Vampirella

Vampirella initially appeared in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969), running to issue #112 (March 1983),[https://www.comics.org/series/1916/ Vampirella (Warren, 1969 Series)] at the Grand Comics Database. plus a 1972 annual reprinting stories from the series,[https://www.comics.org/series/2068/ Vampirella Annual (Warren, 1972)] at the Grand Comics Database. and a 1977 special with color reprints of José González stories.[https://www.comics.org/issue/272791/ Vampirella Special #1 (Warren, 1977)] at the Grand Comics Database. The title was a sister magazine of Warren's horror anthologies Creepy and Eerie. Like those magazines' respective mascots, Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie, Vampirella hosted horror stories, though unlike them, she would also star in her own story, which would headline each issue. Vampirella was initially edited by Bill Parente. It was later edited by Archie Goodwin (issues #7–12, 34–35), Billy Graham (#13–16), Bill DuBay (#21–50, 87–95, 101–102) and Louise Jones (#51–86).

According to comics historian Richard J. Arndt, "Forrest Ackerman created, or at least had a strong hand in creating, Vampirella and he clearly had a major influence in shaping the lighthearted bad-girl story style of this issue as well." Her costume and hair style were designed by comics artist Trina Robbins. The character's first story artist was Tom Sutton. Artist Frank Frazetta's first-issue cover was a substitute for the original cover by European artist Aslan.{{cite web | last = Arndt | first = Richard J. | url = http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Warren%20Magazines%20Index%20Only.htm | title = The Warren Magazines | date = September 22, 2008 | access-date = January 27, 2013 | archive-date = March 14, 2012 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120314204512/http://www.enjolrasworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Warren%20Magazines%20Index%20Only.htm }} Additional [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717230137/http://www.vogworld.com/Richard%20Arndt/The%20Warren%20Magazines.htm Webcitation archive].

José González became the character's primary artist starting with issue #12. Other artists who drew Vampirella during her magazine's original run included Gonzalo Mayo, Leopold Sanchez, Esteban Maroto, José Ortiz, Escolano, Rudy Nebres, Ramon Torrents, Pablo Marcos, Jim Janes, John Lakey, Val Lakey, and Louis Small Jr.

Backup features appearing in Vampirella included "Tomb of the Gods", "Pantha" and "Fleur". Vampirella herself also appeared in a story with fellow Warren characters Pantha and the Rook in Eerie #94–95, and with most of the Warren characters in a company crossover special in Eerie #130.

Upon Warren's bankruptcy shortly afterward, Harris Publications acquired the company assets at auction in August 1983, although legal murkiness and a 1999 lawsuit by Warren publisher James Warren resulted in his reacquisition of the rights to sister publications Creepy and Eerie.{{cite news|author-link=Tom Spurgeon|last=Spurgeon| first=Tom|title=News Watch: Warren Case Moves Forward: Publisher Claims Numerous Violations in Case Against Harris Publications|work=The Comics Journal|issue=210|date=February 1999|pages= 11–13}}{{cite news|title=News Watch: Jim Warren Sues Harris Publications|work=The Comics Journal|issue=211|date=April 1999|page= 8}} Harris Comics published Vampirella stories in various series and miniseries from 1991 to 2007, beginning with Vampirella #113 (1988), a one-issue continuation of the original series, containing Vampirella reprints and one unrelated new story.[https://www.comics.org/issue/628824/ Vampirella #113 (Harris Comics, 1988)] at the Grand Comics Database. Harris subsequently published the all-reprint one-shot Vampirella vs. the Cult of Chaos,[https://www.comics.org/issue/768440/ Vampirella vs. the Cult of Chaos] at the Grand Comics Database. and the four-issue miniseries Vampirella: Morning in America (Sept. 1991 - April 1992) by writer Kurt Busiek and penciler Louis La Chance.[https://www.comics.org/series/14100/ Vampirella: Morning in America] at the Grand Comics Database. Three ongoing series followed:

• Vampirella #1–5, followed by #0 (Nov. 1992 – Dec. 1994), primarily by plotter Busiek, scriptwriter Tom Sniegoski, and penciler Louis Small Jr.;[https://www.comics.org/series/12530/ Vampirella (Harris Comics, 1992 Series)] at the Grand Comics Database.
• Vengeance of Vampirella #1–25 (April 1994 – April 1996) by writer Sniegoski and artist Aldrin Aw (under the pseudonym Buzz), and later pencilers including Kirk Van Wormer, Kevin Sharpe, David Perrin, Chris Batista, and Amanda Conner.[https://www.comics.org/series/12774/ Vengeance of Vampirella] at the Grand Comics Database.
• Vampirella Strikes #1–7 (Oct. 1995 – Oct. 1996) by writers Sniegoski, David Quinn, Mark Millar, and Ian Edginton, and pencilers including Ed McGuinness, Karl Moline, and Rudy Nebres.[https://www.comics.org/series/11163/ Vampirella Strikes] at the Grand Comics Database.

