Issue 39: Solitaire

Compiled and edited by Laura Drescher

Solitaire Part 12 of arc #4, Rites of Passage
First story reprinted in ???
First published in August 1997.

Writer: John Ney Rieber
Artist: Peter Gross
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft/LA
Cover artist: M.W. Kaluta
Constultant: Neil Gaiman
Editor: Julie Rottenberg

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Page 1
Panel 1-2: The flyer is advertising a performance of Zatanna's.

Page 4
Panel 8: Durer was a German woodcut artist. The picture Tala is holding in Panel 9 does indeed look like a Durer.

Page 5
Panel 5: Boy, I wonder what she was going to say.

Page 10
Panel 1: One wonders what the particulars of Tala's religion are.

Page 17
Panel 2: Check out the milk carton in the lower left-hand corner. Also notice the lava lamp on the dresser.

Page 21
Panel 10: "One of the classic fairy curses..." I haven't found any text about faerie curses yet.

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 pointed out the face on the milk carton.