American vampire (Graphic novel)

"A new vampire for a new century. Cunning, ruthless, and rattlesnake mean, Skinner Sweet has a reputation for cussedness as long as he is ornery. As the first vampire conceived on American soil, however, he's not your usual creature of the night. Stronger, fiercer and powered by the sun, Sweet is the first of a new breed of bloodsucker: the American Vampire. Forty-five years after rising from his grave, Sweet finds himself in 1920s Los Angeles, where...

This volume of the critically-acclaimed American Vampire series follows the star, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it? Includes American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #1-5.

"The American vampire called Pearl Jones has seen her human husband nearly slain by a coven of vampires she thought long destroyed. To end their un-American activities for good, she joins forces with her maker, Skinner, Sweet, and the bloodsucker hunting organization The VMS to track them down. But is there a double agent in their midst? And in Europe, a shocking Soviet attack on London has freed the most powerful vampire the world has ever known....

"Writer Scott Snyder (BATMAN, SWAMP THING) and artist Rafael Albuquerque bring together even more threads to the complex tapestry that is the world of AMERICAN VAMPIRE. When we last saw Pearl in the 1950s, she had lost her love Henry in an attack on the vampire hunting organization, V.M.S., by a coven of Hollywood vampires that nearly wiped the organization off the face of the planet. Devastated and alone, Pearl is determined to leave California and...