The three-issue miniseries Vampirella Lives (Dec. 1996 – Feb. 1997) featured writer Warren Ellis and penciler Conner.[https://www.comics.org/series/17970/ Vampirella Lives] at the Grand Comics Database.

Additionally, Harris published several one-shots: Vampirella Summer Nights (title per its trademarked cover logo) / Vampirella's Summer Nights (as in the indicia's copyright information) (1992), by writer Steve Englehart and penciler Joe Brozowski (under the pseudonym J. J. Birch),[https://www.comics.org/issue/740846/ Vampirella's Summer Nights] at the Grand Comics Database. Vampirella/Shadowhawk: Creatures of the Night (Feb. 1995),[https://www.comics.org/issue/56566/ Vampirella/Shadowhawk: Creatures of the Night] at the Grand Comics Database. Vampirella Pin-Up Special (Oct. 1995),[https://www.comics.org/issue/327750/ 'Vampirella Pin-Up Special] at the Grand Comics Database. and Vengeance of Vampirella: The Mystery Walk (Nov. 1995).[https://www.comics.org/series/14102/ Vengeance of Vampirella: The Mystery Walk] at the Grand Comics Database.

Harris also published many reprints. The 1993 trade-paperback collection Vampirella: The Dracula War reprinted a serialized story from Harris' Vampirella #1–4.[https://www.comics.org/issue/386450/ Vampirella: The Dracula War] at the Grand Comics Database.[http://www.vampilore.co.uk/harris/draculawar.html Vampirella: The Dracula War] at Vampilore.co.uk]. The 1994 Cain / Vampirella Flip Book reprinted a 1993 Vampirella story by writer Busiek and artist Arthur Adams from Harris' Creepy 1993 Fearbook.[https://www.comics.org/issue/763165/ Cain / Vampirella Flip Book] at the Grand Comics Database.[https://www.comics.org/issue/290952/#460302 "Bugs" in the Creepy 1993 Fearbook] at the Grand Comics Database. The five-issue Vampirella Classic (Feb.–Nov. 1995) reprinted Warren stories.[https://www.comics.org/series/10942/ Vampirella Classic] at the Grand Comics Database. Vengeance of Vampirella: Bloodshed (March 1995) reprinted a serialized story from the Vengeance of Vampirella series.[https://www.comics.org/issue/246932/ Vengeance of Vampirella: Bloodshed] at the Grand Comics Database.

The publisher additionally reprinted Warren stories in the trade paperback Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space (1992),[https://www.comics.org/issue/765122/ Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space] at the Grand Comics Database.White, Robin. [http://www.vampilore.co.uk/harris/transcendingtime.html Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space] at Vampilore.co.uk]. Vampirella: A Scarlet Thirst (1993),[https://www.comics.org/issue/132044/ Vampirella: A Scarlet Thirst] at the Grand Comics Database. and Vampirella & The Blood Red Queen of Hearts (1996);[https://www.comics.org/issue/906688/ Vampirella & The Blood Red Queen of Hearts] at the Grand Comics Database. and the series Vampirella of Drakulon #1–5, followed by #0 (Jan.–Nov. 1996).[https://www.comics.org/series/11089/ Vampirella of Drakulon] at the Grand Comics Database.

At the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in January 2007, Scott Licina, editor-in-chief of Fangoria Comics, announced his company had acquired the character from Harris.{{Cite web|url=http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=97094 |publisher=Newsarama.com |date=January 11, 2007 |title=Updated: Fangoria Comics Acquires Vampirella |first=Matt |last=Brady |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602035201/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=97094 |archive-date=June 2, 2007 }} However, on April 30, 2007, Harris editor Bon Alimagno denied there had been such an arrangement in place and that Fangoria's claim was "not factual".{{Cite web|url=http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=110839 |publisher=Newsarama.com |date=April 30, 2007 |title=Bon Alimagno on Vampirella Quarterly |first=Chris |last=Arrant |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502024656/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=110839 |archive-date=May 2, 2007 }} Harris subsequently launched the title Vampirella Quarterly.

