Collects Hellblazer (DC, 1988 series) #68-71; Vertigo Jam (DC, 1993 series) #1 and Hellblazer Special (DC, 1993 series) #1.
This issue is a variant of John Constantine Hellblazer: Tainted Love (DC, 1998 series) .
There exist further variants:
John Constantine (also in flashaback); Killy (first appearance); the Weasel (first appearance); Sue (first appearance); Andy (first appearance); Kernahan (first appearance); the King of the Vampires; Darius (first appearance); Stuart (first appearance): Mary (first appearance); Davy (first appearance); Chas Chandler [Frank William Chandler] (flashback); Kit Ryan (flashback); Billy (first appearance, death)
John Constantine; the King of the Vampires (dies, also in flashback); William Constantine (first appearance, dies in flashback); Ken Wilson (first appearance, dies in flashback); Davy (dies); Darius; Mary
Synopsis
The King of the Vampires watches John Constantine while he sleeps and remembers when he tasted his first Constantine, John's grandfather, William, in 1916. The King of the Vampires offers Constantine the choice to become a vampire, but he rejects it. After explaining his existential reasons, the vampire thrusts his fangs into John's neck, but what he doesn't know is Constantine has demon's blood in his veins. The vampire suffers from the demon's poison, convulses on the ground, and eventually explodes in flames by the light of dawn.