Amazing Fantasy #10
Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #10 (September 2005) is a double debut: it introduces Nina Price, the Vampire by Night — a vampire-werewolf hybrid and niece of the Werewolf by Night — in an eight-page horror back-up that launched one of Marvel's more idiosyncratic supernatural supporting players, later recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos. The issue also carries forward the second arc of the revived Amazing Fantasy series, which Marvel had deliberately reimagined as an anthology launching ground for new characters in conscious homage to the title's original 1960s role as Spider-Man's debut vehicle. Together, the two strips in this issue demonstrate that mid-2000s Marvel was still willing to use the anthology format to seed fresh concepts — a strategy that had diminishing returns across the industry but gave Nina Price enough runway to appear in multiple subsequent series.
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The second volume of Amazing Fantasy ran twenty issues from August 2004 through June 2006, edited by Mark Paniccia with MacKenzie Cadenhead as associate editor, under editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. After a first arc spotlighting Araña across issues #1–6, a short hiatus preceded the second arc in #7–12, written by Fred Van Lente with pencils by Leonard Kirk, centering on a new, female Scorpion (Carmilla Black). Issue #10 — the fourth chapter of the 'Poison Tomorrow' storyline — added a separate back-up strand written by Jeff Parker and illustrated by Federica Manfredi that debuted Nina Price; Parker and Manfredi carried the Vampire by Night strip through issues #10–12. The painted cover for the issue was produced by acclaimed illustrator James Jean, whose work graced much of this volume's run.
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- First appearance of Nina Price / Vampire by Night, created by writer Jeff Parker and artist Federica Manfredi, in an eight-page horror back-up story.
- Nina Price is established as the niece of Jack Russell (Werewolf by Night) and is a unique werewolf-vampire hybrid, cursed by both lycanthropic lineage and a vampire bite.
- The issue is Part 4 of 6 of the 'Poison Tomorrow' arc, the main story written by Fred Van Lente with interior pencils by Leonard Kirk, featuring the new female Scorpion (Carmilla Black) — herself introduced three issues earlier in Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #7.
- Cover art is by James Jean, who provided covers throughout the second volume of Amazing Fantasy.
- Secondary characters making their first appearances in this issue include A.I.M. operative Lars Branco and Anish Rao, per the Marvel Database character index.
- The Vampire by Night back-up strip ran for three installments (Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #10–12, September–November 2005).
- Nina Price later appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (2005–2006) and the All-New, All-Different Marvel era's Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, establishing her as a recurring Marvel supernatural character.
- The issue is part of the second volume of Amazing Fantasy, which Marvel positioned as a modern anthology launching pad for new characters, self-consciously echoing the 1962 original that introduced Spider-Man.
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Reprinted in Scorpion: Poison Tomorrow #[nn] (2005)
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