Re: Best Sandman Volume? (Was: Allan Moore Rocks)

In article <75f0j1p9ellbm3mha3veduoaumbq3noa83@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Lawrence Watt-Evans  <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:38:13 +0000 (UTC), mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael
>Alan Chary) wrote:
>
>>In article <WqWXe.5277$6e1.1981@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>R Crouse <robert.crouse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what that means, as Alan Moore's Swamp Thing was the
>>>> ground breaking work that inspired Gaiman.  Sandman took it to the
next
>>>> level, but "he was the first to do what he did" doesn't describe
>>>> Sandman at all.
>>>>
>>>> Many elements of Sandman were inspired by Swamp Thing, and the
>>>> depiction of hell and Cain and Abel in a dream world environment are
>>>> taken straight from Alan Moore.
>>
>>Well, not exactly, Cain and Abel were taken from the 1970's DC horror 
>>titles House of Secrets and House of Mystery. Eternity was also a 
>>preexisting DC character.
>
>Eternity?  Do you mean Destiny?  Eternity's a Marvel character, first
>appeared in Dr. Strange's adventures in STRANGE TALES back in the
>'60s.

Sorry, my bad.

>
>Cain, Abel, Destiny, and Lucien the librarian had all hosted DC horror
>comics -- if you can call Code-approved titles "horror," which the
>Code said you couldn't.

I don't work for the code :) (Zombie! Zombie, zombie, zombie, zombie!!!!!)

Actually, I wasn't sure Destiny had hosted a horror book, because, well, I

only read them occasionally. Plop! was my favorite DC title of the era.


>Gaiman also incor****ated other obscure old DC characters, like the
>cast of the Kirby "Sandman" series from the 1970s, but reinvented them
>in various ways.

Yeah, uh, reinvented them, like James Robinson "reinvented" them for 
Starman :):)

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