Post-Crisis DC Earth’s vampire mythos ignites at a single point: 55,000 BCE. Then, in Kilimanjaro’s shadow, arose the King of Vampires.

His Stone Age emergence is foundational. His first victim: the first Homo sapiens. From this primal act and origin, later DC vampires – Dracula, Andrew Bennett – trace their chilling lineage, all descending from the King who rose at Kilimanjaro.