Compiled and edited by Laura Drescher
A Thousand Worlds of Tim
First story reprinted in ???
First published in August 1998.
Writer and Artist: Peter Gross
Finishes: Temujin, pages 7-10
Colorist: Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
Separations: Jamison
Letterer: Comicraft
Cover artist: M.W. Kaluta
Assistant editor: Cliff Chiang
Editor: Stuart Moore
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- Page 1
- Panel 1: The Library (and The Dreaming, of course) appear, as do Lucien and Titania, in Sandman.
- Page 1
- Panel 3: Well, that's questionable. As we learned during Rites of Passage, Faerie is located in Hell. We're never told where The Dreaming is, or even if it is extant in relation to anything else in any real sense.
- Page 1
- Panel 4: We're about to find out.
- Page 2
- Panel 2: I'm unsure as to why this panel is here. Any ideas?
- Page 6
- Panel 4: The photos are all Tims from different worlds. Some pictures include a Molly as wekk, and I think I see Zatanna in one on the right.
- Page 8
- Panel 1: Finally we see the accident where Mary Hunter was killed and where Bill Hunter lost his arm. Looks like he hit a bus. Note that it seems to have taken place in front of that ever-present ice cream shop.
- Page 8
- Panel 3: A happy Molly and Tim with a child. Looks like they're living in faerie.
- Page 8
- Panel 5: Circe, I think. Notice the tattoo on the left arm; it could be the Taurus tattoo Circe has.
- Page 8
- Panel 6: I really have no idea. Do you?
- Page 8
- Panel 6: Tim taking after his father, sitting in the chair in front of the TV with a bottle. Notice the picture on the wall on the left.
- Page 8
- Panel 7: A scene from the miniseries- in an alternate universe. Notice that Tim's clothes are rather more clean cut than in the miniseries. This may be the first time Tim Hunter has ever appeared in a button-down shirt! The figures, of course, are The Phantom Stranger, Dr. Occult, Mr. E, and John Constantine.
- Page 9-10
- Panel 3: That's the Tim that becomes/became Mr. Wrong, escorted by the demon Barbatos.
- Page 9-10
- Panel 4: There's something about these fish having to do with Merlin and Arthur, but I can't remember what it is. Do you know? Tell me.
- Page 9-10
- Panel 6: Well, they die, right? More terrible than that?
- Page 9-10
- Panel 16: "Kuai" is popular graphitti in this series. However, it did not appear in the Miniseries in the place where Tim was skateboarding. It appeared early in the ongoing series, since it used to be John Ney Reiber's email username.
- Page 14
- Panel 1: "Red Apple Books"- perhaps a reference to the fairy tale Snow White?
- Page 14
- Panel 5: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet is by Eleanor Cameron. Something Wicked This way Comes is by Ray Bradbury. The City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire are by John Christopher.
- Page 14
- Panel 6: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are both by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Page 16
- Panel 2: Evidently Tim still met Death and planted the seeds in this reality.
- Page 16
- Panel 9: Evidently it's a pretty similar reality, in fact.
- Page 19
- Panel 3 So I was right on with the Red Apple Books being a Snow White reference. Spiffy.
- Page 21
- Panel 4: "Green Bitch" just fits her well, doesn't it?
- Page 23
- Panel 1: The Inns have been explained previously in Sandman.
- Page 23
- Panel 2: Joh appears again in Issue 64. In a message on the mailing list, dated March 24, 1999, Peter Gross said that Joh was "a girl who is drawn suspiciously like my niece."
- Page 23
- Panel 4: Accasbel who plays pipes:
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.