BLADE (2023)

Marvel's slickest vampire hunter returns in a brand new ongoing by Bryan Hill (KILLMONGER) and Elena Casagrande (BLACK WIDOW)! True evil is patient. And a dark, ancient power has been simmering quietly for centuries…and when Blade himself is the one to unknowingly unleash it, Marvel's entire supernatural underworld will come out of hiding to demand he handle it. Or pay a pound of flesh for his mistakes. Bloodbaths, blackmail and Blade - you won't want to miss the explosive first issue of this new volume!

Blade's greatest hope rests with the last person he wants to ask - a hostile ex! Blade travels to Japan to meet with a high-end supernatural arms dealer who may be the key to defeating the Adana, the deadly threat Blade has inadvertently unleashed upon the world! But first he'll have to protect the arms dealer from the underground that wants her head.

BLADE POSSESSED?! In exchange for a weapon that can destroy the Adana, Blade must get his arms-dealing ex-girlfriend out of a bloody situation with some literal headhunters. But no good deed goes unpunished when he finds himself under the control of her captor! Meanwhile, the pulse of the Adana's power ripples across the Marvel Universe - drawing a familiar friend of Blade's into the fray.

DOCTOR STRANGE JOINS BLADE ON A HIGH-SPEED HEIST! Blade must break into the armored fortress of a weapons collector to steal a sword of unknown power - the key to defeating the Adana. But the fortress isn't just heavily armored. It's mobile. Doctor Strange guest-stars in this action-packed heist that gives new meaning to the term "bullet train"!

BLADE VS. THE ADANA, ROUND ONE - FIGHT! Blade has been warned over and over of the Adana's indescribable, overwhelming power. But now armed with a secret weapon, it's time for Blade to send her back to the Hell she crawled out of!

ENTER...DRACULA! Until Blade became Sheriff of Vampire Nation, Dracula was his sworn enemy. Now Dracula is the only who can teach Blade what he still needs to learn about himself...and how to unlock new powers of vampirism Blade didn't even know he possessed! Rated T+

BLADE TEAMS UP WITH THE HULK TO TAME THE ANGER WITHIN! In preparation to face the Adana once more, Blade must confront the monster he is afraid he is…and who knows better what it's like to live with a monstrous version of yourself than Bruce Banner?

BLADE JOURNEYS TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD! With the power he has mastered with help from Dracula and Hulk, Blade must now gather knowledge about the Adana by going deep into the heart of enemy territory…

BLADE LEADS HIS DEAD ARMY! After expanding his dark powers with Dracula and the Hulk, and then traveling into the depths of the underworld to learn more about the Adana, Blade is finally prepared to lead a charge against her. Now, as a Master of Darkness himself, Blade builds an army of undead monsters from the underworld to rise against the Adana's own supernatural armies… …by luring them into a trap, with Blade himself as the bait!

BLADE VS. THE ADANA, ROUND TWO: FATALITY? The Adana already ruthlessly defeated Blade once. But after honing new vampiric powers and gathering an army of the dead, Blade is ready for a rematch. At stake? The fate of every soul on Earth!