On March 17, 2010, Dynamite Entertainment acquired the rights to Vampirella from Harris Comics.{{Cite web | url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25274: | title=Dynamite Entertainment Acquires Vampirella | date=March 17, 2010 | work=Comic Book Resources}} The publisher started a new ongoing series with Vampirella #1, in November 2010. A new monthly series, Vampirella and the Scarlet Legion, was released in May 2011 following the main title.{{cite web|url=http://www.comicvine.com/news/vampirella-the-scarlet-legion-coming-in-may/142805/ |title=Vampirella and the Scarlet Legion coming in May|publisher= Comicvine.com|date= 2011-02-09}} The series lasted 38 issues before concluding in January 2014.

The title was rebooted in June 2014 with Vampirella vol. 2, #1 by author Nancy Collins. The 2014 series continued with Volume 3 in March 2016, which was noted for giving Vampirella a new costume.{{cite news|url=http://www.newsarama.com/26160-red-sonja-vampirella-dejah-thoris-to-relaunch-and-get-redesigned-in-2016.html|title=Vampirella to get redesigned and relaunched|publisher=Newsarama.com|date=2015-10-05}}

A second reboot and fourth relaunch overall, Vampirella vol. 4, began in 2017. The series was first written by Paul Cornell, and later by Jeremy Whitley.{{cite web|url= http://comicsalliance.com/vampirella-paul-cornell-jimmy-broxton/|title=Vampirella rises again in 2017|publisher=ComicsAlliance.com|date=October 4, 2016}}

A fifth relaunch, written by Christopher Priest and Ergun Gündüz, began publication in July 2019 and commemorated the character's 50th anniversary.[https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-Vampirella_Vol_5 Dynamite® Vampirella Vol. 5.html][https://web.archive.org/web/20210915205757/https://www.comixology.com/Vampirella-2019-0/digital-comic/791581?ref=c2VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9ncmlkTGlzdC9Jc3N1ZXM Vampirella (2019-) #0]. ComiXology. The run lasted 25 issues long and ended with Vampirella's marriage to Dracula.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-17|title=Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy! limited series announced by Dynamite|url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2021/09/vampirella-dracula-unholy-limited-series-dynamite/|access-date=2021-09-18|website=Flickering Myth|language=en-US}} fifth relaunch returned on February 2024{{Cite web |last=Destito |first=Deanna |date=2024-01-18 |title=Syndicated Comics |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-preview-vampirella-666-debuts-on-valentines-day/ |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}} bring it up to 34 has the last issue of the fifth relaunch comes out in January 2025.{{Cite web |last=Comments |first=Rich Johnston {{!}} |date=2024-10-15 |title=Vampirella #675 by Priest & Aaron Felizmenio Sets Its Sights On #700 |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/vampirella-675-by-priest-aaron-felizmenio-sets-its-sights-on-700/ |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}}

In 2019, Dynamite also revived the series Vengeance of Vampirella, which had been the name of a Harris-era comic, and hired the original writer of that series, Thomas Sniegoski, to write a continuation of the original series for her 50th anniversary.{{Cite web |url=https://comic-watch.com/comic-book-reviews/vengeance-of-vampirella-1-long-live-vampirella |title=Vengeance of Vampirella #1: Long Live Vampirella! |date=6 October 2019}}

Dynamite has published several other series and one shots fearing Vampirella, including but not limited to Die!namite (2020),{{Cite web |date=10 November 2020 |title=Comic Book Preview - Die!namite #2 |url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/11/comic-book-preview-dienamite-2/}} Vampirella vs Purgatori (2020),{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2020-12-30 |title='Vampirella Versus Purgatori' Comic Set for March |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/vampirella-versus-purgatori-comic-set-for-march-4110219/ |access-date=2021-09-19 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} Vampiverse (2021), Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy! (2021), The Vamp (2022), Vampirella: Mindwarp (2022), Vampirella vs. Superpowers (2022), and Vampirella: Year One (2022) .{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2022-04-19 |title=Christopher Priest Writes Vampirella: Year One for Dynamite |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/christopher-priest-writes-vampirella-year-one-for-dynamite/ |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en}}

