Fiends of the Eastern Front

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Fiends of the Eastern Front was a 2000 AD comic strip, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Carlos Ezquerra. The series mixed vampires into the general horror of the Eastern front. The characters also appeared in other series with Judge Dredd and Durham Red when sinister vampiric figures were needed.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 2.1 German 2.2 Russian 2.3 The Romanian Vampyr 3 Bibliography 3.1 Comics 3.2 Novels 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Plot

A diary found with an unearthed skeleton casts new light on a lost piece of history from World War II. It belongs to a young German soldier who was stationed on the Eastern Front who fought alongside a group of Romanian soldiers who always fight at night. Their true nature is soon revealed and when they change sides all Hell breaks loose.

[edit] Characters

[edit] German

• Hans Schmitt - Protagonist
• Karl Mueller - Han's friend

[edit] Russian

• The Rabbi - An unnamed rabbi who performs the ritual
• The Golem - Created by the Rabbi to destroy Costanza and his Vampyr

[edit] The Romanian Vampyr

• Hauptmann Costanza - Vampire leader
• Corporal Gorgo - Costanza's chief Lieutenant
• The Blood Pack - Hauptmann's vampire followers
• Corporal Cringu - Costanza's loyal thrall

[edit] Bibliography

They have appeared in their own series (the original run being released as a graphic novel by Rebellion in June 2006 and a new series starting to coincide with this) as well as cropping up elsewhere and now feature in a series of novels.

[edit] Comics

• Fiends of the Eastern Front:
  • "Fiends of the Eastern Front" (with Gerry Finley-Day and Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD ~152-161, 1980 ISBN 1-904265-64-2)
  • "Stalingrad" (with David Bishop and Colin MacNeil, in Judge Dredd Megazine #245-ongoing, 2006)
• Judge Dredd: "Helter Skelter" (with Garth Ennis; Carlos Ezquerra (1-7, 10-12) and Henry Flint (8-9), in 2000 AD #1250-1261, 2001)
• The Scarlet Apocrypha: "Red Menace" (with Dan Abnett and Carlos Ezquerra, in Judge Dredd Megazine #4.17, 2002)

[edit] Novels

Black Flame are releasing a series of novels based on the series all written by David Bishop:

• Fiends of the Eastern Front:
  • Fiends of the Eastern Front (672 pages, February 2007, ISBN 1-84416-455-1) collects:
    • Operation Vampyr (December 2005 ISBN 1-84416-274-5)
    • The Blood Red Army (April 2006,, ISBN 1-84416-325-3)
    • Twilight of the Dead (August 2006, ISBN 1-84416-384-9)
  • Fiends of the Rising Sun (July 2007, ISBN 1-84416-494-2)

The upcoming novel Fiends of the Rising Sun deals with the same premise but with vampire samurai in the Pacific War.

[edit] See also

• American Gothic, another 2000 AD story which features vampires

Other things that mix horror with the World Wars and/or feature undead Nazis include:

• The Keep
• The Bloody Red Baron
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• The Wolf's Hour
• Shock Waves
• Oasis of the Zombies
• Zombie Lake
• Deathwatch
• Hellsing
• The Bunker

[edit] External links

• 2000 AD page
• Review of the trade paperback