Initially, Destiny was a sort of host or master of ceremonies for Weird Mystery Tales, introducing the various anthology tales. Then, he was portrayed as a blind but all-seeing cosmic entity perpetually chained to a book that contains all the knowledge that existed or ever will exist. The concept of The Endless didn't exist at that point, obviously, but the basics of Destiny were already well in place. Destiny actually made his debut in 1972's Weird Mystery Tales #1, some 17 years before Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg launched their Sandman series. That includes servants of The Dreaming like Lucien, Cain and Abel as well as the oldest member of the Endless family, Destiny. And really, there's no way to separate the two, as several main characters existed in the DCU well before Sandman itself was a thing. The Pre-Sandman Era As seen in: Various The Sandman comics have never been entirely divorced from the rest of the DCU, even as the series veered more in the direction of cosmic fantasy after its first couple story arcs. Here are five major times the Dream and his fellow Endless have appeared in other DC books (along with a few extra cameos). Dream and his siblings usually have far more pressing concerns than the struggles of a few colorfully dressed mortals on one particular Earth. That hasn't really changed even with DC officially rolling the Vertigo Universe back into the DCU. While the Sandman franchise is technically connected to the DC Universe, it's very rare to see these characters directly cross paths with DC's heroes. The biggest development in this issue involved the surprise appearance of Dream, protagonist of Neil Gaiman's Sandman saga.
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