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.)