The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. It tells the story of Dream of the Endless, who rules over the realm of dreams. The Endless are anthropomorphic personifications of various metaphysical entities, such as Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium (formerly Delight) and Destruction. The original series ran for 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996.