Baron Blood

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.The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! - Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins - The Invaders Volume 1 #7 - Marvel Comics - Published 6 April 1976 - Page 10 - Retrieved 14 July 2023 (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.The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! - Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins - The Invaders Volume 1 #7 - Marvel Comics - Published 6 April 1976 - Page 11 - Retrieved 14 July 2023
===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.The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! - Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins - The Invaders Volume 1 #7 - Marvel Comics - Published 6 April 1976 - Page 27 - Retrieved 14 July 2023The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! - Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins - The Invaders Volume 1 #7 - Marvel Comics - Published 6 April 1976 - Page 31 - Retrieved 14 July 2023
==Notes==
===Behind the Scenes===
*Baron Blood was created by American comic book writer and artist Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood! - Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins - The Invaders Volume 1 #7 - Marvel Comics - Published 6 April 1976 - Page 1 - Retrieved 14 July 2023
=== 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 skullHitler's supposed skull really belongs to a woman - 30 September 2009 - CBC News - Retrieved 14 July 2023 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
==References==
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