Dead of Night Featuring Devil-Slayer Vol 1 1

Dead of Night Featuring Devil-Slayer #1

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Art by: Kaare Andrews

Release Date

September 3, 2008

Cover Date

November, 2008

Issue Details

Editor-in-Chief

Joe Quesada

Rating

T+ (13 and up)

Original Price

$3.99

Pages

32

I told Miles to rely on me. He did. All of them did. They followed me without question... into this slaughterhouse... into Hell itself...

—Danny Sylva

Appearing in "One Foot in Hell"

Featured Characters:

Sergeant Danny Sylva (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

U.S. Army (First appearance)
- Quick Reaction Force (Q.R.F.) (First appearance)
  - PVC Miles Ochse (First appearance; dies) (Joins)
  - Demarkus (First appearance; dies)
  - Zims (First appearance; dies)
  - Kellerman (First appearance; dies)
  - Lopez (First appearance; dies)
  - Kennison (First appearance; dies)
  - Hasseron (First appearance; dies)
  - Januson (First appearance; dies)
  - Jones (First appearance; dies)
  - McKenna (First appearance; dies)
  - PFC William Wahl (First appearance; dies)
- Lieutenant Buckler (First appearance)
Isaac Kaufmann (First appearance)

Antagonists:

Bloodstone (First appearance)
- Belathauzer (First appearance)
- Other unnnamed Demons

Other Characters:

Daily Bugle (Mentioned)
Sun Air (First appearance)
Christ (Invoked)
Maria (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Hill (Mentioned)
Bun (Mentioned)
Oliveri (Mentioned)
Ba'athists (Mentioned)
Kurdish Wahhabi (Mentioned)
Shiite militias (Mentioned)
Al Qaeda (Mentioned)
Islamic Jihad (Mentioned)
Mohammad's Army (Mentioned)
God (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

Humans (Main story and flashback)
Demons

Locations:

Earth-85133 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
  - Iraq (First appearance)
    - Baghdad (First appearance)
      - Baghdad International Airport (First appearance)
      - Green Zone (First appearance)
        Q.R.F. barracks (First appearance)
  - Iran (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)

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Vehicles:

Events:

Iraq War

Synopsis for "One Foot in Hell"

This Devil-Slayer, Danny Sylva, is set during the American occupation of Iraq. Danny returns for his third tour of duty after having difficulties adjusting to civilian life (girlfriend dumps him, can't find work). When a fellow soldier named Wahl disappears, Danny's squad gets a lead on him, but they walk into an ambush and all but Danny are killed. Danny finds Wahl, strung up by his ankles with his throat cut while devils feed upon human bodies.

Solicit Synopsis

Abandoned by his fiancée, his family, his church, and his government, Sergeant Dan Sylva returns to Iraq for a third tour of duty - and a descent into Hell itself. If the demon Belathauzer and the mysterious mercenary group known as Bloodstone have their way, Iraq, the place where civilization began, may also be where civilization ends. The reinvented Devil-Slayer takes Marvel's DEAD OF NIGHT to terrifying new heights, from award-winning horror novelist Brian Keene (The Rising, Dark Hollow) and artist Chris Samnee (DAREDEVIL: BLOOD OF THE TARANTULA)!

Notes

This title is the second in a series of Dead of Night spotlight titles. The first was Dead of Night Featuring the Man-Thing.

This version of Devil-Slayer is not to be confused with Eric Simon Payne, the original Devil-Slayer.

The "Bloodstone" referenced in this issue is not to be confused with famed monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone, or his daughter Elsa Bloodstone.

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