Dates
- Cover date
- January 1996
- On sale
- January 11, 1996
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #74 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07099231011101
This edition’s page
Story arc: The Wake
This is part 4 of 4. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Sandman #70
- Sandman #71
- Sandman #72
- Sandman #74
Creators
Stories
- Exiles · 24 pages
Master Li is exiled from the Chinese imperial court and wanders the desert where he meets the Sandman who offers him a job as counselor but Li turns him down.
Publisher’s description
At the borders of the Dreaming, places that never existed meet in the not-quite-real. In one of these soft places, questions are answered and one last story is played out between the new Sandman, Daniel, and the freshly buried Lord of Dreams.
Reprinted in
The Sandman: The Wake (1997), The Sandman: The Wake (1997), The Sandman: The Wake (1997), The Sandman [Sandman Library Edition] (1999), The Absolute Sandman (2006), The Sandman (2010), The Annotated Sandman (2011), The Sandman Omnibus (2013), The Sandman (2018), The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition (2020), The Sandman (2022)