History
Abraham Whistler was a vampire hunter who took on a young Blade and trained him in martial arts and as a vampire hunter. Blade, who was half-vampire himself, was given a serum developed by Whistler which would stop him from craving human plasma.[1]
When Blade hunted Michael Morbius, a young human student who was accidentally mutated into a vampire-like creature, Blade discovered the Neogenic Recombinator, which could transform humans into vampires. Whistler told him not to destroy it as it could also be used to cure Blade of the vampire in him. Morbius was eventually driven into hibernation.[2]
While Blade was hunting a vampire in Europe, Whistler was visited by the Black Cat, who was looking for help to cure Morbius. Whistler told her that the only way he knew to cure him would be to destroy him, and gave her a weapon to do so, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.[3]Notes
- The character was voiced by Malcolm McDowell in Spider-Man (1994 animated series) in his first two appearances, and by Oliver Muirhead in all subsequent appearances.
Trivia
- Abraham Whistler was created for the film Blade, based on Blade's comic book mentor Jamal Afari and named and visually modelled after Abraham van Helsing. Although Whistler did appear in the Spider-Man (1994 animated series) before his film appearance, David S. Goyer claims that Whistler was taken directly from him by John Semper, while Semper has claimed the opposite.[citation needed]
- Whistler's character has been criticized as an example of "whitewashing", due to his comic book counterpart Jamal Afari being black and Whistler being depicted as white.
See Also
- 4 appearance(s) of Abraham Whistler (Earth-92131)
- 2 image(s) of Abraham Whistler (Earth-92131)
- 1 quotation(s) by or about Abraham Whistler (Earth-92131)
Links and References
- Abraham Whistler on Wikipedia.org
- Abraham Whistler at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe