Dampyr is a series in comic books published by Sergio Bonelli Editore . The creators Dampyr are Mauro Boselli and Maurizio Colombo. Originally planned as a mini-series, Dampyr started as a regular Bonelli volume after the closing of Zona X, that was mainly written by the same authors, and because the publisher was trying to launch some new titles. It's published monthly since 2000. Harlan Draka, born in 1945 in a small village lost his mother who died in childbirth, and almost without having ever seen his father, grew up haunted by the bad reputation of being the son of a witch. Once grown, ekes out a living wandering in the neighboring countries together with a young boy, Yuri, posing as a dampyr, a son of a vampire and a human woman, can eliminate hypothetical cases of vampirism in people already dead.
His life will come to a turning point when, called by Kurjak, a rude soldier at the head of a small troop of men, in a local war infested with vampires , he discovers to be a really dampyr thanks to Tesla, a vampire which soon will become his ally. The blood of dampyr is poisonous for the Masters of the Night , a race of supervampiri which infests our world; Harlan therefore decided to dedicate his life to their destruction, accompanied by faithful companions Kurjak and Tesla. Also it receives the financial and moral help of Caleb Lost, an Amesha representative of one of the two "sides" that for millennia vie for domination of reality.