The team of vampire-hunters Blade and Frank Drake and vampiric private detective Hannibal King first reunited in Ghost Rider (vol.

It incorporated story threads from previous Marvel Comics supernatural series, primarily The Tomb of Dracula (April 1972–August 1979) where the three protagonists had first appeared.

The series' initial creative team was writer D. G. Chichester, penciller Ron Garney and inker Tom Palmer, reprising his role from The Tomb of Dracula.

These include Lilith, Mother of All Demons;[4] HYDRA's Department of Occult Armaments (DOA), led by Lt. Belial, and its renegade Dracula clone Bloodstorm;[5] and the one-time Lord of Vampires, Varnae.

[6] In the final arc (#16–18, Feb.-April 1994), King's house, including Borderline's office, is destroyed by a HYDRA Dreadnought stealing Drake's anti-occult nanotech gun, the Exorcist.

In a final battle, Varnae, a previous Lord of Vampires who had already returned, takes psychic control of King and directs him to kill his comrades.

Avengers Emergency Response Squad members She-Hulk, Lightspeed, Lightning, and Wonder Man arrive to save the vampires from the Nightstalkers.