Sandman Midnight Theatre
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| Sandman Midnight Theatre | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Format | One-shot |
| Publication date | 1995 |
| No. of issues | 1 |
| Main character(s) | Sandman Dream Wesley Dodds |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Matt Wagner (co-plot) Neil Gaiman (co-plot/script) |
| Artist | Teddy Kristiansen |
| Letterer | Todd Klein |
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.[1]
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 the storylines "The Python" and "The Mist" (between issues #36 and #37).