Story: "The Python Act One" (23 Pages)

Credits: Matt Wagner and Stephen T. Seagle (plot, script); Warren Pleece (pencils, inks); David Hornung (colors); Heroic Age (color separations); John Costanza (letters); Karen Berger (edits)

Feature Character: Sandman I

Supporting Characters: Dian Belmont, Leslie Humphries, Lawrence Belmont, Tony Burke (last in issue #28), Hubert Klein (last in issue #27), Etta Humphries (in between issue #30 and #35), Carol Swanson (last in issue #16), Ross O'Donald (behind the scenes; in between issue #15 and #37)

Villains: Python (Jake Bonoir, born Jacob Bernstein; first appearance; the head of the Bonoir Gymnasium)

Other Characters: Nancy Dorsch (first appearance), Emmett Beedle (dies), Agatha (Beedle's secretary), Colleen Duprey (an actress and the sister of Emmett Beedle), Norma (the owner of a New York brothel), Thelma Adams (Jake Bonoir's former adoptive mother; dies), Rawley Adams (Thelma's son), Greta (an employee at Y.W.C.A.)