Nightstalkers (comics)

Nightstalkers
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Ghost Rider vol. 3, #28 (Aug. 1992)
In-story information
Base(s)	Manhattan
Member(s)	Blade Frank Drake Hannibal King

Nightstalkers is a comic book published by Marvel Comics from 1992 to 1994, featuring a trio of occult experts reluctantly banded together to fight supernatural threats. Operating under the business name Borderline Investigations, the team was composed of the vampire-hunters Blade and Frank Drake, who had fought Count Dracula in the 1970s series The Tomb of Dracula; and private detective Hannibal King, also introduced in that previous series, a "neo-vampire" with vampiric abilities but only a craving, not a need, for drinking blood. They are gathered by Doctor Strange in Nightstalkers #1 (Nov. 1992) to battle an immediate threat, but under Strange's larger, hidden agenda.

The team of vampire-hunters Blade and Frank Drake and vampiric private detective Hannibal King first gathered in Ghost Rider vol. 3, #28 (cover dated Aug. 1992). They subsequently starred in their own series, Nightstalkers, which ran 18 issues (Nov. 1992 – April 1994). It incorporated story threads from previous Marvel Comics supernatural series, primarily The Tomb of Dracula (April 1972 – Aug. 1979) where the three protagonists had first appeared.

The series' initial creative team was writer D. G. Chichester, penciller Ron Garney and inker Tom Palmer, reprising his role from The Tomb of Dracula. After 11 issues, Steven Grant took over scripting, with Frank Lovece wrapping up the fates of some of the 1970s series' characters in the last three issues. Artists included Mark Pacella, Kirk Van Wormer and Andrew Wildman.

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