Blade

BLADE... Named for the razor-sharp bowies that never left his side, he was unmatched in size and strength. In post-nuclear America, he was the last hope of what was left of the civilized world. THE FREEDOM FORCE... Six men trained in the art of killing; each was a perfect instrument of death. In a ravaged world crawling with mutants and savages, their talents were much in demand.

THE FORCE... Led by Blade, they were seven hand-picked members of the Freedom Federation. Each was a volunteer because no one had the guts to order them to go anywhere, each alone was worth an army - together, they couldn't be stopped. THE MISSION... Sanitize the Outlands of Oregon, which were under the rule of a vile race of mutants called the Reptiloids. Their diabolical leader had a taste for pitting humans against each other in Roman arena combat, and all the lizard-men had a taste for human flesh. They had rounded up all the men, women and children in the territory and were preparing for a great feast - but what they didn't know was that Blade was coming to dinner, and the special of the day was lizard stew.

In the arid San Diego Dead Zone, murderous fiends called the Vampires were kidnapping young girls to use them as the main course at a sick feast. Nobody knew if the Vampires were the inhuman monsters of legend, or human aberrations twisted by the nuclear holocaust. No matter what they were, Blade wanted them killed - even if he had to drive a stake through every one of their hearts.

Sent by the Federation into the Arctic Circle to reactivate the Alaskan pipeline for an energy-starved post-World War III world, Blade and his team encounter a madman bent on destruction of what is left of the planet.

Post-World War III high-seas pirates menace the town of Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, and Blade and his fearsome fighting force step in to scuttle the band's skullduggery and put an end to the burgeoning slave trade.

After the bombs stopped falling, the real killing began. One hundred years after World War III, Blade infiltrates Shantytown in order to sabotage the plans of Crusher Payne to use an army of monster machines to destroy the Freedom Federation.

Life was hell in nuked-out America, and the only salvation was death. Blade fights to protect his wife and son when the terrors of post-nuclear America follow them from the city to the secluded lake where they have camped out.

In the mountains of Baja California, a man they called El Diablo was raiding civilized settlements and leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. Backed by the Freedom Force, Blade stormed into the Baja to put an end to El Diablo's reign of terror, but had he finally met his match?

Global nuclear war had left the earth a stinking cesspool, polluted by radioactive fallout and poisoned by chemical toxins. Mutations abounded. Barbarians reigned. Against them all fought the Freedom Force, civilization's last hope for survival. And when Los Angeles fell victim to a mindless incursion of savages, it was up to the Force to lift the siege. Matching violence with super violence and death with megadeath, Blade and his comrades blew into the City of Angels like devils out of hell - and L.A. would never be the same.

After World War III, areas that had sustained direct nuclear strikes were left as uncharted, contaminated wastelands. These dead zones became breeding grounds for vicious, man-eating monsters. When giant bat-men started terrorizing the Dakota Territory, Blade and the Force tracked them to the heart of a dead zone. And though the beasts were the deadliest foes they'd ever encountered, the Force would destroy the bat-men - or die in the infernal depths that had spawned them.

THE FORCE: An elite fighting squad led by Blade, they struggled against the madmen and mutations bent on destroying mankind in the barbarous era following World War III. In a land where betrayal was a way of life, their friends were few, and their enemies grew more deadly every day. VENGEANCE STRIKE: Chief among the Force's adversaries, the Lords of Kismet had suffered one defeat after another. But from their Asian homeland, they brought a diabolical secret weapon - ancient shapeshifters that thrived on human flesh. Determined to destroy the Force, the Lords of Kismet lured them into a remote California valley. Unwittingly, Blade and his comrades stumbled into what might be the last battle they ever fought - a battle to the death in which their foe might wear the face of a friend.

BLADE: A giant among men, he headed the war to keep post-apocalyptic America from falling under the control of the mutants and degenerates who roamed the burned-out land. MESAVILLE: Hidden in the subterranean depths of what was once the Arizona desert, this cesspool of decadence was a refuge for every worthless scavenger in the Outlands. There, crime was a way of life, and the only leader to whom the outlaws bowed was the diabolical Death Master. For anyone who crossed Death Master faced a punishment none could survive. DEATH MASTER STRIKE: Searching for an old comrade, Blade hoped to sneak in and out of Mesaville without trouble. He didn't know that Death Master had other plans for him that didn't include leaving. Caught in a trap, Blade had to destroy Mesaville to save his life - and civilization.

BLADE: The seven-foot-tall, iron-muscled leader of the Freedom Force, he headed the struggle to restore order after World War III plunged the Earth into chaos. But even Blade couldn't save everyone from dying at the hands of the maniacs, murderers, and mutants who ranged the nuked-out land. QUEST STRIKE: Disturbing clues that a member of the Force presumed dead might still be living led Blade to Los Angeles. There, what should have been a simple inquiry turned into a bloodbath. For hidden forces had covered up the truth about the lost warrior, killing anyone who dared to investigate. But the people behind the conspiracy had never confronted an opponent like Blade - and they wouldn't live to battle another.