The two eventually fall in love as members of the Justice Society of America, but Hector is later killed by a villain known as The Silver Scarab.

Hippolyta) is the daughter of Earth-Two's Wonder Woman.

In the comics, Hector Hall is the son of Hawkman and Hawkgirl from an alternate multiverse called Earth-Two. Requiring near genius-level knowledge of DC Comics lore, the original Lyta and Hector Hall from The Sandman comics made for one of the strangest crossovers of the entire series. Lucifer will also be portrayed by a woman actor, Gwendoline Christie, for the Netflix show. The titular Dream will be portrayed by Tom Sturridge in the show.Liam Daniel // Netflix Lyta and Hector Hall In case you didn’t already know, John Constantine is also a regular in the Sandman comic books, though he did not originate in them and the character will be reimagined as a woman - Jenna Coleman’s Johanna Constantine - for the Netflix show. There are a lot of other instances of The Sandman characters appearing in live action, such as the various shows in the CW’s Arrowverse however, that is a category deserving of its own list. But in the Constantine film, Lucifer is still the dark realm’s ruler. In The Sandman comics, Lucifer gives up control of hell. Keanu Reeves starred as the titular John Constantine in the film, the main character of Vertigo’s Hellblazer comic series, with Fargo’s Peter Stormare portraying a delightfully slimy Lucifer. In the world of DC, the character Lucifer may have originated in The Sandman, but a different interpretation of the character - whose broader cultural origins can be traced back to ancient folklore - also appeared in the somewhat-underrated comic book film Constantine. There’s even more to be said about the older versions of Sandman that is deserving of its own article, but suffice it to say Gaiman’s iteration of the character is the one that most people remember best. But have the old school Sandman and the new school one ever met? We’re glad you asked… The character would undergo a few redesigns and reimaginings in the 1940s and 1970s, the latter of which was re-envisioned by the legendary Jack Kirby.

The character also wore a gas mask, presumably so he would not be inoculated by his own sleeping-gas gun, which he used to make criminals go unconscious. Beginning in the 1930s, a masked vigilante named Wesley Dodd fought crime utilizing dreams that predicted the future while sporting a green suit and fedora, as Alabama’s Huntsville-Madison County Public Library blog pointed out. While Gaiman undoubtedly revitalized the Sandman name within the world of DC, his revolutionary version was not the first one to bear that name in the company’s long history.

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