Crossover Cover: Spike: Asylum

Spike is hired by the half-demon Ruby Monahan’s family to track her down. He discovers that she is imprisoned inside the Mosaic Wellness Center, which has been designed to “cure” demonic beings. The Center was built by Ivo Shandor, who later went mad and decided humanity didn’t deserve to live. Shandor is the occultist who designed Dana Barrett’s apartment building in Ghostbusters; his descent into madness is referenced in that film.

Crossover Cover: Spike: Old Wounds

In this one-shot comic, Spike and the Angel Investigations crew battle a Kandarian predator-demon, a reference to the Kandarian demons from the Evil Dead films.

Crossover Covers: Spike vs. Dracula

This miniseries explains the bad blood (no pun intended) between Spike and Dracula alluded to in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Buffy vs. Dracula." The first issue, set in 1898, has Spike killing a girl at the Slaughtered Lamb pub (from the movie An American Werewolf in London) in order to turn the customers against Dracula. In the final issue, set in 2003, Spike boasts that Dracula may have fought Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, King Arthur, and Zorro, but in Spike he's met his match. Dracula has encountered Frankenstein and the Wolf Man in several movies, books, stories, and comics. He met King Arthur and Zorro separately in two comic miniseries.