In celebration of the character's 55th anniversary, Dynamite announced it would renumber the book starting with issue 666, counting runs and one shots throughout Vampirella's history, with the first new arc "Beyond" written by Christopher Priest,{{Cite web |last=News |first=First Comics |date=2023-10-11 |title=Vampirella Starts Her Sixth Decade With #666! |url=https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/vampirella-starts-her-sixth-decade-with-666/ |access-date=2023-10-15 |language=en-US}} who has been writing Vampirella since 2019 and is the longest writer in the character's history{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2024-10-15 |title=Vampirella #675 by Priest & Aaron Felizmenio Sets Its Sights On #700 |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/vampirella-675-by-priest-aaron-felizmenio-sets-its-sights-on-700/ |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}} This brought Volume 5 to an end with 34 issues and the legacy renumbering ending with issue 675.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2024-10-15 |title=Vampirella #675 by Priest & Aaron Felizmenio Sets Its Sights On #700 |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/vampirella-675-by-priest-aaron-felizmenio-sets-its-sights-on-700/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}}

A sixth relaunch will begin in March 2025,{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2024-12-12 |title=Dynamite Relaunches Vampirella #1 by Christopher Priest & Ergün Gündüz |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-relaunches-vampirella-1-christopher-priest-ergun-gunduz/ |access-date=2025-01-05 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}} and will begin with a new issue #1 (legacy number 676).{{Cite web |title=Dynamite - The Official Site {{!}} The Powerpuff Girls Valentine's Mwah Mwah Kissy Face Special, Thundercats Vol. 2: Roar Hardcover, Thundercats Vol. 2: Roar Trade Paperback, The Boys and More! |url=https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/pressrelshow.html?display=88126816-9ed9-ef11-80c4-b083fed06a4f |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=www.dynamite.com}}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2024-12-12 |title=Dynamite Relaunches Vampirella #1 by Christopher Priest & Ergün Gündüz |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-relaunches-vampirella-1-christopher-priest-ergun-gunduz/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}}

On March 2, 2021, Mike The Pike Productions, Inc.'s subsidiary Arowana Media Holdings, Inc. acquired the worldwide film, television and streaming rights to Dynamite Entertainment's Vampirella. Including stories, characters, and derivative works of the Vampirella universe.{{Cite web | url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mike-pike-productions-announces-arowana-120000077.html | title=Mike The Pike Productions Announces: Arowana Media Holdings Acquires Worldwide Film and Television Rights to Iconic Vampirella Universe | date=March 2, 2021 | work=Yahoo Finance}}

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Vampirella originally hails from the planet Drakulon, a world where blood flows like water and where the natives, called the Vampiri, share traditionally vampiric characteristics. Drakulon orbits a binary star which causes continuous droughts throughout the year. These droughts gradually dry up the Vampiri's blood supply; threatening them with extinction. Vampirella's journey begins when an American space shuttle crashes on Drakulon. Hoping to save her people, she travels to Earth and begins hunting dark remnants of her own race. Earth's vampires originate from Dracula, a forgotten member of the Vampiri race who left his homeworld centuries ago only to be corrupted by the demonic entity known as Chaos.{{cite web|url=http://www.vampilore.co.uk/history01.html|title=Vampirella: The Warren Years|first=Robin|last=White|publisher= Vampilore.com|access-date=June 15, 2019}}

After relaunching Vampirella with the miniseries Morning In America, written by Kurt Busiek, Harris Comics published the story "Mystery Walk", which revised Vampirella's origin. She learns she is, in fact, the daughter of Lilith, whom popular medieval Jewish lore depicts as the first wife of Adam. Lilith would not submit to Adam and, cast out of Eden by God, spawned demons. She later repented and went to Eden to bear children to fight the evil she had created. Her first attempt was Madek and Magdalene, who turned to evil; Vampirella was her second. Madek and Magdalene brainwashed her into believing she was from Drakulon.

Further retcons were presented in Vampirella Lives and in Blood Lust. Drakulon is real, but is a place in Hell. Vampirella was brought to Eden, not born there. It was Lilith, not Madek and Magdalene, who made believe Drakulon was another planet. Vampirella restores the rivers of blood to Drakulon, which weakens Lilith, who is killed by the hand of God.

