BLOODSTORM

Real Name: Bloodstorm One

Identity/Class: Human vampire clone

Occupation: Pawn of Varnae

Group Membership: Bloodcoven (Cruel, Damascene, Megrim, Smoke Eater, Unusual)

Affiliations: Taj Nital, the Structure, Varnae

Enemies: Avengers (Black Panther/T'Challa, Captain America/Sam Wilson, Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers, Iron Man/Tony Stark, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff, Thor/Odinson, Vision), Bloodline (Brielle Brooks), Dracula (Vlad Tepes), Hydra (D.O.A., Lt. Gregory Belial, many unidentified agents), a Dreadnought, Fists of Khonshu (undead army), Moon Knight (Marc Spector), Nightstalkers (Blade, Frank Drake, Hannibal King)

Known Relatives: D.O.A. (creators), Dracula (genetic progenitor)

Aliases: Dracula (see comments)

Base of Operations: Temple of the First Blasphemy in Central Park, New York City, New York;
   formerly the Impossible City;
   formerly a New England Hydra base

First Appearance: (DNA sample) Nightstalkers#6 (April, 1993); (fully grown) Nighstalkers#16 (February, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: Bloodstorm One is now nearly as tall as he was in the past, which increased his strength exponentially. He wears an armor to hide his monstrous appearance.

He previously had the standard powers and weaknesses of a vampire although he never used most of his supernatural powers on Varnae's order. Because he was created from Dracula's DNA and due to Varnae's control over him he knew instinctively everything about fighting and how to use the various technologies he found in Hydra's base. Varnae's control over him turned Bloodstorm into nothing more than a weapon.

Height: Unrevealed (12'; (original form) 6'5"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (460 lbs.; (original form) 220 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black

History:
(Nightstalkers#9, 11 - both BTS) - On Belial's search for a vampire DNA sample he found Suze Harlow, a girl once bitten by Dracula himself. Together with D.O.A.'s main operatives he retrieved the corpse despite the resistance of Suze's father Jeb Harlow.

(Nightstalkers#16 - BTS) - Before Bloodstorm's birth Varnae telepathically gave him orders by using Dracula's son Janus.

(Nightstalkers#16) - Bloodstorm was ready to be born from his tube and Belial ordered to slowly drain the fluid from the tube, but suddenly Bloodstorm broke the glass and destroyed the Dreadnought, which had stolen the Exorcist gun from the Nightstalkers. Belial and his agents tried to tranquilize Bloodstorm, but he was too strong. He killed Belial and was ready to follow the hypnotic orders given to him by Varnae.

(Nightstalkers#16 - BTS) - Bloodstorm slaughtered everyone in sight.



(Nightstalkers#17) - Hydra agents attempted to stop Bloodstorm. He tossed Belial's lifeless body at them, took the Exorcist gun and another gun and killed them. After nobody was standing in his way anymore he stole a skycycle and headed to the new location his master Varnae wanted him to go.

(Nightstalkers#18) - Bloodstorm arrived in Boston and landed on a rooftop across from the Nightstalker's destroyed HQ. He didn't find what he came for and flew away with his jet-pack. He was watched by Hannibal King, Frank Drake and Salomé and all followed him. Bloodstorm arrived in Varnae's hideout with the Exorcist gun, the only human weapon that could've possibly harmed Varnae. Salomé angered Varnae with by offering him a deal and the vampire sent Bloodstorm against her, but Bloodstorm was no match for Salomé and was stopped with a single magical blast. King and Drake entered the hideout next and Varnae got so distracted that his control over Bloodstorm weakened and the vampire began to think for himself for a moment. Without Varnae's control he attacked King with the Exorcist gun, but he missed and lost the gun when King hit him. Seconds later King and Blade overpowered him and Blade drive a stake through Bloodstorm's chest. Bloodstorm survived because Blade missed his heart, but seemingly died in an explosion caused by Frank Drake, who overloaded his Exorcist gun.

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#1-3, Blade: Vampire Hunter I#10, OHotMU Marvel Knights 2005, OHotMU Horror 2005 - all BTS) - Hannibal King and Frank Drake merged in the explosion with Bloodstorm and they became a new monstrous Dracula. After a few encounters with Blade and members of Varnae's Bad Seed the monster met its final fate when Blade and his alternate future version Crossbow worked together to free Drake and King from this fused being. They succeeded, but the soul of the true Dracula took possession of the body which marked the return of the true Dracula.

