Comic Title: Sandman:The Doll's House TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 1990
Approx. On Sale Date: August 7, 1990 Direct Market Date May 10, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #149

Cover Price: $12.95
Page Count: 256
Editor: KC Carlson

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Notes:
The first printing of this volume contains the story "The Sound of Her Wings". Subsequent printings moves this story to Volume 1, Preludes and Nocturnes

Title: "Moving In"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Sandman (Morpheus)

Writer: Neil Gaiman
Penciller: Mike Dringenberg
Inker: Malcolm Jones III
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Robbie Busch

Reprinted From:
Sandman #11 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Dream (last appearance in Sandman #10; next appearance in Sandman #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lucien (last appearance in Sandman #10; next appearance in Sandman #22)
• Matthew (last appearance in Sandman #7; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Rose Walker (last appearance in Sandman #10; next appearance in Sandman #12)
• Fiddler's Green (aka Gilbert; identity not revealed in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Sandman #12)

Villain(s)

• Corinthian (last appearance in Sandman #10; next appearance in Sandman #12)
• Barnaby (Jed's foster father; name not given in this story; mostly behind-the-scenes; next appearance in Sandman #12)
• Nimrod (a serial killer; behind-the-scenes; on the telephone; next appearance in Sandman #14)
• A gang of neo nazis (no further appearances)
• Doctor Lobster (a character in Jed's dream; no further appearances)
• Brute and Glob (last appearance in Infinity Inc. #50; next appearance in Sandman #12)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Sandman (Hector Hall; last appearance in Infinity Inc. #51; next appearance in Sandman #12)
• Lyta Hall (last appearance in Infinity Inc. #51; next appearance in Sandman #12)

Other Character(s)

• Hal Carter (aka Dorothy Lamour; Rose's landlord; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Chantal and Zelda (Rose's housemates; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Barbie (one of Rose's housemates; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Ken (Barbie's husband; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Jed (Rose's brother; next appearance in Sandman #12)

Comments:
The Doll's House Part 2

One week passes between Sandman #10 and this story which continues in Sandman #12.

Gilbert is revealed to be Fiddler's Green in Sandman #16. His human form, Gilbert, is based on G.K. Chesterton, a English writer and poet. Hal makes a reference to Gilbert requesting a pencil to write on the ceiling. This detail is a callback to Chesterton's essay "On Lying in Bed".

Synopsis:
Rose Walker moves into a boarding house in Florida where she begins a search for Jed, her 12-year old brother. Her housemates include: Hal Carter, the cross-dressing landlord; Ken and Barbie, yuppies; Chantal and Zelda, spider collectors; and Gilbert, a rotund Englishman. The search for Jed turns up several clues including the deaths of their father and grandfather. Eventually a private investigator finds that Jed is living on a farm. Rose and Gilbert embark on a road trip to find him.

Meanwhile, Dream keeps tabs on Rose, who is a vortex, using Matthew the Raven as a spy. Dream hopes that Rose will ensnare the rogue dreams: Fiddler's Green, Brute and Glob, and the Corinthian. Dream locates Jed, who has been locked in a basement and escapes to a world of dreams. Brute and Glob have isolated the boy's dreams from the main dream world. This angers Dream, who dons his helmet and prepares to seek retribution on the rogue dreams.