in raw, painterly textures — haunting and visceral in equal measure. It's the kind of image that reminds you why Sandman was redefining what mainstream comics could look and feel like in 1992.

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