Blood of the Innocent

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Blood of the Innocent is a four‑issue horror comic from 1985 created by Rickey Shanklin, Marc Hempel, and Mark Wheatley, and published by WaRP Graphics. It was one of the first American comics published weekly over four weeks. The series was written by Shanklin and Wheatley and drawn by Hempel and Wheatley, who had previously created the science fiction comic Mars for First Comics. This was their first horror work. An epilogue to the miniseries appears in the first and only issue of WaRP Graphics Annual, along with other short stories by WaRP creators. The story pits Dracula against Jack the Ripper in Victorian London, with Jack the Ripper portrayed as a psychotic Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. It serves as a prequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula.