Dampyr #069-70 (2006) ‘Condor’

This Italian supernatural adventure series has a lot of conceptual overlap with John Constantine and Doctor Who, traveling around and helping someone different in each episode. Harlan Draka is a sort of super-hero in plain clothes. He's a half-vampire "Dampyr" whose blood is poison to vampires, so he coats his weapons with it. He’s in every story, but not necessarily as its main protagonist. Often he is a secondary character who observes and helps the main character achieve his goals.

Many Dampyr stories take some terrible and momentous historical event and inject vampires into the narrative. This time the subject is the 1973 Chilean revolution, in which General Augusto Pinochet's military junta overthrew a socialist government with the assistance of the United States. Pinochet then embarked on a reign of terror known as "Operation Condor" to ferret out suspected "enemies of the state." 60,000 people were executed, and six times that many were imprisoned by Chile and its neighbors. Assassinations occurred further afield, including a car bomb on the streets of Washington, DC. Songs like U2's "Mothers of the Disappeared" and Steve Taylor's "Down Under" commemorated and mourned these events.

In this story, “Condor” is an alias for one of the vampiric Masters of the Night whose plans our heroes oppose. Harlan Draka and his friends protect a journalist's family from vampires. However, Harlan doesn't even appear until about halfway through the first issue of this two-parter.

Part one is entitled "The Days of the Condor," referring to Operation Condor as well as the the vampiric Condor in the story (though that should be "Nights of the Condor" obviously), while also giving a nod to the 1974 CIA thriller "Six Days of the Condor" by James Grady, and the Robert Redford film "Three Days of the Condor" based upon it a year later.

Part two, "The Desert of Atacama," takes our heroes deep into the North Chilean desert for a showdown with vampires in the mining town of Condor.