Jed Walker is a DC Comics character. Originally called Jed Paulsen, he appeared in Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's short lived series The Sandman, where he was protected from nightmare monsters by the titular hero. He lived with his grandfather, Ezra Paulsen, and, after his grandfather's death, with a tyrannical aunt and uncle. This change occurred in issue #5.

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  • Jed Walker is a DC Comics character. Originally called Jed Paulsen, he appeared in Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's short lived series The Sandman, where he was protected from nightmare monsters by the titular hero. He lived with his grandfather, Ezra Paulsen, and, after his grandfather's death, with a tyrannical aunt and uncle. This change occurred in issue #5. Uncle Barnaby and Aunt Clarice come to Dolphin Island in that issue, intending to take Jed away from Paulsen, and realizing that Paulsen is dead (he was drowned by a sea monster early in the issue, and the Sandman was unable to save him), have no one to fight for him. He is bullied by his brutish cousins, Bruce and Susan, and forced to do most of the household chores and gardening work, while not being allowed to partake of the food that everyone else eats. Neil Gaiman's revisionist version of The Sandman showed the somewhat Cinderella-like tyranny of Jed's guardians as genuine abusive behaviour. It was also revealed that they were being paid off by Desire, $800 a month to keep him alive. It also explained that his personal dreamscape was being used by the "Sandman"'s supposed assistants in an attempt to take over the Dreaming. The power of Jed's dreams is presumably connected to his being the brother of Rose Walker and the grandson of Unity Kinkaid. Clarice and Barnaby, who appeared briefly in issue #12, were revealed to have died in issue #14. In Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2, Kirby revealed that he is the Earth-1 equivalent of Kamandi, although in the current continuity, Kamandi has been identified with Tommy Tomorrow.
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  • Jed Walker is a DC Comics character. Originally called Jed Paulsen, he appeared in Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's short lived series The Sandman, where he was protected from nightmare monsters by the titular hero. He lived with his grandfather, Ezra Paulsen, and, after his grandfather's death, with a tyrannical aunt and uncle. This change occurred in issue #5.
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  • Jed Walker
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