The original Sandman is given a token mention in the first issue, and Dream often wears a helmet that resembles a gas mask - but other than that, the story is wholly original. But while most of Gaiman's contemporaries at least kept the general premise of the characters that they were working with, Gaiman essentially just took the name and ran with it. Hence, the series' name is taken from a detective series created by Gardner Fox in the 1930s, which followed the adventures of a gas-masked private detective who put criminals to sleep with anaesthetic gas.
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Like many experimental comic book series of its era (like Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Grant Morrison's Animal Man), The Sandman is ostensibly a reboot/ revival of a third-string character from DC's early days, whom Gaiman was given free license to play with as much as he wanted. Throughout the series, tragedy and suffering teach him humility and compassion for others, but it's hard to change for the better when you're billions of years old and very set in your ways. As old as the universe and more powerful than many gods, Dream is vain, proud, and stiff-necked. He rules over the dreaming world that mortals enter when they sleep, and he is also the patron of writers and storytellers (described as "The lord of all that is not, and shall never be."), since a story and a dream are in many ways the same thing. At the center of the series is Dream, also known as Morpheus, the Sandman, and dozens of other titles.
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