Abraham Whistler Abraham Whistler Abraham Whistler is a fictional character appearing in Blade II American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a vampire and the mentor of Blade. Screenwriter David S. Goyer created him for the 1998 film "Blade" (in which the part was played by Kris Kristofferson), but he first appeared on screen in "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" where he was voiced by Malcolm McDowell and later by Oliver Muirhead. In 2006, Abraham Whistler appeared in the television show "". Abraham Whistler is a vampire hunter and the mentor of Blade. Abraham Whistler was once a happily married man
Blade (film) not only the important place of "Blade" in the wider vampire genre but also possible intertextual links between the Whistler character and a character named Whistler in "A Dozen Black Roses" (1996) by Nancy A. Collins, as they possess "striking similarities in role, dramatic focus, visual appearance, and sharing the name". Marv Wolfman unsuccessfully sued Marvel, New Line, and Time Warner for $35 million after the release of the film, claiming he was not bound by a work for hire contract when he created the character in 1972. He, along with artist Gene Colan, received a "based on characters created