Ed Brubaker's first Vertigo work was on the "Vertigo Visions" "Prez" one-shot (1995), and intermittent contributions to a couple of anthology titles preceded his "Scene of the Crime" (1999), effectively laying the groundwork for his later crime comics. His next Vertigo project, the post-apocalyptic series "Deadenders" (2000–01), ran for 16 issues while Brubaker wrote for both "Batman" and "Detective Comics" for parent-company DC. His 2001 miniseries "Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives" told the story of some incidental Sandman characters, and was later retold by Jill Thompson in manga form (2005). Brubaker subsequently took his Vertigo/crime sensibility to work from WildStorm, Icon and the mainstream DC and Marvel universes.