Jed Walker

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.

Neil Gaiman's revisionist version of "The Sandman" showed the somewhat Cinderella-like tyranny of Jed's guardians as genuine abusive behaviour. 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.