Crossover Cover: Hack/Slash/Eva: Monster's Ball

Cassie Hack and Vlad team up with Eva, Daughter of the Dragon, and the vigilantes known as the Ghosts of Old Detroit to rescue Eva’s companion Michael from Doctor Praetorius and Mary Shelley Lovecraft. A Gill-Man can be seen among the slashers whose corpses have been collected by Praetorius and Lovecraft. Eva is allegedly the daughter of Dracula, though more likely “Dracula” is a “soul-clone” of the original Vlad Tepes. Similarly, although Michael is identified as Victor Frankenstein’s monster, the significant difference in personality between the original monster and Michael suggests the latter was actually created by another member of the Frankenstein family. Dr. Praetorius (or Pretorius) is from the film Bride of Frankenstein. It is unknown whether this Gill-Man is the same one that appears in The Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequels.

Crossover Cover: Vampirella Halloween Special 2013

Vampirella, Dracula, and Eva join forces to battle a coven of witches seeking to resurrect an Elder God. Eva learned about the witches’ plans via a prophecy in a copy of the Necronomicon. The Dracula seen here is a “soul-clone” of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and has encountered Vampi many times before. Eva, Daughter of Dracula, has previously encountered the likes of Ash Williams, the Darkness, and slasher hunters Cassie Hack and Vlad. Vampi, Eva, and Dracula first joined forces in the miniseries Prophecy. In both stories, Dracula denied being Eva’s father. Most likely, she was fathered by a different soul-clone than Vampi’s old foe. The Necronomicon, written by Abdul Alhazred, recurs throughout the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

Crossover Covers: Prophecy

This miniseries from Dynamite Entertainment involves Red Sonja being transported through time to the year 2012, where she fights her old foe Kulan Gath alongside Dracula, Vampirella, Pantha, Dr. Herbert West, Eva (daughter of Dracula), Athena (the Greek goddess), and Ash Williams. A series of flashbacks to 1890 features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Allan Quatermain, and Dorian Gray, who possesses the same dagger wielded by Gath. As Sonja is thrown forward and backward through time, images of a number of other characters are seen, including Indiana Jones, the Three Musketeers, Quasimodo, and the Phantom. There are a number of other characters seen in these sequences that don't fit into CU continuity: Dynamite's version of the Green Hornet, which doesn't fit with the NOW Comics stories of the '80s and '90s; the company's take on Flash Gordon, which has a very different version of Flash's origin story; the Lone Ranger appearing alongside Zorro, a reference to the Dynamite miniseries The Lone Ranger: The Death of Zorro, which contradicts the circumstances of the latter hero's death in the movie The Mask of Zorro; the characters of Project Superpowers, a series featuring a number of Golden Age superheroes brought into the present day; and Evil Ernie, whose stories take place in a world devastated by nuclear war. I have chosen to interpret these as cross-promotional cameos and disregard them for the purposes of the CU.

Crossover Covers: Hell on Earth

In this storyline, the Parliament of Demons seeks to give Dracula the power belonging to the god Chaos. The Parliament allows Dracula to use its forces to attack Earth. In response to this, the Conjuress sends her agents, including Vampirella and Pantha, to battle Dracula and company. For the most part, I have followed Win's example by only listing a few stories where Vampirella meets Dracula, since there have been several over the years. However, there is another crossover in this story. One of the Parliament's agents is a vampire named Orlok. Based on his name and physical appearance, he is clearly Graf Orlok from F.W. Murnau's silent horror film Nosferatu, which was loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Obviously, Orlok must have been resurrected after his death at the hands of Eva in the miniseries The Darkness vs. Eva: Daughter of Dracula. Eva first appeared in "Ash vs. the Monsters," a storyline from the Army of Darkness comic book that also featured her father. However, in both the miniseries Prophecy and Vampirella Halloween Special 2013, she meets the same version of Dracula that Vampi regularly battles, and he apparently doesn't recognize her. Presumably, the Dracula that appeared in "Ash vs. the Monsters" is a different "soul-clone" of the real Dracula than Vampi's foe.

Crossover Covers: Hack/Slash Part 2

Besides the characters shown yesterday, slasher hunters Cassie Hack and Vlad have also met:

Mercy Sparx, a demon created by Josh Blaylock, who has been recruited by Heaven to track down rogue angels....

The depraved supervillain Bomb Queen, whose alternate reality Cassie traveled to from the CU (and who traveled to the CU herself in the storyline "Interdimensional Women's Prison Breakout")...

Eva, Daughter of Dracula...

The ghostly slasher Victor Crowley, from the Hatchet film series...

And in the coda to Cassie and Vlad's saga, Ash Williams from the Evil Dead films and the comic book Army of Darkness.

This series wracked up an impressive number of crossovers in its years of publications. As a bonus, here's a one page unofficial comic by creator Tim Seeley in which Cassie and Vlad meet two other master killers: Dexter Morgan (from the television series Dexter) and Jason Voorhees (from the Friday the 13th movies.) I'm probably not going to include this in the book, but it's still pretty cool, particularly as I'm a Dexter fan.