These two characters both have their influences on The Sandman. For example, Dream’s black, elongated helm is an interpretation of Dodds’ 1940s gas mask, and the linking of Sandman to actual ...

The Sandman belongs to the pantheon of great graphic ... “helm” in the book and series), which resembles an elongated gas mask with giant buglike eyes and an elephantine trunk — he looks ...

This Sandman (real name Wesley Dodds) fought crime with a gas mask and a sleep gun and was part of the Justice Society of America, the first “super team” in comics. As the continuities between ...

The helm (shaped to resemble the gas mask worn by DC Comics' original superhero who went by the name of the Sandman) offers powerful protection, and Dream feels naked without it. The ruby contains ...

The Sandman was Wesley Dodds ... Dodds had no powers, and even his costume (a fedora, a gas mask, and a green business suit) was fairly minimalist as far as superhero costumes went.

“The Sandman” is a comic series following the ... who has stolen the tools of his trade — sand, a ruby and a weird gas mask, all of which are apparently essential to his power yet none ...