SECRET WARS III HAPPENED

BTS - He got better and larger. (see comments)

(Blood Hunt#1 (fb) - BTS) - Blade, possessed by Varnae (officially revealed in #4), put together a team of superpowered vampires, including Bloodstorm One, that could rival the Avengers. Varnae became the leader of the worldwide vampire cult known as Structure and used an Atlantean ritual to explode Darkforce users to block out the sun and cause an unending night on Earth.

(Blood Hunt#1) - Blade (Varnae) tricked the Avengers to teleport the truck with the Bloodcoven inside to the Impossible City. As soon as they arrived in the Impossible City Bloodstorm One, the leader of the Bloodcoven, told the Avengers that Blade couldn't make it and ordered his team to attack the Avengers. Bloodstorm One manhandled Black Panther (T'Challa) and Captain America (Wilson), whom Bloodstorm One planned to deliver to Blade so he could be turned into a vampire and become their symbol to crush' humanity's hope. The Avengers were defeated, but Black Panther activated the Impossible City's emergency evacuation to get Captain America to safety. As punishment for costing him Captain America, Bloodstorm One punched Black Panther through the abdomen. The Impossible City teleported Captain America, Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Vision back to Earth while Black Panther, Thor and Scarlet Witch were captured by the Bloodcoven.

(Blood Hunt#2) - Bloodstorm One and his Bloodcoven were ordered to find Bloodline (Brielle Brooks) by the possessed Blade and were teleported to Earth by the Impossible City. They found her allied with Dracula in New York City. Dracula recognized his clone and ordered him to kneel, but Bloodstorm One told him that he was serving the true lord of vampires and not him. The Avengers (Captain America, Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Vision) interrupted the Bloodcoven's attempt to kidnap Brielle. Bloodstorm One ordered Megrim to incapacitate the Avengers, but Vision destroyed her by flying her above the Darkforce blocking the sun and exposing her to deadly sunlight. Captain Marvel hit Bloodstorm One as hard as she could...

(Blood Hunt: Red Band#2) - ...and he lost his mask and revealed to her that Blade had become the vessel he was meant to be to bring the unending night to Earth.

(Blood Hunt#2) - Vision returned from above the Darkforce and released solar energy to weaken the Bloodcoven further. Captain Marvel tossed Bloodstorm One at Smoke Eater and then blasted a hole into the Darkforce cloud to shroud the Avengers in sunlight. Bloodstorm One and his team were teleported back to the Impossible City.

(Blood Hunt#3) - Scarlet Witch mocked Blade when the Bloodcoven returned with one less member to the Impossible City.

   Blade (Varnae) lost his cool when Captain America (Wilson) delivered an inspirational speech to the people of Earth and ordered Black Panther to have the Impossible City teleport the Temple of the First Blasphemy to Central Park. The Bloodcoven joined Blade for the next part of his plan.

(Blood Hunt#4) - Blade (Varnae) teleported with Black Panther, the Bloodcoven and their prisoners to the Temple of the First Blasphemy in Central Park. Bloodstorm One carried Scarlet Witch through the portal into the temple and later handed a bowl filled with Thor's blood to Varnae so he could finish the ritual to become one with the Darkforce dimension. Bloodstorm One and his team witnessed Varnae's final transformation, but Black Panther turned on Varnae, freed Thor and then the rest of the Avengers arrived.

(Blood Hunt#5) - Bloodstorm One participated in the final battle against the Avengers in Central Park. He tried to take revenge on the traitor Black Panther, but got kicked in the face by Captain America. Bloodstorm One changed opponents, ripped out Vision's left arm, but Vision became immaterial and Bloodstorm's next hit went right through him. Moon Knight (Spector) came to Vision's aid against Bloodstorm, but Vision's solar cells were too drained to burn Bloodstorm. Bloodstorm took out a few of the undead Fists of Khonshu and watched as Moon Knight got caught by Cruel. Bloodstorm threatened to force the Avengers to watch Varnae's victory before they drank their blood. The situation went bad for the Bloodcoven when Bloodline and Spider-Man (Morales) stabbed Varnae through the chest and as soon as his concentration was broken Doctor Doom and the students from Strange Academy countered the Atlantean Darkforce ritual Varnae had used to block out the sun. The Bloodcoven fled as soon as their master was exorcised from Blade's body and trapped by the Scarlet Witch.

Comments: Created by Frank Lovece, Bill Wylie & Frank Turner.

