The Sandman Legacy

William Baker, better known as Flint Marko, was a small-time criminal who escaped from prison and stumbled onto a military atomic testing site on a beach in South Carolina, where a freak nuclear test bombardment fused his body with the surrounding sand at a molecular level. The accident granted him the ability to transform himself into living sand, and he soon clashed with Spider-Man as one of the wall-crawler's earliest and most persistent foes.

Wealthy socialite and brilliant chemist Wesley Dodds donned a gas mask and business suit to become the Sandman, using a homemade sleeping-gas gun and wirepoon to put criminals to sleep. Later lore revealed his compulsive crime-fighting was driven by cryptic prophetic nightmares he couldn't ignore.