Neil Gaiman's comics series

chronicles the story of Morpheus, a mythical personification of dreaming. The series employs a great variety of genres, narrative modes and literary traditions. Both commercially and critically, it is one of the most successful comics of all times and

is generally hailed as one of the first mainstream series to establish comics as an aesthetic medium.

was published in 75 individual issues, written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by various artists.

The beginning of The Sandman is set in 1916, as an English cabal of occultists tries to summon Death but captures her younger brother Dream, or Morpheus, instead. Morpheus remains imprisoned for over seventy years, until the late 1980s. After he breaks free, Morpheus finds himself

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