Comments on: Comic Book Transfusions: Batman

By: Rimless

Rimless — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:03:41 +0000

Batman repays Bennett’s actions by donating enough blood to keep the vampire alive…ooh, but for how long, such a waste of good blood!

By: Sable Hope

Sable Hope — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:59:17 +0000

Oooooh I must find this issue, it looks too wierd not to miss.
Alas, the internet has failed me. *cries*

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:15:49 +0000

If the Batman bit a vampire, would that vampire contract the curse of Humanism?

By: Sean Duggan

Sean Duggan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:15:51 +0000

I remember being very fond of a short story in one of the Alfred Hitchcock collections involving a man with a rare blood type (presumably one of those odd twisted proteins) finding out that the blood bank he was donating to was run by a vampire who could only digest that blood type. I was impressed at the explanations of vampiric weaknesses (”Yes, we do react very badly to sunlight. But so do you humans. It just works a lot more slowly and you call it sunburn.”) and I was amazed at the time at the idea of people actually getting paid to donate their blood (it was actually a bugaboo of the protagonist in that his blood was apparently rare enough to command top dollar and the Red Cross kept asking him to donate for free, the nerve!).

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:28:20 +0000

Since Bennet recently turned a talking gorilla into a vampire I’m going to guess No on that blood type thing for DC vamps…

By: Dr Archeville

Dr Archeville — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:52:25 +0000

No heartbeat? Not necessarily. ;-)

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:29:04 +0000

They’re always drinking blood though, not receiving it in IVs, so their digestive system may have adapted to handle blood. However vampires are traditionally shown as not having a heartbeat, so they wouldn’t have circulation, so how could you give them blood with an IV?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:46:13 +0000

Chris,

Surprisingly no, this is Mike Barr’s work.

By: Chris Sims

Chris Sims — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:44 +0000

Just a guess here: Bob Haney?

By: Dr Archeville

Dr Archeville — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:30:24 +0000

They probably become some sort of “multiversal recipient” (beyond “universal recipient”) — they can take blood from any human, and from most animals, too!

‘Course, since it’s all semi-magical, it’s probably not working on the same mechanism as a true blood transfusion. I mean, vamps typically take their “transfusions” orally, not intravenously.