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DREAMING SPECIAL #1
Cover Date: July 1998
Cover Price: $5.95
Cover Credits:
Art: Dave McKean (signed)
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"Chapter Two: In Which Consequences Are Found To Have Consequences"
"Chapter Three: In Which Justice And Irony Become Strangely Synonymous"
Credits:
| Story | Len Wein |
| Pencils | Brian Apthorp |
| Inks | Scott Hampton |
| Lettering | Todd Klein |
| Colors | Daniel Vozzo |
| Color separations | Daniel Vozzo |
| Assistant editing | Jennifer Lee |
| Editing | Alisa Kwitney |
Feature Character(s):
- Abel (in between Dreaming #26 and #27)
- Cain (in between Dreaming #26 and #27)
Supporting Character(s):
- Gregory (in between Dreaming #26 and #27)
- Goldie (in between Dreaming #26 and #27)
- Matthew the Raven (in between Dreaming #25 and #28)
- Mervyn Pumpkinhead (in between Dreaming #24 and #28)
- Eve (in between Dreaming #24 and #28)
- Lucien the Librarian (last in Dreaming #24; next in Books of Magic Vol. 2 #51)
- Corinthian II (in between Dreaming #21 and #35)
- Cluracan (last in Dreaming #16; next in Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2/8)
- Nuala (last in Dreaming #16; next in Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2/8)
- Mad Hettie (in between Dreaming #7 and #28)
- Hob Gadling (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #73; next in Sandman Presents: The Deadboy Detectives #3)
- Rose Walker (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #72)
- the Fashion Thing (last in Dreaming #23)
- Bigmouth (Judge Gallows' club, last in Unexpected #125)
- House of Mystery (in between Dreaming #26 and #27)
- Guardians of the Gate:
- Gryphon (in between Dreaming #23 and #37)
- Wyvern (in between Dreaming #23 and #37)
- Hippograff (in between Dreaming #23 and #37)
- Three Witches:
- Mildred (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #69)
- Mordred (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #69)
- Cynthia (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #69)
Villain(s):
- Judge Gallows (last in Unexpected #133; dies)
- a rogue jury of dreamers (including Hitler, Genghis Khan, Billy the Kid, and others)
- hooligans of the waking world
Guest Appearance(s):
- Tim Hunter (in between Books of Magic Vol. 2 #50 and #51)
- Dream II (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #74; behind the scenes; next in JLA #22)
Other Character(s):
- Mervyn's building crew (last in Dreaming #15)
- Randy Becker (first appearance)
- Gwyneth Gilliam (first appearance)
- Grace Gilliam (first appearance)
- Panduraha Singh (first appearance; dies?)
- Herriet Feinberg (first appearance)
- Tiffany (first appearance, dies)
- Rachel Mandlebaum (first appearance)
Synopsis: - Abel, fed up with being murdered time and again by his brother Cain, brings back the Dreaming’s insane judge, Quentin Gallows, from obscurity. The two of them take Cain to court with the matter. The jury finds Cain guilty as original sin, and Gallows sentences him to be banished from the Dreaming forever.
- However, Abel soon starts to miss the abuse he has grown accustomed to, and even the universe itself seems to miss the cathartic effect of the first murderer and the first victim playing their violent games in the Dreaming. Chaos erupts in both the Dreaming and the Waking World, and Abel must leave the dream realm to find Cain...