BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
Sometime later, Brother Voodoo learned of a zombie cult in Port-au-Prince run by the houngan Doctor Friday. He was captured and forced to drink the concombre zombi, a datura poison which transfigured victims into zombies under Friday’s control. Jericho’s sacred medallion was also removed to leave him more vulnerable to the poison. Doctor Friday transported his zombies to New York, where he intended to hire them out as disposable assassins for a crime lord. Brother Voodoo drew enough strength from Daniel’s spirit to flee Friday’s hounfour in the South Bronx and seek out Marc Spector for his aid. He used salt and other foods to self-medicate and stave off the poison’s full effects long enough to explain his ordeal to Spector. They crossed paths with one of Friday’s zombies, who attempted a mob hit atop a rooftop restaurant. Moon Knight and his sometime ally Midnight helped Jericho dispose of the zombie suicide bomber.
Once he had stabilized his condition, Brother Voodoo was able to lead Moon Knight and his allies 
to the South Bronx hounfour. Jericho breached the tenement from below, while Moon Knight and Midnight dropped down from the Moon-Copter. The commotion caused Doctor Friday’s client Brutale to turn on him, delivering a lethal shot to the bokor before fleeing. Jericho grew stronger as he neared his stolen medallion and Friday’s life faded. Together with Daniel’s strength, they shattered the zombie spell, reverting the undead back to mere dead. Jericho was able to fully purge the datura from his system after that, and thanked Spector for his help. [Marc Spector: Moon Knight #6-7]
Doctor Strange came to Haiti seeking a favor from Brother Voodoo against the immortal Marie Laveau. A voodoo priestess, Marie enjoyed eternal life so long as she regularly drank the blood of a vampire. Unfortunately, Strange had recited the Montesi Formula months earlier which eradicated all vampires on Earth. The desperate Laveau found one accidentally preserved vampire in Strange’s younger brother Victor, inadvertently turned by the Montesi Formula’s opposite, the Vampiric Verses. She hoped to use Victor “Baron Blood” Strange to introduce a new plague of vampirism on humanity. Brother Voodoo helped guide Strange and his allies Rintrah and Morbius the Living Vampire to Christophe’s Citadel, which served as Laveau’s abode. When Marie turned her new vampires against the heroes, Brother Voodoo spoke to the dead of Henri Christophe and raised his own army of temporary zombies to fight them. All of Laveau’s new vampires were killed again (save Victor), but Marie escaped with her stolen Darkhold to try again.
Brother Voodoo, Doctor Strange and Morbius continued the hunt for Marie Laveau while Bambu guided Victor and some others to Jericho’s second estate on the Louisiana bayou. Unfortunately, Laveau avoided her pursuers and sought out Victor again. She and her aid Dragonus overcame 
Victor, Rintrah, Bambu and Morgana Blessing before Jericho and Strange knew where she had gone. Marie intended to sacrifice Morgana to the Darkhold and bring back the first vampire, Varnae of Atlantis. Bambu regained his senses and took the dagger’s blow meant for Morgana, saving the woman but doing nothing to stop the spell from being cast. Still, Varnae refused to serve Marie Laveau and escaped. It was Brother Voodoo who finally captured Laveau and recovered the Darkhold as she tried to run once more. Ending her machinations did little to alleviate the loss of his long-time companion, though. [Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #16-18]
Jericho had little time to grieve before a deadly sickness began to spread through the Haitian villages under his care. Loralee Tate came down from New Orleans to work with him at the local clinic treating the sickness, and their previous flirtation turned into a full romance. However, Loralee soon wanted to return to the States and study medicine further there. Her plan was to educate herself more about this sickness and return to Haiti armed with a better plan to solve it. Jericho felt abandoned (again) and didn’t want her to go, but she asked him to trust their love. He could not. In a moment of weakness, Jericho released his brother’s spirit to possess Loralee’s mind and alter her decisions, compelling her to remain with him in Haiti.
It seemed that Jericho immediately regretted the decision, but the damage was done. Loralee now acted under his compulsion to remain in Haiti and, if he released her from the compulsion, she would return to her senses and know what he had done. Jericho could not let her go, yet he kept her at arm’s length over his guilt. Even further, the Loa themselves rejected Brother Voodoo for his selfish act. The natural world turned against him and Haiti, with animal attacks and freak storms threatening the already disease-plagued island. Jericho finally accepted his responsibility and 
recalled Daniel’s spirit from Loralee’s body. Loralee was kind enough to offer Jericho forgiveness, but she could not stay with him after that. Alone once more, Brother Voodoo strived to find his faith and his moral compass again. [Marvel Super-Heroes (2nd series) #1]
[Note: The above story erroneously depicted Loralee Tate as a white woman. It also reported Bambu’s death was a result of a sickness in Haiti and not because of Marie Laveau, as seen in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #18.]
