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| Title: | Tapping the Vein |
| Publisher: | Eclipse Comics Checker |
| Type: | Limited series |
| Years published: | 1989-1992 |
| Total issues: | 5 |
| Creators: | Clive Barker; P. Craig Russell; Scott Hampton; Steven E. Johnson; Alan Okamoto; Jim Pearson; Fred Burke; Stan Woch; Mark Farmer; Fred von Tobel; Steve Niles; Hector Gomez; Tim Conrad; Bo Hampton |
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Tapping the Vein is an American comic book limited series of the horror anthology genre. It features various artists and was published by Eclipse Comics on an irregular shipping schedule between 1989 and 1992. The series visually adapts short stories originally written by English author Clive Barker. The series was edited by Valarie Jones and Fred Burke.
Clive Barker's nightmarish vision has changed the face of horror forever. Now Barker does for comics what he's already done for film, stage, and fiction — stretching the very boundaries of the medium itself to bring forth the lyrical and the brutal.
Issues
- Tapping the Vein #1
- Tapping the Vein #2
- Tapping the Vein #3
- Tapping the Vein #4
- Tapping the Vein #5
Annuals & Specials
Collections
- Tapping the Vein: Books 1-5
Notes & Trivia
- Tapping the Vein redirects to this page.
- Catherine Yronwode was the Editor-in-Chief of Eclipse Comics during production of this series.
- Tapping the Vein: Books 1-5 collected all five volumes and was published by Checker in 2002.
- Tapping the Vein #1 adapts "Human Remains" and "Pig Blood Blues". "Human Remains" was originally published in Books of Blood, Volume 3. "Pig Blood Blues" was originally published in Books of Blood, Volume 1.
- Tapping the Vein #2 adapts "The Skins of the Fathers" and "In the Hills, the Cities", which were both originally published in Books of Blood, Volume 1.
- Tapping the Vein #3 adapts "The Midnight Meat Train", which was published in Books of Blood, Volume 1 and "Scape-Goats", which is taken from Books of Blood, Volume 3.
- Tapping the Vein #4 adapts "Hell's Event" from Books of Blood, Volume 2 and "The Madonna" from Books of Blood, Volume 5.
- Tapping the Vein #5 adapts "How Spoilers Bleed" from Books of Blood, Volume 6 and "Down, Satan!" from Books of Blood, Volume 4.
- "Down, Satan!" is also reprinted in the Dread graphic novel, published by Eclipse in May, 1993.
Related categories
Recommended Reading
External Links
- Tapping the Vein at LOCG
- Tapping the Vein at Comics.org
- Tapping the Vein at Comic Vine
- Tapping the Vein at Amazon.com
- Tapping the Vein at Clive Barker.com
- Tapping the Vein Vol 1 at Good Reads
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