A further revision in the "World's End" storyline revealed Lilith did not really repent and raised Vampirella to be good because she wanted to release the Heart of Darkness (heart of the fallen angel Malkuth) from Metatron's lance, which could only be done by a good person. Another retcon, in Vampirella: Revelations, reveals the reason Lilith raised Vampirella to be good was that the existence of vampires made Lilith weaker and she wanted someone to kill them. Lilith used a magic mirror to make Vampirella believe whatever variation on her origin was necessary at the time.

In the initial Dynamite-published series, Vampirella works reluctantly with Dracula against a rebellious cult of his former followers. Acquiring Sofia Murray as her sidekick, Vampirella becomes involved in a plot by the Vatican that ultimately resurrects Von Kreist and leads to Sofia's death. Vampirella severs her ties with the Vatican and finds herself working for the forces of Order again. Reuniting with a resurrected Van Helsing, Pendragon, and other characters from the Warren Magazine run, Vampirella visits the future and discovers the world destroyed by the supernatural. Trying to form a supernatural kingdom to contradict this, Vampirella falls prey to a conspiracy by Dracula and a group of vampire knights that result in reality becoming unraveled. Lilith banishes Vampirella from her universe in order to save her.

Vampirella was relaunched with Our Lady Of Shadows as an agent of the Vatican before being relaunched again with a new costume in Hollywood Horror under author Kate Leth. In this universe, Vampirella has recently come to Earth and become a Hollywood scream queen. She lives with her live-in boyfriend Tristan and butler Coleridge.

After falling into a thousand-year sleep, Vampirella awakes in a bizarre, dystopian future, where she meets her new sidekick and girlfriend, Vicki, and a black cat she names Grit.{{cite web|url= http://www.comicosity.com/interview-jeremy-whitley-takes-a-bite-of-vampirella/|title= Jeremy Whitley takes a bite of Vampirella|publisher= Comicosity|date= October 19, 2017|access-date= October 20, 2017|archive-date= October 21, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171021061522/http://www.comicosity.com/interview-jeremy-whitley-takes-a-bite-of-vampirella/|url-status= dead}} After going on a journey through her own mind, Vampirella learns she has absorbed all the memories and experiences of a hundred Vampirellas from parallel universes.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

According to the Hack/Slash series, Vampirella currently works as a radio talk show host and has several times teamed up with Cassie and her partner Vlad to stop demons and vampires instead of the standard slashers the series is known for. She and Vlad have an intense physical attraction and relationship, but broke up because his nomadic lifestyle did not mesh with hers.

In the 2019 version by Christopher Priest, the writer incorporated all the previous versions of the character's history to make a comprehensive revision of Vampirella's back story.{{Cite web|date=2019-11-12|title=Exclusive: Christopher Priest Reveals Redesigned Vampirella Villains|url=https://www.cbr.com/priest-redesigned-vampirella-villains/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=CBR|language=en-US}} Vampirella has been on Earth for 50 years,{{Cite web|last=News|first=First Comics|date=2021-02-08|title=Vampirella #17 preview|url=https://comicalopinions.com/vampirella-vol-5-17-review/|access-date=2021-11-05|language=en-US}} and Draklon is an alternate version of Earth's moon. The alternate version of Earth is called Arcadia.{{Cite web|date=2021-06-30|title=Vampirella (vol. 5) #21 - An Honest Review|url=https://comicalopinions.com/vampirella-vol-5-21-review/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Comical Opinions|language=en-US}} Drakulon and Arcadia were at war which caused Aracadia to die out and Drakulon became an archaic society. She has strained relationships with Lilith, Draculina, Victory (her one time girlfriend), and Chasity.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-06|title=Vampirella (vol. 5) #22 - Review|url=https://comicalopinions.com/vampirella-vol-5-22-review/|access-date=2021-11-10|website=Comical Opinions|language=en-US}} After Vampirella married Dracula, she had his child;{{Cite web |last=Schreur |first=Brandon |date=2022-09-13 |title=Vampirella Is About to Give Birth to Her First Child |url=https://www.cbr.com/vampirella-give-birth-first-child-dynamite/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=CBR |language=en}} the baby was taken by Draculina but later returned to Vampirella.{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |last3= |last4= |last5= |last6= |first6= |date=2025-02-07 |title=Preview: 'Vampirella' #672 by Christopher Priest and Ivan F. Silva |url=https://www.lotuslandcomics.com/2024/10/preview-vampirella-672-by-christopher.html |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Lotus Land Comics}}

Vampirella possesses many of the typical powers of mythological vampires. She exerts super-strength when facing her opponents and can move so fast that she appears as a blur of motion.Vampirella, volume 1, issue #4Vampirella, volume 1, issue #10 Her senses are far beyond those of humans, allowing her to tell one's emotional state through their scent, hear things imperceptible to humans, and see clearly in total darkness. She has increased athletic abilities and possesses stamina, reflexes, and agility beyond that of humans. Her healing factor grants her resilience, allows her to heal rapidly from her wounds, and makes her immune to Earthly illness and toxins. Feeding quickly restores her strength and health.

