Story: "Sleep of the Just" (40 Pages)

Credits: Neil Gaiman (plot, script); Sam Kieth (pencils); Mike Dringenberg (inks); Todd Klein (letters); Robbie Busch (colors); Karen Berger (edits)

Feature Character: Morpheus (first appearance; lord of the Dreaming; one of the Endless)

Villains: Lord Roderick Burgess (a.k.a. The Daemon King; born Morris Burgess Brocklesby; first appearance; Lord Magus of The Order of Ancient Mysteries; dies), Alex Burgess (first appearance; Roderick Burgess' son and later Lord Magus; next in issue #62), Ruthven Sykes (first appearance; Roderick's second-in-command; dies), Paul McGuire (first appearance; Alex's second-in-command and lover; next in issue #62); Ethel Cripps (first appearance; Roderick's mistress; next as Ethel Dee in #2); Choronzon (behind the scenes; voice heard; first actually seen in #4), Corinthian (takes over the body of Stefan Wasserman behind the scenes as revealed in flashback in Sandman Presents: The Corinthian: Death in Venice #1)

Guest Appearance: Sandman I (Wesley Dodds)

Other Characters: Professor John Hathaway (first appearance; senior curator at the Royal Museum in London, England; last in Dreaming #41; dies); Ellie Marsten (a Canadian child from Toronto), Arthur Marsten (her father), Daniel Bustamonte (a Jamaican child from Kingston), Stefan Wasserman (a German soldier, dies; body taken over by the Corinthian as revealed in flashback in Sandman Presents: The Corinthian: Death in Venice #1), Unity Kinkaid (an English child from London; next in issue #10), Ernie, Frederick (two guards), Mort Notkin, Nurse Edmunds (first appearance of all)