To find out about the orign of Blade you have to go waaaaaayyyyy (to your time machines! Bring your tie-dies, bell bottoms, and smiley faces!) to TOMB OF DRACULA #10 in 1974.
(Blade's on the left Dracula's the one with the fangs!)Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire as Blade was being born - so he is immune to vampire bites and most supernatural powers. By the way - his mother died during the birth. So Blade determined to become a vampire hunter at an early age. (Lousey way to determine your career path if you ask me! Crummy hours - lousy pay.) Fortunately in the early 1980's Dr,. Stange with the help of Blade and his fellow vampire hunters banished Dracula and all vampires from the "Marvel Universe". This was a really cool story at the time - the BEST unhyped storyline at marvel in the early 1980's IMHO.
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Marv Wolfman and Gene Conlan return to comics to bring us "The Curse of Dracula"
for Dark Horse comics. If you don't know who Marv Wolfman and Gene Conlan are - back in your time machine my friend - these folks have been in comics VERY long time - maybe since before you were born!
Dark Horse also brings use "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"
Now in comic book form! (Can a cross over be far behind??? Hmmm.)
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First Godzilla, now vampires!!! What's next??? Can Swamp Thing
and Man-Thing
be far behind???
Later
Robert
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