Purgatori

Once a slave in ancient Egypt, Purgatori was transformed into a vampiric demoness after drinking the blood of a fallen angel. Cursed with immortality and dark supernatural power, she became a ruthless, bloodthirsty villain who crossed paths with Lady Death.

Few characters from the wild, boundary-pushing mid-1990s independent comics scene have burned as brightly — or as long — as Purgatori, who burst onto the scene in 1995 courtesy of creators Brian Pulido and Steven Hughes in Lady Death II: Between Heaven & Hell #1. Born from the Chaos! Comics era of gorgeous, dangerous femme fatales and gleefully transgressive storytelling, she's a figure dark enough to headline her own titles — Purgatori Must Die! and Vampirella versus Purgatori among them — and bold enough to share pages with icons like Vampirella, Red Sonja, Evil Ernie, and Chastity Marks. Now thriving under Dynamite Entertainment across a remarkable thirty-year publishing span, Purgatori is living proof that the most ferocious characters of the Copper/Modern Age can not only survive but genuinely flourish — and if you haven't made her acquaintance yet, Alice Cooper vs. Chaos! is just one of the wonderfully unhinged reasons to start.