I love sharing with friends. I love their stories. I learn so much from my friends and the stuff they go through. Sharing with friends is the greatest gift. Siting with a friend over a cup of coffee chatting it up about daily stuff, listening to the tears or having a kiki always takes me out of my space for just a few moments. When I need a friend they’re there to hear my story as well.

Story

"Essentially a story should be entertaining. It should lift you out of the fact that you're sitting on a brownstone stoop … Or the subway; the subway should disappear, and you're living in the world of the story. That is the ideal of the story." - Gardner Fox

Wesley Dodds is one of the first “Mystery Men” of the 1940’s. Dodds is a brilliant inventor, a master detective and fighter. Creating the tools (Gas Mask, Wirepoon, and a Gas Gun) he needs to solve mystery. But one tool he did not create and that is prophetic dreams that lead him to in the direction to the mysteries. Using the moniker of “Sandman” and joining forces with the Justice Society of America Wesley Dodds was a first among many stories.

We all have a story to tell. Some are just more colorful than others. There are parables, narratives, descriptions, allegories, biographies and myths. The trick in reading, watching, or hearing a story is to stop look and listen. When a friend is telling their story watch how they are sitting, look at the eye-contact and listen to the words this person is sharing everything they have. Sharing a story with a friend is the greatest form of sharing. Stories are the best way to learn and to get to know a person.

Sandman – Wesley Dodds
First Appearances Adventure Comics #40, July 1939; "New York World's Fair Comics”, 1939

Creators: Gardner Fox (writer) & Bert Christman (art)