Story: "Waking the Sandman Part One: Insomnia" (22 Pages)

Credits: Geoff Johns (plot, script)
Jerry Ordway (pencils)
Wayne Faucher (inks)
Ken Lopez (letters)
Hi Fi (colors, color separations)
Stephen Wacker (associate edits) Peter Tomasi (edits)

Feature Characters:

Doctor Mid-Nite II
Flash I
Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
Hawkgirl II
Hourman I
Mister Terrific II
Power Girl
Stargirl
Wildcat II
Sand (as Sandman)

Guest Stars: Doctor Fate IV
Fury II
Cave Carson
Bulldozer Smith
Christie Madison
Johnny Blake
Brainwave II

Supporting Characters: Wendi Tyler
Power Girl's Cat
Nite-Lite
Lena (Bulldozer's lemur)

Guest Appearances: Nabu
Kent Nelson
Inza Nelson
Eric Strauss
Linda Strauss
The Strauss' dog
Fate
Dream II

Comment: Continues in the next issue

Synopsis:

Few of the JSA are asleep. Hourman is still trying to summon up the courage to meet with Wendi, while the rest are suffering from nightmares and insomnia. They are disturbed further by a localised earthquake, which leaves the letters 'JSA' imprinted in the road outside the Brownstone. Meanwhile, Nabu is raging against the former Doctor Fates inside the current Fate's amulet. Fury and the current Doctor Fate help to even the balance by giving power back to these former bearers of the mantle. The JSA call in Cave Carson, realising that the mini-quake was a message from Sam. Doctor Fate also gets a message from his son, Dream, who tells him that Sand's mind is trapped in the Dreaming just as his body is trapped in the Earth. The heroes split into two teams. One team, accompanied by Fate, Fury and Brainwave, heads into the world of the Dreaming, while the others are aided by Cave Carson and his team to take a trip into the Earth. Both teams encounter the unexpected - inside the Earth, they are greeted by numerous stone beings, while those in the dreaming find themselves in a sandstorm before Hawkgirl encounters Sand, calling himself Sandman and wearing the costume which Garret Sandford and Hector Hall wore in that role.