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American Vampire Book One: DC Compact Comics Edition

by Scott Snyder

A vampire myth moving through American history

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A vampire myth moving through American history

Scott Snyder’s American Vampire recasts the vampire through Skinner Sweet, a gunslinger transformed in the Old West into a sunlight-immune figure set against the aristocratic vampires of Europe. The collected issues trace this conflict across several American eras, from the 1880s frontier to classic Hollywood and 1930s Las Vegas. Pearl Jones, a struggling movie star whom Skinner chooses to turn, brings another strand into the story, while a mysterious society emerges to oppose both sides. This compact edition collects issues #1–11, framing the series around the clash between an old-world vampire tradition and a distinctly American one.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in horror comics and vampire stories rooted in historical settings.
  • Readers who enjoy graphic novels spanning multiple periods of American history.
  • Readers looking for a collected edition of American Vampire issues #1–11.

Themes

Vampire mythologyOld World and New WorldAmerican historyPower and transformation

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Book overview

Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DC's bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size!

Chronicling the history of a new breed of vampire, AMERICAN VAMPIRE by the legendary Scott Snyder and Stephen King is a fresh look at an old monster--a generational epic showcasing the bloodlust that lay hidden beneath America's most distinctive eras.


Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet is a thoroughly corrupt gunslinger. When European vampires come to the American Old West, they turn Skinner into a true monster: the very first American vampire.

Skinner becomes something entirely new--a stronger breed of vampire immune to sunlight, who hates every last one of his aristocratic European ancestors.

Follow this dark symbol of the New World's bloody path as he moves through American history's most distinctive eras--from the Wild West in the 1880s to the glamorous classic Hollywood of the 1920s to mobster-run Las Vegas in the 1930s, and beyond.

But as Skinner's war with his predecessors inspires a mysterious society to rise and fight them both, his most upsetting decision might involve the first person he chooses to join his vampiric ranks: a struggling young movie star named Pearl Jones.

Collects American Vampire #1-11.
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