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Issue Details

Issue #10
Published August 1993
Cover Price 2.25 USD; 2.85 CAD
Pages 40
Editing Hildy Mesnik (Editor); Bobbie Chase (Group Editor); Tom DeFalco (Editor in Chief)
Notes All black cover like all Midnight Massacre crossover covers.

Cover Details

Genre Superhero; Occult
Notes All black cover like all Midnight Massacre crossover covers.

1 page Nightstalkers illustration

Characters Blade; Hannibal King
Synopsis Blade attacking Hannibal King.
Genre Superhero; Occult
Pencils Kirk Van Wormer
Notes This would have been the cover if they hadn't decided to use black covers for each issue of the Midnight Massacre's crossover.
Reprinted in Nightstalkers (Marvel, 1992 series) #9 (July 1993) [interior, stamp-sized]

22 page Nightstalkers story "Midnight Massacre Part One: Blood in the Water"

Characters Nightstalkers [Blade; Hannibal King (death); Frank Drake]; Samantha Regent; John Blaze (death); Richard Regent; Maxxy; Jack; The Other; "Linda Blair" (Frank Drake's gun); Ghost Rider [Dan Ketch]; Switchblade (Blade transformed)
Synopsis Blade is determined to get to the Darkhold page that will enable him to destroy everything supernatural. He attacks Samantha Regent (and hospital employees) and demands to know where the letter is but she won't tell him. Finally he begs Samantha to tell him where it is. She then tells him that Maxxy has it. Hannibal, Frank and John Blaze know what Blade is trying to do and attempt to stop him. They reach him and "Linda" destroys the letter but not before Blade has read the page. He accepts the Other's offer of the opportunity to revenge himself against everything unnatural. He is then turned into Switchblade, a being capable of absorbing the magical abilities of everyone that he destroys. He kills Hannibal King and John Blaze and sets off to kill everyone else that is magical. Ghost Rider shows up and vows vengeance for the death of John Blaze.
Genre Superhero; Occult
Script D.G. Chichester
Pencils Kirk Van Wormer
Inks Mark Badger
Colors John Kalisz
Letters John Costanza
Notes The story continues in Ghost Rider (Marvel, 1990 series) #40 (August 1993).

1 page Nightstalkers illustration

Characters Blade [as Switchblade]
Genre Superhero; Occult
Pencils Ron Garney
Inks Tom Palmer