 In James O'Barr's 1989 comic book "The Crow", the facial features of Eric Draven were based on those of Peter Murphy.In Neil Gaiman's series "The Sandman", Dream's face and appearance were also based on Murphy.Additionally, comic book writer Alan Moore wrote the sleeve notes of "Mask" and contributed an anonymous Bauhaus review called, "Phantoms of the Teenage Opera" to the UK music paper "Sounds".