sandman
Speech parts
1. sandman - Noun
2. Sandman - Proper noun
Meaning
A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
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I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well that explains a lot about the DC Universe."
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
;After The Sandman In her middle age, Johanna Constantine is charged by persons unknown with the key to a box containing the sigil of America, allegedly created by Destiny.
;After The Sandman Following the end of the Sandman series, Remiel and Duma lose ownership of Hell in the Lucifer spin-off series.
;After The Sandman Following the end of The Sandman series, Remiel and Duma lose ownership of Hell in the Lucifer spin-off series.
;After The Sandman The Three later appeared in a graphic novel named WitchCraft, in which one of their priestesses in ancient Rome, Ursula, is raped by barbarians.