Andrew Bennett (DC)
Andrew Bennett is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Andrew Bennett
In 1591, Andrew Bennett was a celebrated English nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's court. He distinguished himself in military service during the Anglo-Spanish War. His lover Mary Seward was the Queen's handmaiden. During one of his late-night rides, he was attacked and bitten by a vampire. Bennett slew the vampire and then hid in his bedroom to resist bloodlust, feeding only on animals. Mary begged him to transform her so she could be with him for eternity, and he agreed in a moment of weakness. To his horror, she lost her humanity and became a merciless killer. Mary took the name Queen of Blood and started the Cult of the Blood Red Moon, a secret international organization of vampires. Bennett dedicated his immortal life to tracking her down across the centuries, trying to end the terror he released upon the world. (House of Mystery v1 #290)
In the early 1900s, he worked with a man named Edward Trane in London, although Trane was captured by the Blood Red Moon and presumed dead. (House of Mystery v1 #314) Bennett met his friend and ally Dmitri Mishkin as a young boy, when Mary killed Dmitri's parents. He took the boy in and raised him as a vampire hunter, becoming his oldest friend. (House of Mystery v1 #295)
He recruited a young woman named Deborah Dancer to his crusade when he rescued her from Mary at the Woodstock festival. (House of Mystery v1 #311)
Eventually, Bennett, Deborah, and Dimitri track down Mary, Queen of Blood after many years, but it was revealed to be an impostor sent to embarrass him. (House of Mystery v1 #290) They take down a vampire drug dealer named Emil Veldt who gives them the Blood Red Moon's financial records. (House of Mystery v1 #291) Investigating all of their properties, they fight the American Freedom Party and meet Dmitri's vampiric mother Dunya Mishkin. (House of Mystery v1 #293) Dmitri was shaken so badly he nearly kills them in a car accident before confessing his sorrows. (House of Mystery v1 #295) Their next mission is the Temple of the Ineffable Tao. They meet a group of peaceful vampire monks led by Master Shoju, and slay the manipulative Billy Kessler. (House of Mystery v1 #297) When they're attacked by human agents of the Blood Red Moon in daytime, the group is trapped in a cave-in. Bennett nearly gives in to his bloodlust and eats Deborah, but she wakes up and he kisses her instead. Realizing that he must stop putting his friends in danger, Bennett abandoned them to continue his crusade alone. (House of Mystery v1 #299)
The next family to take him in are murdered when the Blood Red Moon finds him again. (House of Mystery v1 #302) He realized that their activities were linked to a traveling carnival, and infiltrated them in disguise. Mary discovered this ruse and staked him through the chest. (House of Mystery v1 #303) Bennett survived and thwarted their plans, burning the carnival to the ground. Every vampire was killed in the flames except Mary, who escaped again. (House of Mystery v1 #304) Vampires started dying when a cancer cure that was invented by Allen Barr that made human blood poisonous. Andrew followed Mary to Egypt, where they travelled backwards through time using the magic Rings of Kur-Alet. (House of Mystery v1 #305) Mary tried to kill Barr's grandparents in the 19th Century, but ended up fighting Jack the Ripper. (House of Mystery v1 #306)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
He heard of vampiric activity in Gotham City where he confronted the Mad Monk and his cult operating in Monstertown. From the encounter, he came to learn of a new threat that was being reborn. Through Frankenstein he came to learn that the figure was an individual known as Melmoth. (Gotham City Monsters v1 #1)
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Notes
- Andrew Bennett was created by J.M. DeMatteis and Tom Sutton where he made his first appearance in House of Mystery v1 #290 (March, 1981).
Appearances
- House of Mystery v1: (1981)
- I, Vampire v1:
- Justice League Dark v2:
- Gotham City Monsters v1:
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