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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 803017" data-attributes="member: 505">That was the "in comic" reason.  But they did that because it was established in DC continuity that someone else was in charge of the land of dreams prior to the invention of this character.   I remember reading about a character in the Who's Who In The DC Universe series way back when who was in charge of the dream dimension (Who's Who was a series that acted as DC's guide to their characters, for those that don't know).Anyway, I think that the character was related to that series that had the Star-Spangled Kid, Jade, and Obsidian in it. Now that I think about it, it may have been the former Silver Scarab (or whatever his name was) who was killed and became a hero named Sandman.  I'm really not sure on the events since I didn't collect the original comics and am getting my info from an entry in Who's Who. Anyway, he was supposed to be the new ruler of the land of dreams in that series (with 2 dream assistants).  DC tried to pull all of its continuity together and had to explain it away when they created The Dreaming. Part of the problems of trying to invoke retroactive continuity.   I think they got into this explanation at the end of Sandman with the character of that superheroine (Lyta or Fury or something).  Her son was the son of that superhero Sandman.Or something like that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Boy, it's so confusing trying to explain this since DC has had so many Sandman's at one point or another.  Not to mention all their continuity reboots.</blockquote>

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