Sandman Midnight Theatre is a one-shot comic book in which two DC comics characters called the Sandman — Dream and Wesley Dodds — encounter each other. Sandman Midnight Theatre was co-written by Sandman Mystery Theatre author Matt Wagner (co-plot) and The Sandman author Neil Gaiman (co-plot/script), and featured painted artwork by Teddy Kristiansen and lettering by Todd Klein . In 1996, it received the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Original Graphic Novel/Album of 1995.
2-435: Sandman Midnight Theatre was published with a cover date of September 1995 . The following issue of The Sandman' s regular series was #72, in which Dodds appeared out of costume as an epilogue to the events in this book. Chronologically, The Sandman #72 happened long after Sandman Midnight Theatre , which occurred during Dream's imprisonment. In terms of Sandman Mystery Theatre , Sandman Midnight Theatre occurs between
4-450: The storylines "The Python" and "The Mist" (between issues #36 and #37). Following the events of "The Python," Dian Belmont left New York City for London. Dodds uses a murder case as an excuse to follow her, and he finds her working at a church's soup kitchen. While Belmont deliberately avoids Dodds , both end up, for different reasons, at a party held by Roderick Burgess , the man who imprisoned Dream in his cellar. The graphic novel
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