She has the power to grow a giant pair of chiropteran wings to allow self-propelled flight. She can make her stare and even her voice hypnotic. She has been seen as having the ability to induce sexual arousal in males simply by being in their presence. She is shown to have the power of telepathy as she was able to hear the voices of demons inside Jackie Estacado's mind.The Darkness/Vampirella

She is immortal. In addition to her supernatural abilities, Vampirella is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and is shown to be skilled with modern-day firearms.

Christopher Priest's world of Vampirella has been expanded in spinoffs. The first is Sacred Six (2020), which follows Lilith, Vampirella's mother, protecting a vampire city with a team consisting of Nyx, Chastity, Pantha, Victory (who takes on the name Draculina), and Katie (the real Draculina).{{Cite web|last=Says|first=Free Social Shares Tool|date=2020-12-24|title=Vampirella (vol. 5) #16 Review|url=https://comicalopinions.com/vampirella-vol-5-16-review/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Comical Opinions|language=en-US}} Solo series were published for Nyx (2021),{{cite web|url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2021/08/vampirella-spinoff-nyx-launching-this-november/|title=Vampirella spinoff Nyx launching this November|date=23 August 2021}} Pantha (2022),{{Cite web|title=Pantha gets new series in January — Major Spoilers — Comic Book Reviews, News, Previews, and Podcasts|date=25 October 2021 |url=https://majorspoilers.com/2021/10/25/pantha-gets-new-series-in-january/|access-date=2021-10-30|language=en-US}} Draculina (2022), and Victory (2023).{{Cite web |last=Comments |first=Rich Johnston {{!}} |date=2023-03-22 |title=Vampirella's Victory Gets Own Series by David F Walker & Brett Weldele |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/vampirella-victory-gets-own-series-by-david-f-walker-brett-weldele/ |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en}}

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• Vampirella

:The heroine is a vampire, since she is the daughter of Lilith and needs blood to survive and has many of the typical vampiric powers, including superhuman physical abilities, shapeshifting into a bat, immortality, and a mesmeric stare. She is not prone to the race's traditional weaknesses, such as daylight, holy water, garlic, or crosses. She does not attack people to drink their blood, except occasionally when she herself is attacked or desires to kill.

• Pendragon

:A former sorcerer, now a sideshow magician. Vampirella calls him "Pendy dearest" and treats him as she would a kindly old uncle. While occasionally his knowledge of magic is useful to her, Pendragon is often a liability. In the Warren stories they often travel together, seeking out evil-doers, but Pendragon is generally depicted as getting lost, getting drunk, falling asleep, or otherwise fumbling at a critical moment, thus causing a crisis. Vampirella is deeply loyal to him, however; he is the only real family she has.

• Conrad van Helsing

:A blind, psychic vampire hunter. He was pursuing Dracula and initially tried to destroy Vampirella, believing her to be kin to that vampire lord.

• Adam van Helsing

:Conrad's son, and the last of a long line of vampire hunters, he followed his father's steps and became a paranormal researcher. He is portrayed as more open-minded than his father. He believed Vampirella was not evil, and eventually they fell in love. Vampirella has often helped Adam in his research.

• Tyler Westron

:A physician who rescued Vampirella after a plane crash. Due to the injuries she sustained, he had to amputate her wings and was able to create a substitute blood serum that keeps Vampirella's thirst under control.

• Dracula

:Dracula appears as the most frequently recurring villain of the series.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

• The Blood-Red Queen of Hearts

:Formerly known as Jezebel, or the Whore of Babylon, she was once a beautiful woman of ancient Babylon. She served as high priestess of the mad-god Chaos, until she offended her master by demanding that he make her his queen. As punishment, Chaos destroyed her body and trapped her soul within a Queen of Hearts playing card. Though she no longer has a physical form of her own, she has continued to exist for thousands of years as the card. Whenever a woman touches the card, she becomes the Queen.

