(September 1975)
Marvel,
1975 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 76
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-07-22
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Printer
- Printed in the United States of America
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin (credited) (editor-in-chief); Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor); Don McGregor (credited) (consulting editor); Len Wein (credited) (consulting editor); Roy Thomas (credited) (editor emeritus)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #120.
Blade the Vampire-Slayer
Blade / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow (credited) (signed as
GRAY MORROW [lettering style]) (painting) - Inks
- Gray Morrow (credited) (signed as GRAY MORROW [lettering style]) (painting)
- Colors
- Gray Morrow (credited) (signed as GRAY MORROW [lettering style]) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks]; Safron Caulder; Kate Fraser
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (April 1981) [recolored, background modified] -
in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004) - in Marvel Milestones: Blade, Man-Thing & Satana (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005) [cover]
- in Tomb of Dracula 10 (New Line Cinema) (Marvel, 2005 series) (May 2005)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Blade: The Early Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023) [new trade dress]
-
[no title indexed]
Blade / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited as Eugene Colan)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (credited as Eugene Colan)
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (April 1981)
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017) [Blade figure only]
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
On the inside front cover.
Stan Lee Presents Blade the Vampire-Slayer
credits, title page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga (illustrations)
- Inks
- Tony DeZuniga (illustrations); Rico Rival (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Blade; Stephen Roak; Josie Harper (corpse); Anton Vierken
The Night Josie Harper Died! [Part 1]
Blade / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Inks
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Letters
- Dave Hunt ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They called her Mother of Empires once, the city that ruled the world...
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks]; Safron Caulder; Lady Marguerite D'Alescio; Detective Inspector Kate Fraser (first appearance); Chief Inspector Dai Thomas (first appearance); Anton Vierken; Arabella Morley; Stephen Roak (death); Mr. Roak; Josie Harper (corpse); Legion of the Damned
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (April 1981)
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Marvel Horror Lives Again! Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Blade: The Early Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
-
Trail of Blood, Trail of Tears [Part 2]
Blade / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga (credited)
- Inks
- Rico Rival (credited)
- Letters
- Karen Mantlo ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Funny how things change -- one moment, you're cock o' the walk, big man on campus...
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks] (also in flashback); Lady Marguerite D'Alescio; Detective Inspector Kate Fraser; Chief Inspector Dai Thomas (also in flashback); Anton Vierken (flashback); Josie Harper (corpse); Slow Boy; Jalya; Mickey; Thomas Lawson; Tony; Ponce (death); Legion of the Damned
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (April 1981)
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Marvel Horror Lives Again! Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Blade: The Early Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
-
Dawn of Blood [Part 3]
Blade / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Rico Rival (credited)
- Inks
- Rico Rival (credited)
- Letters
- Charlotte Jetter
- Job Number
- A-585
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back off, you lousy pieces of maggot-bait-- --'cause this is one night the legion goes hungry!!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Jamal Afari (flashback, death); Blade [Eric Brooks] (also origin in flashback)); Safron Caulder; Lady Marguerite D'Alescio; Detective Inspector Kate Fraser; Anton Vierken; Legion of the Damned
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #7 (May 1981)
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Marvel Horror Lives Again! Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Blade: The Early Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
-
Hellmorn! [Part 4]
Blade / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Rico Rival (credited)
- Inks
- Rico Rival (credited)
- Letters
- Marcos Pelayo ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's said that all the world's a stage and all who live are merely players...
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks] (also in flashback); Safron Caulder (also in flashback); Lady Marguerite D'Alescio; Dracula (cameo); Detective Inspector Kate Fraser; Anton Vierken; Ponce (flashback); Legion of the Damned
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #8 (June 1981)
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Marvel Horror Lives Again! Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Blade: The Early Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2023 series) (2023)
-
A Short Picto-History of Blade
Blade / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Scott Edelman (credited)
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (illustrations); Gene Colan (illustrations)
- Inks
- John Romita (illustrations); Jack Abel (illustrations); Tom Palmer (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Count Dracula, Lord of the Undead, wasn't the only blood-sucker that Blade faced.
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Blade [Eric Brooks]; Dracula; Frank Drake; Quincy Harker; Morbius [Michael Morbius]; Rachel Van Helsing
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Savage Action (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #6 (April 1981) [Reduced to one page]
- in Blade: Black & White (Marvel, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrated with several comic panels from Tomb of Dracula plus the cover of Fear #24.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Blade the Vampire-Slayer
Blade -
1.
[no title indexed]
Blade -
2.
Stan Lee Presents Blade the Vampire-Slayer
-
3.
The Night Josie Harper Died! [Part 1]
Blade -
4.
Trail of Blood, Trail of Tears [Part 2]
Blade -
5.
Dawn of Blood [Part 3]
Blade -
6.
["Take Us to Your Leader!"]
-
7.
Hellmorn! [Part 4]
Blade -
8.
A Short Picto-History of Blade
Blade -
9.
Next Issue:
Titan
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