Oh, Goldie, are you accompanying our able assistant on his rounds today? 
- — Lucien
The Dreaming #55 is an issue of the series The Dreaming (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 2000.
Synopsis for "The Further Adventures of Danny Nod, Heroic Library Assistant"
Appearing in "The Further Adventures of Danny Nod, Heroic Library Assistant"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Librarian Corps (Single appearance)
- Assistant Biggles (Single appearance) (Cameo)
- Assistant Toomey (Single appearance) (Cameo)
- Lucien
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- The Book Lands characters (In dream sequence only)
- The Black Knight (Unnamed)
- Fairies
- King Arthur (Unnamed)
- Nell Fenwick (Unnamed)
- Peter Pan (Unnamed)
- Robin Hood
- Snidely Whiplash (Unnamed)
- Homer (Unnamed)
- Three Little Pigs
- "Mr. Troll"
- Wendy
- The Gatekeepers
- The Gryphon of Arimaspia (Cameo)
- "The Hippogriff" (Cameo)
- Assistant Molly Mink (Mentioned only)
- Dragons (Mentioned only)
- Giants (Mentioned only)
- Jack of Tales (Mentioned only)
- John Watson (Mentioned only)
- The Sultan (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- The Dreaming
- The Book Lands (First appearance)
- The Beanstalk (First appearance)
- Sherwood Forest
- The Sultan's Court
- The Three Little Pigs' House (First appearance)
- Mirkroad (First appearance; unnamed)
- Palace of Dreams
- Library of Dreams
- The Book Lands (First appearance)
Items:
- The Fables Books
- Danny Nod's Wheelbarrow
- Excalibur (In dream sequence only)
Vehicles:
- Captain Hook's Ship
Concepts:
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales.
Trivia
- Danny Nod calls Goldie by different names that are references to many companions from folklore, literature and popular culture:
- Sgt. Parker from Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels;
- Gunga Din from Rudyard Kipling's eponymous poem;
- Tonto from Lone Ranger stories;
- Little John from Robin Hood's Merry Men;
- Igor from Frankenstein movies;
- Friday from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe;
- Wamba from Walter Scott's Ivanhoe;
- Renfield from Bram Stoker's Dracula;
- Jean Passepartout from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days;
- Planchet from Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers;
- Jeeves from P. G. Wodehouse's stories;
- Tinkerbell from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan;
- Samwise Gamgee from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings;
- Nkima from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes;
- Dr. Watson from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories;
- Sancho Panza from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote;
- Chingachgook from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans;
- Kato from Green Hornet stories.
- Danny Nod proposes an oath for his "Library Corps" which is obviously an homage to the Lantern Corps and their oaths.
See Also
Links and References
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