Story: "A Six-Card Spread" (22 Pages)

Credits: Mike Carey (plot, script); Chris Weston (pencils, inks); James Hodgkins (inks); Ellie de Ville (letters); Daniel Vozzo (colors, color separatons); Shelly Roeberg (edits)

Feature Character: Lucifer Morningstar (last in Sandman Presents Lucifer #3)

Supporting Characters: Mazikeen (last in Sandman Presents Lucifer #3), Remiel (last in Sandman Presents Lucifer #2; next in issue #15); Jill Presto (first appearance; Hugo Merveille's assistant at the Needle's Eye)

Villains: Meleos (first appearance; a fallen angel and former member of the Seraphim; last in flashback in #2), The Basanos (first appearance), Susano-O-No-Mikoto (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #26; the son of Izanami, the Speaker in Thunder; next in issue #5); Gunter, Erich, Eckerhart (first appearance of all three; Nazi supporters)

Other Characters: Karl (first appearance; an assitant at Meleos' bookstore), Jayesh Deva (first appearance; a Jewish kid), Rupinder Deva (first appearance; Jayesh's father), Hugo Merveille (Hugo Poulenc; first appearance; a magician at the Needle's Eye), Lotte (first appearance; a colleague of Jill's), Sigrid Mahler (first appearance; a prostitute)