Now, put that stake away—we’re about to explain exactly why Spike is now associated with Boris Karloff, and it has nothing to do with the show and everything to do with comic books. Buffy was popular enough early on to warrant comics, and two of these provided William’s surname as “Pratt.”
Those were the graphic novel Spike: Old Times and the comic Spike: Asylum, the latter of which evocatively had his last name written on a jar of his blood.
Now, those Spike comics and the new character info in them weren’t considered canonical when they were written, and it was obvious the writers were just horror fans who wanted to link this Buffy vampire to Boris Karloff.
However, Buffy eventually got some canon comic books that provided an official story for what happened to our Slayer and the Scooby Gang after the end of season 7. And in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 #7, our title character officially verifies William’s last name as “Pratt.”
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