The character featured in British comic stories published in the weekly anthology Eagle from 9 June 1984 to 30 March 1985, written by John Wagner and Alan Grant and drawn by Jim Baikie, Carlos Cruz González and Vanyo.

[4] The first 12-part storyline, published 9 June to 25 August 1984, was illustrated by Jim Baikie, who had recently worked with Alan Moore on "Skizz" in IPC's 2000 AD.

[1] Like many IPC stories, "Bloodfang" was sold for overseas publication, and was printed by Aventures & Voyages in French as part of the anthology Akim in 1988, renamed "Croc-Rouge".

[1] In 1998, the rights to the strips created for Eagle – including "Bloodfang" – were purchased from Egmont Publishing by the Dan Dare Corporation.

However, when other dinosaurs (four sauroctoni) try to steal his meal from him, Bloodfang cunningly bides his time until they have gorged themselves, and then attacks them when they are vulnerable, killing two and driving the others away.

Over the next four years he grows to become six metres tall and weigh ten tonnes, by which time he has learned to be a ferocious fighter, stronger than most adults of his species.