10 Best Vampires In Comics

5. Fiends Of The Eastern Front

Blade Vampires
2000 AD

This military horror comic strip ran over a number of issues in 1980, within the pages of British sci-fi anthology 2000AD. Written by Gerry Finley-Day and illustrated by the late, great Judge Dredd co-creator Carlos Ezquerra, Fiends of the Eastern Front pits hapless German World War II soldiers against a battalion of Romanian vampires. War is hell enough - now there are vampires to contend with too.

Fiends of the Western Front is a defining work of military horror and one of the magazine's best non-Dredd strips. Through the eyes of German soldier Hans Schmitt, Ezquerra sells both the grim misery of war and the gothic horror of his shadowy, cloaked vampires.

The strip only ran for a few issues, but it proved popular enough to inspire a number of spinoffs and sequels (plus a brief cameo in Judge Dredd's Helter Skelter). The original remains the best though - a chilling introduction to one of 2000AD's most memorable villains.

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A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.