This first collection of the bestselling series created by MARC SILVESTRI, DAVID WOHL, BRIAN HABERLIN, and MICHAEL TURNER equips streetwise cop Sara Pezzini with the mysterious Witchblade, a weapon of prehistoric origin and untold power. As the artifact's bearer, Sara goes toe to toe with a Machiavellian industrialist, supernatural serial killers, and far worse, as the supernatural underworld of New York alters the course of her destiny forever. Gorgeously rendered and painstakingly assembled as the first in a series of absolute collected editions. When all eight volumes are collected, a special piece of cross-volume connecting spine art by STJEPAN SEJIC will be revealed. Collects WITCHBLADE #1-19, THE DARKNESS #9 and 10, TALES OF THE WITCHBLADE #1/2 and 3

"Contains material originally published in single magazine form as Witchblade #1-19, Tales of the Witchblade #0.5-3, and The Darkness #9-10."--Indicia.

A new era of Witchblade begins in this series-changing volume as Sara Pezzini, the Witchblade bearer for 100 issues, gives up the mystical gauntlet to a new bearer in Dani Baptiste! The Witchblade is a mysterious gauntlet which bonds with a female bearer and serves as the Balance between the forces of Light and Dark. Detective Sara Pezzini, the current bearer has discovered she is pregnant and in order to safeguard her baby has given up the artifact to young dancer Dani Baptiste. Written by Ron Marz (Ion, Samurai: Heaven & Earth) and featuring art by Adriana Melo (Star Wars), Stjepan Sejic (First Born), and Sami Basri (Anita Blake) this volume introduces readers to Dani Baptiste and serves as a prologue for First Born. Collecting Witchblade #101-109, plus cover gallery for a massive nine-issue trade paperback.

"New York City police detective Sara Pezzini is the reluctant bearer of the Witchblade, an ancient and mysterious mystical gauntlet that has bonded itself to her. Sara must resist the gauntlet's all-consuming thirst for battle, all the while solving the city's strangest crimes--many of which invariably seem to lead back to the Witchblade"--Page 4 of cover

New York City police detective Sara Pezzini becomes the new wielder of an ancient weapon known as the Witchblade, a mystic artifact that becomes whatever the bearer needs it to be, if she can learn to control it.

The tale of the mystical Witchblade continues. Sara Pezzini recovers from her vicious attack last issue. She contemplates the mysteries behind the Witchblade which has attached itself to her. By writers David Wohl and Christina Z, and superstar artist Michael Turner.