Nick Barrucci's $63,000 Sandman Purchase And 25 Other Bleeding Cool Stories You May Have Missed

Dynamite Entertainment’s Nick Barrucci has been splashing out on some original Sandman artwork pages from the earliest Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg examples, picking up this Sandman #4 Double-Page Spread pages 10-11 that had to be recut when collected in the trade paperback for a mere $63,000.

"Well, went all in on this one. I've wanted a Sandman page for many, many years. But with the increased prices of the art, it had to be something meaningful. This page from issue #4 which had the first appearance of Lucifer, and this double page spread of the conversation, MORE than fit the bill! Wow. I honestly cannot believe that I was able to win it! Sam Kieth! Mike Dringenberg! Neil Gaiman! Morpheus! Lucifer! Wow! From the very first story arc, this page features Lord Dream of the Endless meeting with Lucifer Morningstar in an effort to retrieve the missing helm of Dream's. This is one of the scenes that was adapted for the Netflix TV Sandman series! A dark and unsettling page with strange panel layouts, it really does transport the reader to an uncomfortable realm. This two-page spread format only appeared in the original periodical monthly comic book. It had to be redrawn as two separate pages for the trade paperback collection as the page breakdown of the later publication required separate back-to-back pages versus the side-by-side spread."

Okay, so what stories might you have missed out on at Bleeding Cool in the last week? These are stories you should not have read elsewhere or if you did, with a very different take and context. No PR here… Expect this to be a little more regular, and thanks for the recent Matt Rosenberg Substack bump!

1. When The Daily Mail Gets "Woke" Over The Beano Comic

2. Compare How Mark Buckingham Completely Redrew Miracleman Silver Age

3. Gotham City Year One Contains Warnings For Racially Offensive Language

4. Jason Pearson Says Afua Richardson Gets Work Because She's Beautiful

5. Dale Keown's First Live YouTube Has Him Asleep For The Last Four Hours

6. First Look Disney+ Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules & Diper Överlöde

7. Damian Wayne Recreates Classic Batman Robin Meme (Spoilers)

8. Beast Boy, Deathstroke And More Bleeding Cool Dark Crisis Gossip

9. A Week In The Life Of Banned Graphic Novel, Gender Queer

10. Superman: Son Of Kal-El To Come Out To The DC Universe This Week

11. (Super Spoilers) *That* Kiss From Superman: Son Of Kal-El

12. Minnie Mouse No Longer "Dripping With Excitement" At Disney

13. BiliBili Comics WebComic Spambots are 'Riveting and Full of Surprises'

14. Comic Creators React To The Death Of Queen Elizabeth II

15. Bad Idea Comics Challenges Critics to Stop Them at New York Comic-Con

16. Coliseum Of Comics Opens Tenth Store, In South East Orlando

17. Spider-Man/X-Men Dark Web Checklist, From Dusk Till Dawn

18. After 40 Years Graphitti Design Is On Production Hiatus

19. Appearing Together, Marvel & DC Comics' Editors-In-Chief

20. Judas Traveller From Spider-Man's Clone Saga To A New Krakoan Big Bad

21. Poison Ivy Speaks In Favour Of Unions, While Murdering The Workforce

22. About Comics Putting Henry Leonard's Dayenu Strips Back Into Print

23. Grant Morrison Talks Link Between Drag & Superheroes to Seth Meyers

24. Secret Cinema's Guardians Of The Galaxy Experience Explodes Wembley

25. Briar #1 Orders Doubled At FOC To 58,000 After Creator Praise