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Blade: The Early Years Omnibus
The origins and early adventures of the iconic vampire hunter Blade, the Daywalker
Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes that defied authority. He immediately changed the stakes of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan’s Tomb of Dracula, bringing a sense of unstoppable determination as he pursued Deacon Frost, the vampire that killed his mother. And if a few other vampires died along the way, all the better. This Omnibus collects, for the first time, Blade’s complete early adventures: From his influential role in Tomb of Dracula to his 1970s solo stories and on into to his 1983-84 battle against Dracula with Doctor Strange, and, as a new era of vampire hunting dawns in the 1991.
COLLECTING: TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #10, #12-14, #24, #30, #41-43, #45, #51, #53 & #58; MARVEL PREVIEW (1975) #3; FEAR (1970) #24; DOCTOR STRANGE (1974) #61-62 & 67; TOMB OF DRACULA (1991) #1-4 and material from TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #17-19, #21, #44, #46-50, #52; VAMPIRE TALES (1973) #8-9; MARVEL PREVIEW (1975) #8 and MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #64.
Blade hit the comics scene in the 1970s when horror movies were all the rage and Black cinema was introducing bold new action heroes that defied authority. He immediately changed the stakes of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan’s Tomb of Dracula, bringing a sense of unstoppable determination as he pursued Deacon Frost, the vampire that killed his mother. And if a few other vampires died along the way, all the better. This Omnibus collects, for the first time, Blade’s complete early adventures: From his influential role in Tomb of Dracula to his 1970s solo stories and on into to his 1983-84 battle against Dracula with Doctor Strange, and, as a new era of vampire hunting dawns in the 1991.
COLLECTING: TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #10, #12-14, #24, #30, #41-43, #45, #51, #53 & #58; MARVEL PREVIEW (1975) #3; FEAR (1970) #24; DOCTOR STRANGE (1974) #61-62 & 67; TOMB OF DRACULA (1991) #1-4 and material from TOMB OF DRACULA (1972) #17-19, #21, #44, #46-50, #52; VAMPIRE TALES (1973) #8-9; MARVEL PREVIEW (1975) #8 and MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) #64.
472 pages, Hardcover
Published November 14, 2023
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Marv Wolfman
2,312 books308 followersMarvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.
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July 18, 2025
Haben wir David S. Goyer den Blade (1998) zu verdanken? Die Origins-Geschichten sind ja schrecklich. In den 70ern war er eher ein Shaft-Verschnitt. Die Pflöcke waren nicht ausreichend; man musste sie zu Messern schnitzen, und Dracula ist ständig wieder auferstanden, weil Vampire nicht zerbröseln, sondern mit einem Messer im Herzen vergraben werden und irgendein Trottel es wieder herausgezogen hat. In den 90ern war er einfach ein Arsch. Und es gibt kein einziges Heft, das seinen Namen trägt. Er tritt eigentlich ständig nur in anderen Geschichten auf, hauptsächlich in "Tomb of Dracula" und "Vampire Tales". Also danke, Goyer, für die vielen Verbesserungen und dafür, dass du daraus eine anständige Figur gemacht hast.
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