The original series ran from 2010–2013 and lasted 34 issues. With the sixth issue, Scott Snyder took over as sole writer. The first five issues featured two stories-one by Snyder and the other by Stephen King, both drawn by Rafael Albuquerque. The complicated and charged relationship Jones has with Sweet is another focus of the series. Sweet saves her (uncharacteristically) by giving her his blood, thereby turning her into an American vampire like him, at which point she seeks revenge on the classic vampires who attacked her in life. The series goes on to track his movements through various decades of American history-along with the movements of his first and only known progeny: Pearl Jones, a young woman working as a struggling actress in the 1920s silent film industry when she is attacked by a coven of European vampires hiding in Hollywood. The first of this new species is a notorious outlaw named Skinner Sweet, who wakes from death, after being infected, to find he has become a new kind of vampire, something stronger and faster than what came before, impervious to sunlight, with a new set of strengths and weaknesses.

The focus of the series is a new American bloodline of vampires, born in the American West in the late 19th century. The series imagines vampires as a population made up of many different secret species, and charts moments of vampire evolution and inter-species conflict throughout history. American Vampire continued under the newly-created DC Black Label imprint after Vertigo was closed in January 2020. It was published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint. Also 13 issues in mini-series, one-shots, and anthologiesĪmerican Vampire is an American comic book series created by writer Scott Snyder and drawn by artist Rafael Albuquerque.

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