Fiends of the Eastern Front | |
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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: