Pop Culture
Music and Literature
Spin-offs and Pre-Sequels
By Gaiman
- Through the Looking Glass
- Midsummer Night's Dream
- Dante's Inferno
- The Wizard of Oz
- Faust
Gaiman uses both Allusion and Intertextuality to utilize and material from numerous DC comics properties, as well as classic literature, music, film, and television.
Nearly every page of the first volume alludes to other media works from the past to the time of release.
Death: The High Cost of Living
Death: The Time of Your Life
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
The Sandman: Overture
Not by Gaiman
- The Supremes
- The Mamas and the Papas
- The Cordettes
- The Eurythmics
- David Bowie
The Dreaming
Lucifer
Dead Boy Detectives
Death - At Death's Door
Dat Spandex Tho...
The Movie
Ohhh Batman, you shouldn't have...
LOL Wut?
Myth within the text
-Hecataea (or the Moirai)
-Cerce
-Merlin
-Beelzebub and Azazel
The Sandman
In European folklore the Sandman is a dude who sneaks into people's houses and sprinkles magic dust into their eyes that makes them fall asleep and brings them good dreams and stuff.
Big ol' list-o'-references
Morpheus
- Cain and Abel
- Arkham Asylum
- The Supremes
- The Fates
- Dr. Destiny (DC Villain)
In Grecian myth the god of sleep, Hypnos, has three sons: Morpheus, Phantasos, and Phobetor
- The Mamas and the Papas
- John Constantine
- The Cordettes
- Superman
- The Eurythmics
- Swamp Thing (DC Hero)
- Silver Surfer (Marvel Hero)
- Jesus - The Crucifixion
- Aleistar Crowley
- Through the Looking Glass
- Elvis Presley
- Marylin Monroe
- The Duke (John Wayne)
- Colonel Sanders (KFC)
- Sandman (DC Hero)
- Midsummer Night's Dream
Not to be confused with this guy...
- Johnny Carson
- Steven King
- The Addams Family
- Snow White
- Julius Caesar
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Eve ( Adam and...)
- The Wizard of Oz
- Faust
- Lucifer
- Etrigan (DC Villain)
- Dante's Inferno
- David Bowie
- Choronzon
- Scarecrow
- Apocalypse (DC Planet)
- Mr. Miracle (DC Hero)
- Night of the Living Dead
- Justice League
- Martian Manhunter
- Gotham City
- Amazo (DC VIllain)
- Mary Poppins
- Gypsies
- Judaism
- Batman and Robin
The Sandman - Mythology & Pop Culture