After the death of Bambu and his own transgressions with Loralee, Jericho Drumm chose to retire from his life as Brother Voodoo. He attempted to move on from Haiti and his role as an active 
“super-hero.” However, Jericho continued to trade on his reputation while promoting his new book on voodoo. [Daredevil (1st series) #311] The Loa would not allow him to fully separate himself from their service, however. Daniel’s spirit continued to reside within Jericho and began actively speaking to him on a regular basis. Jericho was reluctantly encouraged to continue as a supernatural investigator with pointed dreams and visions compelling his involvement. Jericho aided Morbius and Ghost Rider in a case of zombie revenge killings in New York. [Midnight Sons Unlimited #7] He later officiated the funeral of Michael Morbius alongside the Midnight Sons. [Morbius: The Living Vampire (1st series) #29]
[Note: Prior to Midnight Sons Unlimited #7, Daniel Drumm’s spirit was a silent extension of Jericho’s will who normally acted without a voice or agency of his own. After this point, Daniel began acting like a more traditional ghost who inhabited Jericho’s body and had his own thoughts and opinions on their work.]
Following the work done by Marie Leveau and Varnae, vampires began to return to the world. Jericho found himself as the unusual guardian for Lilith, Daughter of Dracula. Cursed to be her father’s eternal nemesis, Lilith was immune to most traditional forms of slaying a vampire and required no blood, yet she still suffered from bloodlust. Lilith still had something resembling a conscience (when she wasn’t… hungry) and so she reached out to Brother Voodoo to control her urges. Jericho used a vial of Lilith’s blood and his knowledge of voodoo to suppress her bloodlust, 
though the effects were intermittent and required regular reinforcement. Houngan and vampire thus became unlikely partners, eliminating zombies, vampires and other undead until Lilith could get the opportunity to eliminate her hated father once more. They fought the Scarecrow, a Hell-bound soul commanded by Blackheart to seek revenge of Dan Ketch and Ghost Rider’s family by reanimating his dead sister as a vessel. Lilith nearly went feral more than once, and Daniel’s spirit continually warned Jericho to never let his guard down around her. [Ghost Rider (3rd series) #82-85]
Jericho and Lilith eventually parted, and Brother Voodoo returned home to New Orleans. Jericho had to deal with the return of Marie Leveau, who sought to combine voodoo cults and organized crime in the Big Easy under her dominion. As a result, he initially refused to aid the vampire-hunter Blade when he arrived in New Orleans searching for Deacon Frost, the vampire who made him a daywalker. As it turned out, LeVeau and Frost were working together to consolidate their power over the forces of darkness. Jericho, Blade and his old partner Hannibal King united 
against the forces of evil, and Brother Voodoo pitted his craft against that of Marie Leveau. Though the Witch-Queen of New Orleans was more experienced, Jericho did not allow his ego to rule him. He supplicated himself before Damballah, Samedi and the other Loa, arguing that Marie wielded the gifts of Loa in her own name, not in respect of theirs. The Loa agreed, and turned their power against Marie Laveau until she was consumed by it. [Blade One-Shot]
Brother Voodoo served as a consulting practitioner on behalf of Oracle, Inc. and their super-team, the Heroes for Hire. The team’s field leader Iron Fist had exhausted the chi of his soul healing his partner Luke Cage from injuries and had fallen into a coma. Jericho medically and spiritually 
addressed his condition, and determined Danny Rand needed a “transfusion” of soul energy for his lifeforce. Those who loved him (Luke, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing and the White Tiger) accompanied Jericho in a ritual ceremony to transfer portions of their own life essence to bring back Iron Fist. The spiritual whirlwind was successful, and all involved survived the perilous procedure. [Heroes for Hire (1st series) #13]
Jericho detected a breach in the Deadside, the barrier between the realms of life and death. The force was localized in the nation of Wakanda, and he made contact with its king, T’Challa the Black Panther, to consult. T’Challa already suspected the return of his old nemesis Erik Killmonger, thanks to the alien power of the Resurrection Altar. Indeed, Killmonger assaulted Doctor Drumm and Black Panther with his zombie army when they journeyed to the altar. The Panther and Killmonger’s rivalry was personal, though, and so they chose to focus the conflict on a personal duel between competitors, allowing Jericho to shore up the boundaries between worlds.
T’Challa lost the fight and was left on the brink of death. Brother Voodoo reached out to Moon Knight, whose own patron Khonshu shared a pantheon with Bast, the Panther Goddess. This connection allowed Jericho to transmit Moon Knight’s consciousness to the realm of the dead and help guide Black Panther back to the living. The ceremony was threatened on both sides as the dream demon Nightmare accosted T’Challa and Spector, while the assassin named Malice slit 
Jericho’s throat as he kept the spiritual journey’s path open. Only through ritual meditation was Brother Voodoo able to maintain control of his bodily processes, preventing himself from bleeding out until help arrived. Mercifully, Moon Knight and Black Panther found their own way back from the spiritual plane, and Wakandan medicine saved Voodoo’s life and helped repair his severed vocal chords. [Black Panther (3rd series) #17-22]