Fiends of the Eastern Front | |
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![]() Cover of Fiends of the Eastern Front (2005), hardcover collected edition, art by Carlos Ezquerra | |
Created by | Gerry Finley-Day Carlos Ezquerra |
Publication information | |
Publisher | IPC Rebellion Developments |
Schedule | Weekly Monthly |
Title(s) | 2000 AD #152-161 Judge Dredd Megazine #245-252 |
Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine . |
Genre | |
Publication date | February–April 1980 May–December 2006 |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Gerry Finley-Day David Bishop |
Artist(s) | Carlos Ezquerra Colin MacNeil |
Letterer(s) | Jack Potter Colin MacNeil Ellie de Ville |
Editor(s) | Steve MacManus Matt Smith |
Reprints | |
Collected editions | |
Fiends of the Eastern Front | ISBN 1-904265-64-2 |
Fiends of the Eastern Front was a story published in the British comics anthology 2000 AD , created by Gerry Finley-Day and Carlos Ezquerra. The series mixed vampires into the general horror of the Eastern front.
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 alongside a group of Romanian soldiers who always fought at night. Their true nature is soon revealed and when they change sides all Hell breaks loose.
The Germans were:
The Russians were:
The Vampires were:
They have appeared in their own series (the original run being released as a single volume by Rebellion Developments 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.
Black Flame released a series of novels based on the series, all written by David Bishop:
The first three books were collected in one volume, Fiends of the Eastern Front (672 pages, February 2007, ISBN 1-84416-455-1)
The novel Fiends of the Rising Sun deals with the same premise but with vampire samurai in the Pacific War.
Other items that mix horror with the World Wars and/or feature undead Nazis include:
Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977), which is a British weekly anthology comic. He is the magazine's longest-running character, and in 1990 he got his own title, the Judge Dredd Megazine. He also appears in a number of film and video game adaptations.
2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. Since 2000 it has been published by Rebellion Developments.
Judge Cassandra Anderson is a fictional law enforcer and psychic appearing in the British science fiction comics 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. Created by writer John Wagner and artist Brian Bolland, Anderson made her debut as a supporting character in the Judge Dredd story "Judge Death". The character's popularity with readers led to her starring in her own series, Anderson: Psi-Division, which has been written almost exclusively by Alan Grant, often working with artist Arthur Ranson until 2005; Boo Cook drew a majority of the stories until 2012, since which a number of different artists have worked on the strip. In 2012, the character appeared in the film Dredd, played by Olivia Thirlby.
John Wagner is an American-born British comics writer. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. He is the co-creator, with artist Carlos Ezquerra, of the character Judge Dredd.
Strontium Dog is a long-running British comics series starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter who lives in Earth's future. The series was created in 1978 by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra for Starlord, a short-lived weekly science fiction comic. When Starlord was cancelled, the series transferred to the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD. In 1980, Wagner was joined by co-writer Alan Grant, although scripts were normally credited to Grant alone. Grant wrote the series by himself from 1988 to 1990. Wagner revived the series after a ten-year hiatus in 2000. After Ezquerra's death in October 2018, the series was put in indefinite hiatus with no current plans for its continuation.
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Matt Brooker, whose work most often appears under the pseudonym D'Israeli, is a British comic artist, colorist, writer and letterer. Other pseudonyms he uses include "Molly Eyre" for his writing, and "Harry V. Derci"/"Digital Derci" for his lettering work.
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