''Blood of the Innocent'' is a

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miniseries created by Rickey Shanklin,

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and Mark Wheatley which was published by

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in 1985.

About the series

''Blood of the Innocent'' was one of the first American comic books to be published weekly over four weeks. It was written by Rickey Shanklin and Mark Wheatley, and drawn by Marc Hempel and Mark Wheatley, who had previously created the acclaimed

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comic ''

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'' for

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. ''Blood of the Innocent'' was their first attempt at a horror comic. An epilogue for the miniseries appears in the first (and only) issue of ''WaRP Graphics Annual'', along with other short stories by authors and artists then being published by WaRP. The miniseries pitted Dracula against

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(who in this story is a

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) in Victorian

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.Breck Eisner Hoping to Direct ''The Blood of the Innocent''
/ref> It is a prequel to Bram Stoker's novel '' Dracula''.

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