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American Vampire Comes to an End With 1976

Do you remember when American Vampire was first announced? All the fuss was that Stephen King was co-writing the series. Well, they don't need that now. The news about American Vampire returning for its final chapter is all about creators Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque – and it's set in 1976. Man, all those Americans being eaten who will never get to see Star Wars…

America is broken. Trust between the government and the American public has crumbled. Paranoia reigns supreme. It's 1976, not 2020, and this horrifying tale is the concluding chapter of the Eisner Award-winning American Vampire, reuniting Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque for a nine-issue miniseries!

"Scott, Rafael, and I, we cut our teeth together on American Vampire 10 years ago," said executive editor Mark Doyle. "Returning to finish the story we started a decade ago is a thrill. Working on American Vampire 1976 has been so creepy and cool, especially because the parallels between 70's paranoia and today are really chilling…"

Skinner Sweet has exhausted all efforts to regain his lost immortality. With his powers and purpose gone, he is now determined to go out with a bang. At a seedy motorcycle rally in the desert where Skinner's closer than ever to his death wish, Pearl Jones and a shocking partner track him down for one last, desperate mission: the force known as the Gray Trader and its minions are tunneling through the bowels of the world to unleash hell on Earth—just in time for America's bicentennial. With catastrophe looming, it's up to Skinner and Pearl to reconcile and change the course of history—or die trying.

"The characters in '76 are in a really dark place in terms of the fight against evil," says Snyder. "The '70s mirror our current era in many ways: the anxiety, the fear, and the re-examination of American identity. The book opens on Skinner Sweet working outside of Vegas doing death-defying Evel Knievel-style stunts, trying to die. There's a kind of Son of Sam plot in New York City with Cal and Travis, a political thriller plot with Felicia, and all sorts of '70s iconography. It's my favorite arc so far."

American Vampire 1976 #1 of nine by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque will be published by DC's Black Label on October 20th, 2020 for $3.99 with cover artwork by Albuquerque and a variant cover by Dustin Nguyen.

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