If I understand the Handbooks correctly Bloodstorm was part of the composite Dracula consisting of himself, Frank Drake and Hannibal King. Since this Dracula was taken over by the soul of the true Dracula he became his own "father" because the DNA used to create Bloodstorm was from Dracula. Read Dracula's profile to learn more about his adventures since taking over this body.

Laraz on the new design of Bloodstorm One: "I gave him a lot of thought because I didn't want to do a vampire super hero, but a true monster, who is scary enough that he's even scared of himself. He hides his true nature under a perfect human shell, like some kind of Michelangelo's David which is rotten inside, twisted, homicidal. The worst monster of all is the one who wants to look as the perfect human. The armor is an homage to Vlad Tepes' armor from Coppola's Dracula film, which seemed to me like a proper reference."

It is unknown how Bloodstorm One regained a body, considering his body was taken over by Dracula's spirit, but considering this revelation was from the handbooks, it was probably just missed and I am cool with it. Bloodstorm is back, has a scary new look and is now massive compared to his original appearance.

Blood Hunt: Red Band#1-5 was a version of Blood Hunt#1-5 with more explicit content. It included additional pages and panels with more gore, but also a few additional scenes. Outside of the Red Band version we never saw Bloodstorm's face without a mask (aside from the sketches in #1). There is also a comment that alluded to Blade being possessed in an exclusive page far earlier than in the regular version of the series, though it was clear to many fans pretty early on as soon as Blade started talking about Atlantis.

Profile by Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Bloodstorm has no known connection to:

Suze and Jeb Harlow have no known connection to:

Jeb Harlow

(Nightstalkers#11 (fb) - BTS) - Jeb began to drink the day he found his daughter Suze dead in the cornfield.

(Nightstalkers#9) - Jeb felt that somebody would come to take his dead daughter and began to guard her grave with a loaded shotgun.

(Nightstalkers#11) - Jeb still sat at his daughter's grave and drank. He dropped his bottle when he heard a plane arrive. He knew that these people were coming for his girl and tried to shoot them, but he only hit Belial's raven Edgar. Rotwrap sent some of her bugs after Jeb and Innards blinded him with stomach acid. Then D.O.A. took Suze's corpse and Jeb crawled back to his daughter's grave and seemingly died.

--Nightstalkers#9 (Nightstalkers#11 (fb) - BTS, #9, #11

Suze Harlow

(Nighstalkers#11 (fb)) - Suze Harlow was bitten by Dracula.

(Nighstalkers#11) - Belial and his D.O.A. operatives found Suze's grave and stole her body to get a vampire DNA sample from her neck wound for the creation of D.O.A.'s first vampire stormtrooper.

--Nightstalkers#11 (Nightstalkers#11 (fb), #11

 

images: (without ads)
Blood Hunt#1, p17, pan4 (main)
Nightstalkers#18, p19, pan8 (head shot)
Nightstalkers#17, p6, pan1 (turning on Hydra)
Blood Hunt#2, p10, pan3 (head shot, new design)
Blood Hunt: Red Band#2, p14, pan2 (head shot without mask)
Blood Hunt#1, p31 (sketches, new design)
Nightstalkers#11, p19, pan13 (Jeb Harlow)
Nightstalkers#11, p23, upper right corner (Suze Harlow)

Appearances:
Nightstalkers#6 (April, 1993) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Ron Garney (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Hildy Mesnik (editor)
Nightstalkers#11 (September, 1993) - D.G. Chichester (writer), Kirk Van Wormer (pencils), Bill Anderson (inks), Hildy Mesnik (editor)
Nighstalkers#16 (February, 1994) - Frank Lovece (writer), Bill Wylie (pencils), Frank Turner (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Nightstalkers#17 (March, 1994) - Frank Lovece (writer), Ed Murr (pencils), Frank Turner (inks), Chris Cooper & Bobbie Chase (editors)
Nightstalkers#18 (April, 1994) - Frank Lovece (writer), Doug Wheatley (pencils), Frank Turner (inks), Chris Cooper & Bobbie Chase (editors)
Blood Hunt#1-2 (July, 2024) - Jed MacKay (writer), Pepe Larraz (artist), Marte Garcia (colorist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Blood Hunt#3-4 (August, 2024) - Jed MacKay (writer), Pepe Larraz (artist), Marte Garcia (colorist), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Blood Hunt#5 (September, 2024) - Jed MacKay (writer), Pepe Larraz (artist), Marte Garcia & Fer Sifuentes-Sujo (colorists), Tom Brevoort (editor)

First Posted: 11/17/2006
Last updated: 09/28/2024

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