WHAT THE FUCK man.

Omar: Baker’s shirt is supposed to be ugly, though – it’s his prison uniform, which certainly shouldn’t look fashionable. You want your inmates wearing something that won’t allow them to blend in with a crowd, right? Well no one in their right mind would willingly wear a green shirt with horizontal black stripes…

Really?

And for me, it’s got to Morpheus. I care nothing for latter-day Gaiman-bashers. I adore that series.

On another note, barring that green-n-white Kirby costume he had for a while in the 60s and 70s, Marvel’s Sandman doesn’t really wear a costume. He just wears khakis, loafers, and a spectacularly ugly striped shirt. (In point of fact, a small but significant number of the early Marvel villains didn’t start out with costumes, at least not in the usual sense.)

Also, perhaps we should not that Jack Kirby was involved in redesigning andcostuming two of the Sandmen on the list, and created yet a third.

I loved the Simon/Kirby Sandman as well. It was a cool concept that was never fully explored.

That particular version of the character was used by Roy Thomas in a Wonder Woman storyline where he was essentially stalking the Amazing Amazon in her dreams because he was “in love.” Nice. Thanks a lot, Roy.

He next appeared (sort of) in Infinity Inc., where the presumed dead Hector Hall revealed himself as the Sandman’s inheritor.

The Hector Hall Sandman then appeared in the Gaiman Sandman, where Morpheus revealed that Hector was merely a pawn of two protoplasmic beings. (Forgot their names. They were suppposed to be sidekicks of the Kirby Sandman.)

Finally, *whew,” Sand was manipulated by those very same protoplasmic guys to become the “new” Sandman.

Simple. Right?

Baker a close 2nd though–the others–I never cared for.

Still he’s got the coolest power set of Marvel’s rogues.

And, sorry, but Wagner and Davis’s take on Wesley Dodds puts him at number one for me – despite the coolness that is the Lee/Ditko Sandman. And the William Baker Sandman doesn’t have a lousy costume, Matt – his costume is one of the few that looks good no matter who draws it AND never looks dated or silly. Nice and simple – a classic design.

I think, perhaps, you should have split it into catergories – costume, abilities, achievements, etc.

For example, Wesley has by far the coolest costume while William has the worst.

But yes, point duly noted, Funky!”

Just to run it into the ground (and it’s one of the few books I reckon I can out nerd you on)he considered
Daniel ‘his’, in the sense that Cain and Abel, The Corinthian and every other part of the dreaming was ‘his’.
Daniel was special because he was a human born in the dreaming, but he was still of the dreaming…

So born of dream, but not Dream’s son.

A one panel semi-visable appearence during the death sequence of Dr. Fate and Fury. The latter calls out to him saying she accepts some sort of deal.

This was following a 2 part story were the Kirby Sandman (number 4) was retconned into being the dreamworld persona of JSA member Sand.

Tell me about it. I did not give them permission to use my likeness!

Apparently, Daniel also appeared during a fairly recent issue of JSA. Which is…scary to think about.