The Books of Magic Annual #1: Dark As Day, My Lady, Bright As Night
First published in January? 1997.
Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Mark Buckingham
Colorist: James Sinclair
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Inker: Dick Giordano
Cover artist: Hermann Meija
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Editor: Julie Rottenberg
- Page 1
- Panel 5: "Little twist of skirt."- What Tam Lin called Skept when he went back to the island.
- Page ?
- Panel 2: The Dreaming; the gargoyle is Goldie. Goldie appears in Sandman and The Dreaming. The mansion is probably the House of Mystery.
- Panel 3: Hell. (submitted by Shannon Patrick Sullivan)
- Panel 5: Gemworld. The woman is Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld.
- Panel 6: This is probably Skartaris, land of Travis Morgan, the Warlord.
- Panel 1: Tim has somehow recovered his glasses and satchel.
- Page 19
- Panel 5: In Greek mythology, Ladon is a hundred-headed dragon who guards the Garden of the Hesperides. His grandmother, Ceto, is the sister of Thaumas.
- Page 23
- Panel 1: Thaumas was a sea god in Greek mythology; his name means "wonder" and he was the father of the birdlike Harpies.
- Page 28
- Panel 5: A "seneschal" is an agent or steward in charge of a lord's estate in feudal times. (source: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
- Page 33
- Panel 5: She killed him so she could go to a party? Yikes.
- Column
- Kash Hefley's letter: How nifty to see someone you know in print!
Extras: So was Tim there because Skept needed him or because Tam Lin needed him?
Contributors include:
Greg Morrow is the editor of the Sandman Annotations, whose format and legal information I have used here.
Sascha Segan inspired me with his page, Suburban Mythos: The Books of Magic, and helped me begin these annotations. Sascha also provided information regarding Skept.
Shannon Patrick Sullivan provided information on Goldie, Skartaris, Ladon, Ceto, and Thaumas, and noticed the reappearance of Tim's glasses and satchel.
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary provided a definition of "seneschal."