Again, coinciding with First Second Books' Vampire Month, here's the next in our alphabet of comic book vampires!

This is one of the major ones!

Enjoy!

Morbius



Morbius showed up in Amazing Spider-Man #101, one of the first examples of the loosening of the Comics Code guidelines (this also led to the Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, etc.)

Michael Morbius was a scientist who tried to cure a disease he had with some old fashioned Curt Conners style experimenting, and the result was that he became LIKE a vampire (without actually becoming a vampire).

He soon gained his own feature in Adventures of Fear...



In the 1990s, Morbius became a lot more of an actual vampire in the pages of his ongoing series (which was a major part of the Midnight Sons line of comics at Marvel).



Honestly, I don't think nearly enough has been done with Morbius - the guy is really interesting, especially the way he has a lot of the same problems as vampires without TECHNICALLY being a vampire - and over the years, it seems writers have mostly tried to get AWAY from that uniqueness and make him more like a generic vampire.

I loved the way Roy Thomas and Gil Kane made him so distinct.

Recently, he showed up working for SHIELD against Blade - that was interesting, I'll admit.