Essential Vertigo Sandman (1996) #31
Reprints Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #31. Distant Mirrors: Part 3 of 3: Three Septembers and a January - Written by Neil Gaiman. Art by Shawn McManus. Cover by Dave McKean.
Despair, Desire and Delirium make a nineteenth-century mortal man their pawn in a game of family intrigue against Dream. Challenged to keep the man out of the three sisters' realms until his death, Morpheus grants one Joshua Abraham Norton the dream of a lifetime: To crown himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America.
32 pages, full color. Mature Readers. Cover price $2.25.