Vertigo Comics Timeline

This is a timeline of all of the comics I've read that fit into DC's Vertigo universe. This isn't all Vertigo comics (Y: The Last Man, for example, clearly does not fit into this reality). Technically, all of these stories take place in the main DC universe, too, but the main DC universe uses a sliding timeline, whereas Vertigo does not. (Somehow that makes sense.) In addition, many of these stories, like Lucifer aren't really relevant to the main DC universe, and so including them there is fairly pointless. (Even though Lucifer exists in the same universe as the Endless, and Dream of the Endless met the Martian Manhunter, it is pretty clear that Lucifer does not exist in the same universe as the Martian Manhunter.)

• 13,000,000,000 B.C.E.
• Neil Gaiman's Murder Mysteries
• 4,000,000,000 B.C.E.
• "The Heart of a Star" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• Iron Age
• "What I've tasted of Desire" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• 133 C.E.
• prologue to WitchCraft
• 565 C.E.
• "Byzantium" (in Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold)
• Middle Ages
• Swamp Thing: "Jack in the Green" (in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days)
• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
• 1342
• "Maiden" (in WitchCraft)
• 1348
• "Black Death" (in Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold)
• 1665
• "Eyam" (in Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold)
• 1751
• "Death and Venice" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• 1842
• "Mother" (in WitchCraft)
• 1915
• The Sandman: Overture: The Deluxe Edition
• 1938
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Face and The Brute
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Vamp
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Scorpion
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: Dr. Death and The Night of the Butcher
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Hourman and The Python
• 1939
• Sandman Midnight Theatre
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Mist and The Phantom of the Fair
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Blackhawk and The Scarlet Ghost
• 1989
• Black Orchid (vol. 1)
• Swamp Thing: "Brothers" (in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days)
• Swamp Thing: "Shaggy God Stories" (in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days)
• 1990
• The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
• John Constantine, Hellblazer: "Hold Me" (in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days)
• 1992
• The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two
• Death: At Death's Door
• 1993
• The Absolute Sandman, Volume Three
• The Absolute Death
• 1994
• "Crone" (in WitchCraft)
• The Little Endless Storybook
• The Children's Crusade
• Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade  
• Black Orchid (vol. 2)
• 1995
• Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook
• 1996
• The Absolute Sandman, Volume Four
• The Starman Omnibus, Volume Two
• The Dreaming: Beyond the Shores of Night
• House of Secrets: Foundation
• House of Secrets Omnibus
• 1998
• The Dreaming: Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory
• "Going Inside" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• "On the Peninsula" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• 1999
• The Witching Hour
• 2000
• "Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D.R.E.A.M." (in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales)
• "The Further Adventures of Danny Nod, Heroic Library Assistant" (in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales)
• 2001
• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway
• "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams... But Were Afraid to Ask" (in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales)
• Lucifer: Children and Monsters
• Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned
• 2002
• Lucifer: The Divine Comedy
• "The Thessaliad" (in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales)
• Lucifer: Inferno
• The Sandman Presents: The Furies
• The Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives
• 2003
• Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence
• Lucifer: Exodus
• Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree
• Lucifer: Crux
• Lucifer: Morningstar
• Lucifer: Evensong
• "Death and Venice" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• "Fifteen Portraits of Despair" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• "Endless Nights" (in The Sandman: Endless Nights)
• 2004
• The Sandman Presents: Thessaly: Witch for Hire
• 2005
• The Dead Boy Detectives
• 2007
• Sandman Mystery Theatre: Sleep of Reason
• God Save the Queen
• 2009
• frame to Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
• 2011
• House of Mystery: Room & Bordeom
• House of Mystery: Love Stories for Dead People
• House of Mystery: The Space Between
• House of Mystery: The Beauty of Decay
• 2012
• House of Mystery: Under New Management
• House of Mystery: Safe As Houses
• House of Mystery: Conception
• House of Mystery: Desolation
• 2014
• Dead Boy Detectives, Volume 1: Schoolboy Terrors
• The Sandman: Overture: The Deluxe Edition
• Dead Boy Detectives, Volume 2: Ghost Snow