Blade: Black & White TPB [Paperback]

Chris Claremont (Author), Marv Wolfman (Author), Tony DeZuniga (Author), Gene Colan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 8, 2004 | Series: Blade

A war is raging, and he has a job to do; for Blade the Vampire Hunter, there are no shades of gray! Now, for the first time ever, the House of Ideas reprints the best of Blade in bold black and white from its legendary '70s-era horror magazines - including Vampire Tales and Marvel Preview! Collecting material from Vampire Tales #8-9, Marvel Preview #3 and #6, Blade: Crescent City Blues #1, and Marvel Shadows and Light #1.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (December 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785114696
• ISBN-13: 978-0785114697
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,336,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hey, at least the art is good!, February 21, 2005

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Babytoxie (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blade: Black & White TPB (Paperback)

I certainly don't feel that BLADE: BLACK AND WHITE is a must-have, as it costs the same as a Marvel Essential with only 1/4 of the page count. It's just a handful of random stories from throughout Blade's vampire-hunting career, unnecessarily reprinted on glossy paper. It's a nice supplement, however, for all the fans who have been going crazy over Marvel's thorough reprinting of Tomb of Dracula in the Essential format.

This book collects black and white material from VAMPIRE TALES #8-9, MARVEL PREVIEW #3 and #6, BLADE: CRESCENT CITY BLUES #1, and MARVEL SHADOWS AND LIGHT #1. For the most part, the stories are general Marvel horror fare: flimsy plots with lead characters who babble incessantly while fighting legions of the undead (and even remarking to themselves that they do it!). The Crescent City Blues story does improve on this a bit, even taking a dig at those earlier stories, but even this one runs low on steam towards the end. But still, as with any Marvel horror comic, the real star is the art, and BLADE: BLACK AND WHITE has impressive art galore: Tony deZuniga's textured fine-line, Jose Ladronn's weird Kirby/Giffen amalgam, and of course, the ultimate Dracula artist Gene Colan, who provides his always beautiful art for two stories, plus the cover. The work of Gene Colan is always worth the price of admission, but I'd say that this book is for TOD fans only.

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing early tales of Blade, July 28, 2010

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Christopher Mcgrail "DCcomicsfan" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blade: Black & White TPB (Paperback)

I must strongly disagree with the other two reviews, as I found this book an excellent collection of some of the best Blade stories. The first 3 comics in the collection tells an awesome tale of Blade fighting the Legion, a vampiric cult centered in London. The art and storytelling is spellbinding and the B & W printing on glossy paper only adds to the aesthetic. I actually prefer the old school portrayal of Blade to the over-the-top Wesley Snipes version, and this collection shows him in his glory days.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wooden Blade, March 19, 2009

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Jeremy Benoit "geek demi-god" (Houma, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blade: Black & White TPB (Paperback)

Blade: Black and White is a compilation of early appearances of you guessed it: Blade. We is a globetrodder, who is quiet the lemon (thats a 70's joke see Wikipedia). Ok, sorry thats like this is an opinion. I think that the movie version of Blade is allot more interesting than the source material. I hear that efforts have been made to make Blade more appealing in the pages of Captain Britain and MI13, but I digress. The artwork is beautiful, but the action and storytelling is wooden. It is cheaper than buying a new comic at $3.99, Hence 3 out of 5 for art and economy.