Slave # 3 (illustrated by Nicole Ingram)

While at his first Renaissance Faire, Hob Gadling and his girlfriend Guenevere talk about Hob’s “ancestors.” She mentioned to him that a man named Hinnegan uncovered that throughout history there were several Robert Gadling including a printer and publisher and one owned a fleet of ships.

These are, of course, Hob, having lived for several centuries and tried his hand at various occupations and trades.

Hob is distressed, remembering that while he owned the fleet of ships he was a slave trader and brought slaves to America. The English owned all the ships that brought the slaves to America. They would sell trade the slaves to the colonies for cotton and molasses, which they would bring to England. They would use the profits from the sales to purchase more slave.

When England made slave trading illegal and they were at risk of being boarded while in transit or if there was bad weather they would sometimes dump their cargo. The slaves were all chained together and so when one went overboard they would all quickly follow.

Hob is still haunted by nightmares of this.

Gwen doesn’t know that Hob is over 600 years old and was responsible for some of these actions. While she thinks that some things can just be forgotten, Hob is unable to do that.

This is one of the slaves from Hob’s memory.

He appears in Sandman # 73, on page 6, in panel 4.

Dreamer # 110 (illustrated by Max Rugers)

In Dream Hunters, the Monk enters The Dreaming in hopes of saving the life of the fox who visits his small monastery and who, in turn, had saved his life from the dark dreams implanted by the Onmyoji.

As he walked through the dream realm he encountered many strange things, but perhaps the strangest was when he finally encountered the Lord Of Dreams.

When the Monk finally stood before Dream he implored him to save the life of the fox. The Monk noticed, within the robes of the Dream King, faces of the sleepers and dreamers flitted through the fabric.

This Dreamer is one of the faces that the Monk saw within the folds of the cloth.

She appears in P. Craig Russell’s Dream Hunters # 3, on page 19, in panel 2.

Girl # 1 (illustrated by Anna Hybsier)

After recovering his stolen tools of office, Dream visits the waking world and sits at a fountain feeding pigeons. He feels a huge let down since reclaiming his helmet, pouch of sand and seeing the ruby destroyed because he had a responsibility outside his normal function and now that it’s completed he doesn’t know how to move forward.

Death appears and tries to cheer him up. She talks about the Disney film, Mary Poppins.

This little girl runs past them chasing pigeons as they are talking.

The girl appears in Sandman # 8, on page 5, in panel 7.

Dignitary # 153 (illustrated by Kai Martin)

Dream and his lover, Killalla Of The Glow, travel to a palace to attend the parliament concerning zones of responsibility and the merits of obligation for creation.

Dignitaries from various planets, realms and realities gather to be a part of this important meeting.

This Dignitary is one of many who gathered at the palace. He is in the background talking to another dignitary as Death arrives at the parliament. As she decends the stairs, all of the Dignitaries stop talking to watch Death’s decent down the stairs into the courtyard.

This Dignitary appears Endless Nights, in the story, “The Heart Of The Star,” on page 8 in panel 2.

David Letterman (illustrated by Lars Brown)

David Letterman is an American late night talk show host. His show was called Late Night With David Letterman and his show would bring in celebrity guests for brief and sometimes comical interviews as well as musical performances from some of the most popular musicians at the time.

If you would like to read more about David Letterman you can check out his biography here.

In Death: The Time Of Your Life, Foxglove appears on The David Letterman Show. She was going to perform “George’s Tongue” but instead played “Whole Wide World,” which is the song from the soundtrack she is promoting.

David Letterman appears in Death: The Time Of Your Life # 1, on page 23, in panel 14.