TARA ALGREN

Real Name: Tara Algren

Identity/Class: Human vampire

Occupation: Predator; former reporter

Group Membership: None; former Midnight Sun staff member

Affiliations: Dracula, Bethany Flynn;
formerly Leonard Crowley

Enemies: Blade (Eric Brooks)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile with Dracula;
   formerly Midnight Sun office above the Laundry Coin House in New York City

First Appearance: Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#1 (July, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: Tara presumably possessed the standard abilities of a vampire including enhanced human strength and speed, the power to turn into mist, the need to consume human blood to survive and a weakness against religious icons, sunlight, garlic and a wooden stake through the heart.

Height: 5'8" (by approximation)
Weight: 140 lbs. (by approximation)
Eyes: Unknown (presumably brown)
Hair: Black (previously dyed blonde)

History:

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Tara was in a relationship with Bethany Flynn. They both worked for Leonard Crowley's supernatural magazine Midnight Sun.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Journalist Tara Algren tried to get in contact with Blade when he moved to New York City to interview him about the Nightstalkers, but she only got a hold of his landlady Julia Suarez when she called him at his new home. Blade decided to ignore her.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#1) - Tara traveled to Rhode Island and at night reached the location where Blade's partners Hannibal King and Frank Drake had died in an explosion. Tara thought to herself that next time Bethany could put a story for her paper herself. Trying to find evidence on what had killed ⅔'s of the Nightstalkers and found two fused shadows on a wall. Tara knew no bodies were ever discovered and was afraid whatever had happened here could mark the return of one of the greatest evil ever. When she noticed that somebody was behind her it was already too late for her when Dracula attacked her.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Tara called Bethany at the office to tell her she had the Nightstalkers story in the bag, but that it was bigger than they had figured. She invited Bethany to meet her at the Body Hammer club later to see who she was hanging out with.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2) - At night Bethany met with Tara at the Body Hammer club. Tara introduced Bethany to Dracula, who asked Bethany to join him for a drink...and she ended up being the drink.

   Tara and Bethany both kneeled next to Dracula when he welcomed Blade to the club. He told Blade neither of the women wanted to be saved and had surrendered themselves to him almost willingly. Blade then attacked Dracula.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#10) - Tara laid in front of Dracula's chair while they watched Blade defeat Postmortem. Though Dracula was angry that Postmortem had died without killing Blade, Tara reminded Dracula that it didn't matter because he already owned most of Project: Postmortem's secrets on a disc.

Comments: Created by Ian Edginton (writer), Doug Wheatley (pencils) & Chris Ivy (inks).

Just look at the image to the right! Two independent women turned into slaves by Dracula, wearing nothing more than skimpy clothes.

Profile by Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Tara Algren has no known connection to:

Leonard Crowley has no known connection to:

Bethany Flynn has no known connection to:

Leonard Crowley

Leonard Crowley was the owner of the supernatural Midnight Sun magazine. He was a heavy smoker and a total sleazeball. Bethany assumed Leonard hoped that some idiot interested in the occult was dumb enough to believe he was related to the late English occultist Aleister Crowley.

One afternoon Crowley, whom Bethany always called Crawley in a derogatory way, asked her where the article on the Nightstalkers was that Tara was supposed to turn in. Leonard didn't like how Bethany treated him, but she knew he had to because he had nobody else to run his magazine. When Bethany left to meet with Tara at the Body Hammer club Leonard asked her if they could turn this into a date, which she denied.

--Blade: The Vampire Hunter I#2

Bethany Flynn

Bethany presumably possessed the standard strengths and weaknesses a vampire.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Bethany was in a relationship with Tara Algren. They both worked for Leonard Crowley's supernatural magazine Midnight Sun, which was practically run by Bethany.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2) - When Bethany arrived at the office one afternoon she was immediately harassed by Leonard about the Nightstalkers story Tara was supposed to turn in. She greeted "Crawley" and made fun of his dream to be mistaken for a relative of Aleister Crowley and reminded him that he needed her to run his magazine because he had no clue how to do anything. After listening to a message from Tara on her answering machine about the Nightstalkers story she left the office again to put on different clothes for her meeting with Tara at the Body Hammer club. She denied Leonard's request to turn this into a date.

   Dressed up in a black dress Bethany met Tara at the Body Hammer club that night. Tara introduced Bethany to Dracula.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2 - BTS) - Dracula bit Bethany.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2) - Bethany and Tara kneeled next to Dracula when he welcomed Blade at the club. He told Blade neither of the women wanted to be saved and had surrendered themselves to him almost willingly. Blade then attacked Dracula.

(Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#10) - Bethany gave Dracula a shoulder rub while they watched Blade defeat Postmortem.

--Blade: The Vampire Hunter I#2 ([Blade: The Vampire Hunter I#1], [2 (fb)], 2, [2], 2, 10

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Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2, p17 (main)
Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#1, p22, pan2 (head shot)
Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#10, p20, pan3 (Bethany (back) & Tara (front) with Dracula)
Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2, p6, pan2 (Leonard Crowley)
Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2, p6, pan2 (Bethany Flynn, body shot)
Blade: The Vampire-Hunter I#2, p6, pan4 (Bethany Flynn, head shot)

Appearances:
Blade: The Vampire Hunter I#1-2 (July-August, 1994) - Ian Edginton (writer), Douglas Wheatley (pencils), Chris Ivy (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)
Blade: The Vampire Hunter I#10 (April, 1995) - Terry Kavanagh (writer), Douglas Wheatley (pencils), Steve Moncuse (inks), Chris Cooper (editor)

Last updated: 11/14/17

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