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| Sandman Mystery Theatre | |
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 Cover to Sandman Mystery Theatre #29 (August 1995) by Gavin Wilson. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | April 1993 – February 1999 |
| No. of issues | 70 Annual #1 |
| Main character(s) | Wesley Dodds Dian Belmont |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Matt Wagner Steven T. Seagle |
| Artist(s) | List |
| Penciller(s) | Michael Lark |
| Inker(s) | Richard Case |
| Letterer(s) | John Costanza Gaspar Saladino Clem Robins |
| Colorist(s) | David Hornung |
| Editor(s) | Karen Berger List
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Sandman Mystery Theatre was an ongoing comic book series published by Vertigo Comics, the mature-readers imprint of DC Comics. It ran for 70 issues, one annual, and a cross-over special between 1993 and 1999 and retells the adventures of the Sandman, a vigilante whose main weapon is a gun that fires sleeping gas, originally created by DC in the Golden Age of Comic Books. In a similar vein to Batman, the Sandman possesses little to no superhuman powers, though he has minor precognitive abilities through his prophetic dreams, and relies on his detective skills and inventions.
In this film noir-like series by writers Matt Wagner and Steven T. Seagle, Wesley Dodds (the Sandman) and his girlfriend Dian Belmont (daughter of the District Attorney) encountered several, often grotesque, foes in multi-issue storylines. The team of Dodds and Belmont were a nod to Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man novel and movies.