Baron Blood

Baron Blood
Biographical Information
Real Name	John Falsworth
Aliases	Baron Blood Dr. Jacob Charles Cromwell The Slasher
Home country	England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Homeworld	Earth
Death	ca. 1914 1942 1980
Resurrection	ca. 1914 ca. 1968
Relatives	Lord Falsworth (elder brother) Jacqueline Falsworth (niece)
Physical Information
Species	Vampire (formerly human)
Gender	Male
Chronological / Political Information
Affiliation(s)	German Empire Nazi Germany
Citizenship	British German
Base of Operations	Falsworth Manor
Masters	Count Dracula Kaiser Wilhelm II
Occupation(s)	Aristocrat
Fictional Information
Created by	Roy Thomas Frank Robbins

John Falsworth was an English aristocrat, treasonous spy, and vampire of the 20th century.

Weapons and Abilities

Vampiric Abilities

• Animal Control: Blood could control legions of rats to attack at will.
• Flight: Blood could fly under his own power.
• Weather Manipulation: Blood was able to manipulate the weather with a localised area.
  • Blood used a gust of wind to disable the Human Torch's flames. (COMIC: The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood!)
• Shapeshifting: Blood could transform into a bat at will.
• Enhanced Strength: Blood possessed strength on a degree higher than that of the average human.
  • Blood picked up and threw the Human Torch into a brick wall hard enough to dislodge loose brickwork.

Skills

• Disguise: Blood had skills in disguising himself to avoid detection, and to prevent damage from the Sun.
  • Through his eternal youth and false teeth, Blood was able to disguise himself as his own (fictive) human son.

Notes

Behind the Scenes

• Baron Blood was created by American comic book writer and artist Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.

Trivia

• Blood's status as an agent of both Imperial and Nazi Germany is vaguely reminiscent of the life of Fritz Joubert Duquesne, who served as a spy in the Second Boer War, World War I, and World War II. While both harboured a hatred for the United Kingdom, the resemblance between the two ends there.
• Blood's corpse being switched out with that of a woman matches the fact that Adolf Hitler's alleged skull actually belonged to a woman. This is however a coincidence, as the determination about Hitler's false skull was only made in 2009, 29 years after the story was published.

Appearances

• The Invaders
  • The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! (first appearance)

Links

• Baron Blood on Wikipedia
• John Falsworth on the Marvel Database