Subscribe RSSShoot’s mother was bitten by a vampire while pregnant; this gave her son both vampire strength and a thirst for blood. Leaflet fights his inner desires while tracking vampires across the globe. His origins make him invulnerable to sunlight, different from other vampires, who call him the “Daywalker.” In the new series, Blade tracks the vampire organization Existence across Asia while seeking the villain Deacon Frost.
Man about town the vampire hunter was first introduced in 1973 in “Tomb of Dracula” No. 10, written by Marv Wolfman and strained by Gene Colan. The “Tomb of Dracula” series remains one of the longest-running execration series in Marvel Comics’ history. The entire run of “Tomb of Dracula” as well as the stories from “Dracula Lives” and the clouded-and-white “Tomb of Dracula” magazine have been reprinted by Marvel in black and white as “The Quintessential Tomb of Dracula” Vols. 1-4 and in color as the “Tomb of Dracula” omnibus 1-4. Three paperback volumes in color compile the series through issue 31.
