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or Will The Real Blade Please Stand Up<\/em>? Because when all\u2019s said and done, we\u2019ve always preferred the original seventies comic book Blade to the revised, enhanced version of the late nineties and the films. And maybe because Blade is actually British, which has been rather forgotten in the slew of Marvel re-imaginings over the last twenty years…<\/p>\n

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So yes, in one of our last entries for Black Vampire Week<\/em>, we can state firmly that Blade the Vampire Killer (or Slayer, or Hunter) was born Eric Brooks in Soho, London, England, and raised as a Londoner. Honest.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t find that out immediately in the comics. Created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan, Blade\u2019s first appearance was in the comic book The Tomb of Dracula<\/em> #10 (1973), an all-action issue which had little time for flashbacks. And to be fair, they messed with his origins a few times even back in the seventies, though they never went as far as to make him Wesley Snipes and give him an American origin \u2013 that came much, much later.<\/p>\n

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In the original Tomb of Dracula<\/em> comics, in early guest appearances and in Marvel Preview #3<\/em> (1975), Blade\u2019s mother was bitten during the last stages of a difficult pregnancy, and Blade was the child delivered before she died. Who bit her was never stabilised \u2013 there were stories with an unnamed vampire, then a specific vampire, Deacon Frost (who would enter the main Blade mytho-verse), and even occasionally Dracula. Writers often played a bit fast and loose in those days.<\/p>\n

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The result was reasonably consistent, though. Blade is simply a human who, because of the events surrounding his birth, cannot be turned by a vampire\u2019s bite. Having been raised in a brothel (with suggestions that his mother had been one of the prostitutes there) and told of what happened, he grows up mad as hell, with a serious chip on his shoulder. Which seems reasonable.<\/p>\n

Tomb of Dracula<\/em> presents him as a guy with a grudge, ready to kill any bloodsucker. Wolfman and Colan, however talented, could not come up with much in the way of an English accent, though, and so Blade talks more like Detroit than Soho a lot of the time. Throughout those early appearances, everyone else speaks in polite or cod-English, with some bizarre language from and about the London police especially \u2013 the \u2018fuzzies\u2019 appear and say things like \u201chaul your black butt inta the wagon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Depictions of Britain itself vary between seventies modern, unlikely castles and faux-Dickens slums, but you do have vampiric English teen thugs, wicked nobility, and an annoyed New Scotland Yard. There\u2019s no mistaking the London-centred nature of it all.<\/p>\n

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But he\u2019s great. No huge swords or techno-weapons, no mutant talents \u2013 just a guy in coloured goggles and a green or purple jacket, with an afro and a bandolier of wooden knives \u2013 variously teak, ebony or mahogany. Very physically fit and very determined, with nothing else about him but the attitude, he manages to slay even Dracula (temporarily, of course). A real hero, with a touch of anti-hero loner about him.<\/p>\n

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Tomb of Dracula<\/em> #30 and Marvel Preview<\/em> #3 provide more detailed background material. We learn of Blade being brought up by the other women in the brothel, and exposed to vampire hunting through encounters with a man called Jamal Afari, an old jazz trumpeter, who fought vampires with silver but who was later turned. Blade hangs out at Slow-Boy\u2019s, a London jazz club, was taught to play the horn, and so forth. We also learn that back in 1968, he was in China with other human vampire hunters, all Black, called Ogun, Azu, Musenda and Orji. Dracula is supposed to have killed all of them except Musenda (we believe) eventually, but it was there that Blade learned the value of using wooden knives, before returning to London.<\/p>\n

(Marvel Preview<\/em> #3 follows on from Vampire Tales<\/em> #8 and #9 (1974) and is well worth picking up). The original Blade in full action against the Legion of the Damned.<\/p>\n

As time passes in the seventies, Blade loses the afro, which is a shame, and grows a chin-beard, but still goes out there with his trademark jacket, goggles and bandolier of knives. It\u2019s a great portrayal of an angry man. He\u2019s no teenager \u2013 origin dates vary, but he\u2019s at least in his mid-thirties, possibly much older \u2013 and he doesn\u2019t take kindly to anyone interfering in his work. Other vampire hunters floating around Britain, such as Quincy Harker and Rachel van Helsing, do not find him easy to work with.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know you just killed a teenager, Blade?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s Mister Blade, Harker \u2013 and, frankly, I don\u2019t give a flying hoot! He was a stinkin\u2019 vampire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

BLADE: THE RETREAD VERSION<\/h2>\n

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But this is Comicsworld, and they couldn\u2019t leave it alone. By the late 1990s, Blade becomes American (from Detroit, rather than only talking like that), and then\u2026 he turns into Wesley Snipes. Who gives us Blade as a dhampir (see later below), a human with vampire strengths but not their weaknesses, with the background timeshift that the attack on Blade\u2019s mother happened in1967; doctors were able to save the baby, but the woman died of an unknown infection.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t like the films, or even some of the later comics, but yeah, we really want the afroed, knife-throwing British Black Bad Boy of the seventies, when Wesley was a mere teenager, and everyone could dig the cat who knew where it was at, the man you didn\u2019t mess with…<\/p>\n

Blade the Vampire Killer.<\/p>\n

DHAMPIRS ALIVE<\/h2>\n

As an addendum, the folklore side: Blade has been described as dhampir, the child of a union between a vampire and a human. Quite how this applies in this case is uncertain, as rather than him being the unlikely offspring of two genetic strains, the comics seem to suggest that some unknown factor was passed from the bitten mother to the child, presumably through the placenta.<\/p>\n

Nor, as we\u2019ve said, do they use the dhampir angle in the comics at first (he is eventually bitten by Morbius the Living Vampire and gains quite a few directly vampiric\/dhampiric characteristics).<\/p>\n

Dhampir, a word of Albanian origin, had its own variable place in Slav folklore, and we can do no better than to direct you to Andy Paciorek of the Folk Horror revival, who wrote an entire book on Eastern European myths which we covered a while ago. In his Black Earth: A Field Guide to the Slavic Otherworld<\/em>, he says:<\/p>\n

In East European lore it is not uncommon for dead husbands to visit their still living wives. Sometimes they will feed on the vitality of their spouse, but sometimes they will still follow other matrimonial desires. It was believed, particularly amongst gypsies, that should a male child be born of the union between a widow and her revenant husband (or sometimes lover if out of wedlock) then the baby boy will grow up to be a being known as a Dhampir. Known sometimes as the ‘Devil’s Partner’, Dhampires are actually a force against evil, though their power demands both fear and respect. Dhampires assume the role of Vampire-hunters and are well equipped for the position for it is said that they possess great speed, strength and agility and the ability to see invisible spirits anti recognise vampires at sight.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s more in the actual book, which you can get through the link below (it’s also heavily illustrated by Andy):<\/p>\n

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As we close down Black Vampire Week<\/em>, don’t forget that SLAY, full of some fantastic authors,\u00a0 is due out on 13th October, and available to pre-order now:<\/p>\n

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SLAY on Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n

SLAy on Amazon US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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