Interested in learning about the history of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, including only characters and titles written by or directly supervised by Gaiman? Here’s the abbreviated table of contents for you: Holub, Christian (September 28, 2022). "Surprise, The Sandman fans! Audible just released Act III of their audiobook adaptation". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 3, 2022.

Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 262: "In March 1993, DC Comics debuted a three-issue limited series entitled Death: The High Cost of Living... Written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by future comics superstar Chris Bachalo, The High Cost of Living had one notable trait besides a brilliant story: its cover bore a new logo. With this debut, DC's provocative new mature-reader imprint, Vertigo, was born." it’s very liberating actually, having one that is the pure control that means that we know where the doors are open for Netflix and where we can go, “Okay, well, this character is male in the original, is there any particular reason why this character has to be male? Oh, there was no point at which this character desperately needs to use their penis to stir tea or something. Let’s change that and see.”” The Absolute Death, collecting The Sandman #8 and #20, Death: The High Cost of Living #1–3, Death: The Time of Your Life #1–3, "A Winter's Tale" from Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2, "The Wheel" from 9–11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember, and "Death and Venice" from The Sandman: Endless Nights. Extras include the "Death Talks About Life" AIDS pamphlet, script and pencils for The Sandman #8 ("The Sound of Her Wings"), a complete reproduction of A Death Gallery (a one-shot of Death-inspired art), a section on the collectibles inspired by Death, and sketches by Chris Bachalo. Published November 2009.

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This is not a surprise, as Gaiman is heavily involved in its development and is an executive producer on the show. It also helps that fellow producers David Goyer and Allan Heinberg are on board with adapting the comic as closely as possible. Gaiman told Yahoo News in 2020, “It feels so amazingly Sandman… You won’t believe how Sandman it is.” Destiny is the only Endless who has appeared independently of Dream and Death in the DC Universe. As a pre-existing DC character, he is seemingly immune to the unstated Gaiman-Embargo where all of his appearances must be explicitly approved.

Gaiman, Neil (2006). "Preface". In Sanders, Joe (ed.). The Sandman Papers: An Exploration of the Sandman Mythology. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books. ISBN 1-56097-748-5.These editions are probably best suited for die-hard Gaiman/Sandman fans or those looking to get the most out of a reread. Desire is Despair’s twin and is depicted as various genders or androgynously. We first meet them on-panel in The Sandman (1989) #10, and learn that they have a long-standing enmity with Dream. The Sandman is both a somewhat obscure Golden Age hero revived by the Justice Society for modern audiences and one of the most widely-read characters in the history of American comics.