Cover: Dave McKean

Sandman #47

Mar 1993 · DC · 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD; 1.00 GBP

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“Seven: Cooking Considered as One of the Fine Arts - "My Envelope Isn't Any Good Anymore" - Where All Mazes Meet - The Other Side of the Coin - Life as a Glass of Bitter Wine - Cherries Are Counted, and a Bargain Is Made - An Unlikely Growth.”

A beautifully unsettling collage by Dave McKean greets readers of this 1993 DC Vertigo issue, presenting Dream's gaunt, shadowed face cradling a crescent moon against a backdrop of antique maps, an anatomical heart, and fragments of starry sky. The layered imagery — snippets of text, a disembodied eye, a radiant sun — mirrors the issue's seven-part story title, hinting at a tale woven from many threads and perspectives. With Neil Gaiman writing and Jill Thompson illustrating interiors inked by Vince Locke and Dick Giordano, this is Sandman at its most richly atmospheric.

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