• Madek and Magdalene

:Evil brother and sister of Vampirella, who planted false memories of the planet Drakulon in Vampirella's mind, in one version of her origin.

• Draculina

:Vampirella's blonde twin sister, who first appeared in Vampirella #2 (1969). She would make sporadic appearances in Harris publications, such as in Vampirella Quarterly Summer 2008.{{Cite web|title=Vampirella Quarterly Summer 2008 #1 (Segovia cover) - Westfield Comics|url=https://westfieldcomics.com/comic-books/Vampirella-Quarterly-Summer-2008-Segovia-cover/76590881|access-date=2022-01-20|website=westfieldcomics.com}} She began appearing in Dynamite stories in 2015.[http://www.fandompost.com/2015/04/08/vampirella-11-review/ Vampirella #11 review]. Fandompost.com She has a alternate version called Katherine (also Katie or Vampirette), switching places using a cursed candle.{{Cite web |last=Collinson |first=Gary |date=2021-12-22 |title=Vampirella, Red Sonja, Barbarella, Draculina, Sheena, Purgatori and Jennifer Blood featured on Dynamite cosplay covers for February 2022 |url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/vampirella-red-sonja-barbarella-draculina-sheena-purgatori-jennifer-blood-dynamite-cosplay-covers-february-2022/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Flickering Myth |language=en-US}}

• Nuberus

:The demon who tempted Vampirella with her true origin in order to gain access to Earth.

• Sofia Murray

:A young punk girl rescued by Vampirella who becomes her sidekick in the first Dynamite series.

• Von Kreist

:A former Prussian World War I officer, now a lich, who won his state of immortality in a card game with Satan, but at the price of steadily decaying alive. A cruel and sadistic mastermind, with a special victim preference in children.{{Cite web | url=http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/rbp20/characters/kreist.htm | title=Von Kreist | work=Vampirella Revealed | access-date=2008-06-10 | archive-date=2008-10-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007105625/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/rbp20/characters/kreist.htm | url-status=dead }}

• Chaos

:The ruler of Hell and the master of most of the villains that Vampirella faces.

• Mistress Nyx

:The daughter of a liaison between the mad-god Chaos and Lucrezia Borgia.Vampirella #16 A demonic persona, who is bent on destroying Vampirella.

• Dixie Fattoni

:One of two daughters of a Mafioso boss whom she was forced to kill by von Kreist; her twin sister Pixie was turned into a vampire by von Kreist's minions. Vampirella took the orphaned girl under her wing and trained her in combating vampires.

• Pantha

:Initially, alien shapeshifter from Vampirella's native planet who can morph into a black panther. Later stories rewrote her origin to that of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh that was cursed by the Egyptian gods because of a murderous spree . She is cursed to live forever, with periods where she does not know who or what she is.

• Lilith

:Vampirella's mother and the first woman created by God. Her story is told in the alternate version of the events of Genesis, she was the first wife of Adam, and the mother of demons. She sent her daughter to Earth to atone for her mistakes. In Priest's run, she no longer is the first woman but a woman from the planet Drakulon.{{Cite web|title=Priest's Vampirella Kicks Off Year Two With a New Story Arc|url=https://www.comicsforsinners.com/priests-vampirella-kicks-off-year-two-with-a-new-story-arc/|access-date=2022-01-23|website=Comics for Sinners|date=18 September 2020 |language=en-US}}

• Tristan

: Vampirella's boyfriend on Drakulon in the Warren series who was killed by astronauts from Earth.{{Cite web |last=Wickline |first=Dan |date=2014-12-03 |title="My Take On Vampirism Tends More Towards The Hardboiled / Noir" - Nancy Collins On Vampirella |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/take-vampirism-tends-towards-hardboiled-noir-nancy-collins-vampirella/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en}} In the 2010 Dynamite series, he is Vampirella's boyfriend and a werewolf.

• Victory

: Victoria Harris ("Victory") debuted in the 2019 Dynamite Priest era of Vampirella;{{Cite web |last=Destito |first=Deanna |date=2023-03-22 |title=Syndicated Comics |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/vampirellas-lover-turned-foe-victory-gets-a-solo-series/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}} her name is taken from when Drauclina used the name Victory as an alias during the Harris Era.

• Hemorrhage

: A wielder of Bloodmagic and lover of Nyx.

• Mamba

:A snake goddess and nemey of Pantha

• Lukas Van Helsing

:The future son of Vampirella and Adam van Hellsing.

