Claudia Chevalier Vampire Tome 1 (Nickel, 2004)

vol 1 la porte des enfers ©Mills/Tacito/Nickel

Series: Claudia Vampire Knight

Publisher: Nickel Productions

Published: January 2005 (first print)

ISBN/print: 978-2-914420-07-2 (1st print)
978-2-914420-07-5 (white cover print April 2010)

Size/binding: 32 x 23 cm, hardcover, 48 pages

Cover: Franck Tacito

Title: La Porte des Enfers

Artist: Franck Tacito

Story:

Prematurely deceased after a failed sacrifice, the guardian of hell's door is reborn in the chaos of Resurrection, where she is knighted as a vampire knight under the name of Claudia Daemona. Everything would be perfect in the worst of all worlds if a clause in her contract did not require her to return to Earth in the next six months to complete her duty. But no one has ever come out of the underworld ..

Comments:

Back cover of the Nickel series features an excerpt from interior art (see below with second and third of cover, and opening credit page)

Original edition of this first volume features a black background cover, which is not in lime with subsequent volume, and more generally the Requiem Vampire Knight collection displaying a white background. The reprint of volume 1 featured in the Claudia slipcase (April 2010) comes with a white background cover.

Other publishing form:

This first volume has also been sold in a slipcase edition with volume 2 and 3 (regular volumes inserted in a limited illustrated slipcase).

vol 1 - vol 2 - vol 3 ©Mills/Tacito/Nickel

In September 2017, Glénat the new publisher of the series has reprinted this first volume :

vol 1 glénat reprint 2017