A shocking and original prequel to the ghastly events of the first Re-Animator movie! Set in his pre-Arkham days, Herbert West is up to his syringes in trouble with the Swiss authorities over the bizarre death of West's mentor, Dr. Hans Gruber.

West, everyone's favorite mad doctor from the Re-Animator films, is unable to convince the police in Zurich that he was trying to revive Dr. Gruber - not murder him. West must flex his charm muscles on Gruber's uptight and jealous estranged daughter Elena. The quest? To recover Gruber's body to prove his theories of re-animation or face being discredited in the eyes of the scientific community.

The trouble is someone has stolen Gruber's body. Or did it disappear under its own power? Little does West know that the body was stolen by voodoo zombies working for Gruber's childhood friend, Erich Metler, who is now ruler of a zombie village hidden in the Swiss Alps!

Written by Bill Spangler and illustrated by Jose Malaga, Dawn Of The Re-Animator journeys back in time to events prior to the first Re-Animator film.

from Adventure Hotline, March 1992