• Drago

:Vampirella's half brother who became Vampirella's ally after falling in love with a human woman.{{Cite web |last=Comments |first=Rich Johnston {{!}} |date=2020-07-14 |title=Christopher Priest's Writers Commentary, Justifying Vampirella #10 |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/christopher-priests-writers-commentary-on-vampirella-10/ |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}}

• Coleridge

:Vampirella's butler.

• Dixie Fattoni

:The daughter of a crime boss who befriends Vampirella.

• Lorelei

: A young vampire from the planet Drakulon.

• Professor Quatermass

:A time traveler seeking to conquer history.

• Dervish

: A member of the Danse Macabra organization.

• Metifa

: The villain from the one shot story "Prelude to Shadows" and the bride of Satan.

• Cicero

:Vampirella and Dracula's son.{{Cite web |last=Schreur |first=Brandon |date=2022-09-13 |title=Vampirella Is About to Give Birth to Her First Child |url=https://www.cbr.com/vampirella-give-birth-first-child-dynamite/ |access-date=2025-03-05 |website=CBR |language=en}}

Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.{{cite book| last = Frankenhoff| first = Brent| author-link = Brent Frankenhoff| title = Comics Buyer's Guide Presents: 100 Sexiest Women in Comics| publisher = Krause Publications | year = 2011| page = 29| url = | isbn = 978-1-4402-2988-6}}

Data is derived from annual Statements of Circulation. "Copies printed" refers to total print run. "Total paid circulation" refers to number of copies actually sold, which is the above number minus returns, lost/damaged copies, and free/promotional copies.{{Cite web | url=http://www.comichron.com/titlespotlights/Vampirella.html | title=Vampirella Sales Figures | work=The Comics Chronicles}}

In 2000 a comic book series entitled Vampi began circulation through Anarchy Studio. The series followed Vampi, an alternate futuristic version of Vampirella that seeks to find a cure for her vampirism. The main series ran for 25 issues. Several miniseries followed under the titles Vampi Vicious, Vampi Vicious Circle, Vampi Vicious Rampage, and Vampi vs. Xin. An omnibus edition collecting the first eighteen issues of the initial run was released in 2012 through Dynamite Entertainment.

In January 2014 Dynamite Entertainment released Li'l Vampi, a one-shot comic book by writer Eric Trautmann and artist Agnes Garbowska.{{cite web|title=Exclusive Extended Previews – Cryptozoic Man #3 and Li'l Vampi|date=7 January 2014|url=http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/07/exclusive-extended-previews-cryptozoic-man-3-and-lil-vampi/|publisher=Bleeding Cool|access-date=20 March 2014}} The comic followed a child version of Vampirella as she tries to uncover why monsters are destroying the town of Stoker, Maine.{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Kelly|author-link=Kelly Thompson|title=LI'L VAMPI #1 (review)|date=9 January 2014|url=http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=6846|publisher=CBR|access-date=20 March 2014}}

In 1992 Canadian actor and award-winning screenwriter, Peter Jobin, created the production company Europa Production Investment Corporation and purchased the movie rights to the comic book character Vampirella. Based on the source material, Mr. Jobin wrote the first draft screenplay and began the process of securing financing. Promotional artwork was commissioned from graphic artist William (Bill) Rankine. Promotional and investment packaging was presented at the May 1993 Cannes Film Festival at the American Pavilion. A full page promotional poster was also featured in the May 18, 1993 Hollywood Reporter Cannes '93 Daily Satellite Edition - Day 5. Financing was never fully completed for Vampirella: The Motion Picture and the film rights lapsed.

In 1996, a Vampirella film adaptation was produced by Concorde Pictures, starring Talisa Soto in the title role. In 2021, Dynamite Entertainment announced a new feature film was in development in addition to plans for television adaptations based on the Vampirella Universe.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-02|title=Dynamite's Vampirella Is Coming To the Big Screen|url=https://www.superherohype.com/movies/494052-dynamites-vampirella-is-coming-back-to-the-big-screen|access-date=2021-03-02|website=SuperHeroHype}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100805082953/http://citypaper.net/articles/2005-01-06/cover.shtml "Jim Warren Meets Vampirella"] Philadelphia City Paper, January 6–12, 2005
• [http://toonopedia.com/vampi.htm Vampirella] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [https://archive.today/20220420120734/https://toonopedia.com/vampi.htm Archived] from the original on July 19, 2015.

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