Daniel Hall

Daniel Hall is a fictional character in the Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman. An infant for the majority of the Sandman series, he is the son of Hippolyta 'Lyta' Hall and Hector Hall, borne for two years in the Dreaming (where the Halls were being held prisoner by Brute and Glob, two nightmares who had escaped during Dream's earthly exile). Hector Hall was a perennial DC character, son of Carter Hall (the Golden Age Hawkman), and has assumed many guises during his stay in the DC Universe, and was at one point the Sandman and hence he inherited the same identity in Gaiman's Sandman. Lyta was the daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman and once a superheroine called the Fury. Daniel, at the end of the Sandman series, becomes the new Dream of the Endless after the demise of his predecessor. Daniel's father, Hector was already dead when Brute and Glob used his ghost and planned to make him the ruler of the Dreaming in Morpheus's absence. Lyta and Hector's ghost lived together in... full article at wikipedia