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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: Blade (1998)
Description: Heroes Through the Decades ass kicks into the '90s, with Wesley Snipes' cool, charismatic badass vampire hunter - Blade!In 1971 the Comics Code Authority updated its code criteria, which had been in place since 1954, relaxing the rules on the depiction of horror in comics. For the first time, vampires were allowed in comic books. Marvel's first pseudo-vampire character, Morbius the Living Vampire sowed the seeds for the second; Blade the Vampire Hunter.Wesley Snipes was originally interested in making an adaptation of Black Panther before his attention was piqued with a movie adaptation of...