The Blood Countess

In South America to question a young girl who has just escaped the Gestapo's clurches, The Avenger finds the area terror-struck by a series of vampire-like killings. People suggest the girl he seeks is involved. Is she a Nazi victim...or a vampire??? The Avenger original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine The Avenger, published by Street and Smith Publications. Five additional short stories were published in Clues Detective magazine (1942–1943), and a sixth novelette in The Shadow magazine in 1943. Newly written adventures were commissioned and published by Warner Brother's Paperback Library from 1973 to 1974. The Avenger was a pulp hero who combined elements of Doc Savage and the Shadow.