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_________________________ From the Mouths of the Marvels:
"You had a minor vampire infestation. I did you a favor." -- Blade, to Maria Hill, Blade #4 _________________________
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Blade #1-6
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Blade: Undead Again TPB Reprints: Blade #1-6
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About This Book:
Join Howard Chaykin (AVENGERS, American Flagg) and Marc Guggenheim (WOLVERINE, CSI: Miami) for a new series starring the popular character who's launched three movies and a TV series. Featuring Spider-Man, Dracula, Dr. Doom, Wolverine...and Santa Claus!? Plus: a look into Blade's mysterious past!
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Writer: Marc Guggenheim
BLADE #1: "Splinter Group" Blade takes out Dracula in a public school in New York City, and he also has to work his way through Spider-Man who has been temporarily cast in the vampire's thrall. A SHIELD detail arrives and disappears with the body. Blade tracks the body to a Helicarrier full of vampires. In the process of destroying the whole carrier, he is promised by one of the vampires that there are more of them in even higher places than SHIELD. Flashback: During her birthing process, Blade's mother is killed by Dracula. He is raised in the brothel his mother was staying in by a surrogate mother.
BLADE #2: "Bargains in Time" Blade is summoned to Latveria and is informed by Doom that, in the past, he rescued his mother in a fight with vampires while Doom was still in her womb. Doom informs Blade that he is going to be sent back in time to fulfill his role in her rescue. Angry at being manipulated by Doom, he sets out to find his mother in order to murder her. Along the way, he releases a political prisoner named Lucas Cross from his jail cell. He eventually finds Doom's mother, who is holding her own against the vampires, but soon it's determined that if the pair do not work together, they will both die; Blade reluctantly helps her escape. Back in modern Latveria, Doom hands Blade a serum that will cure him both of his need for blood and his bloodlust for hunting vampires. He doesn't take it....but he doesn't destroy it, either.
BLADE #3: "The Accused" Blade meets a girl from the internet for a blind date, but it turns out she's a vampire trolling for fresh blood and he slays her in the back alley of the restaurant. Later, the NYPD arrests him for her murder and interrogate him. Blade gets legal counsel who turns up security tapes that, naturally, don't depict either Blade or the vampire he killed, but the police still keep him on suspicion of multiple robberies and disappearances to which they've linked him. During a transfer to prison, he is able to escape from the prison bus. Flashback: Young Eric accidentally kills a human after mistaking him for a vampire, short-circuiting his education in vampire hunting and forcing him to head to America for a life on the run.
BLADE #4: "Morton's Fork" As Lucas Cross continues to translate an ancient poem that connects him to his son, Blade is on the run in Bethlehem, PA, laying low. In a mall, he bumps into a soul-jumping demon named Animus who jumps from a department store Santa to a little girl. He starts killing his host bodies, which forces Blade to kill him. Flashback: Blade meets Cyrus Cutter of the Bloodshadows, who gives him sanctuary in America. Eventually, he kills Cutter for beating his girlfriend.
BLADE #5: "Vendetta's Echo" Wolverine escapes from SHIELD custody while Blade is facing Morbius in Long Beach, CA. Morbius had been sent to draw Blade out of hiding on behalf of SHIELD, who sends a team of agents in to capture him. Maria Hill offers Blade full immunity for his past crimes committed while vampire hunting, as well as authorization for future hunting with SHIELD resources to back him up if he'll bring in Wolverine. Blade agrees, and stakes out Wolverine at his Brooklyn apartment. In the course of the throwdown with Wolverine, Blade realizes that he is in debt to opponent, as years previously, Wolverine had saved his life when he was attacked by a vampire. He stands down in his fight against Wolverine and tells Maria Hill that he cannot fulfill the mission.
BLADE #6: "Two Chambers" Blade has been kidnapped by Lucas Cross and thrown in a prison cell. Lucas introduces himself as Blade's father and shares the history of Blade's mother. He tells Blade of the prophecy that links the two together, and that Blade must fulfill his end by drinking "virginal blood". He places a young girl inside the cell with Blade and leaves them behind. Rather than kill the girl, Blade knaws his hand off and frees himself from his chains, and when Lucas later returns, he pushes his way past Cross and escapes with the girl. Once free, he decides to get to the bottom of the mystery of Lucas Cross. -- synopsis by Gormuu
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