Dracula Lives!
| Dracula Lives! | |
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Dracula Lives! #1 (June 1973).
Art by Boris Vallejo. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | quarterly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | June 1973 – July 1975 |
| Number of issues | 13 |
| Main character(s) | Dracula |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Roy Thomas, Doug Moench, Steve Gerber, Gardner Fox |
| Artist(s) | Dick Giordano, John Buscema, Pablo Marcos, Gene Colan, Rich Buckler, Tony DeZuniga, Alan Weiss, Tony DiPreta |
| Penciller(s) | Jim Starlin, Bob Brown, George Tuska |
| Inker(s) | Syd Shores, Alfredo Alcala, Crusty Bunkers |
| Editor(s) |
Roy Thomas (issues #1–7) Marv Wolfman (issues #3, 8–13) |
| Collected editions | |
| Tomb of Dracula | |
| Tomb of Dracula Volume 3 | |
Dracula Lives! was an American black-and-white horror comic magazine series published by Marvel Comics in the mid-1970s. Dracula Lives! published 13 issues and one reprint annual, featuring Dracula stories.
Running concurrently with the longer-running Marvel comic Tomb of Dracula, the continuities of the two titles occasionally overlapped, with storylines weaving between the two. Most of the time, however, the stories in Dracula Lives! were stand-alone tales by various creative teams. Later issues of Dracula Lives! featured a serialized adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Dick Giordano.
The magazine format did not fall under the purview of the Comics Code, allowing the title to feature stronger content — such as moderate profanity, partial nudity, and more graphic violence — than Marvel's "mainstream" titles. The larger format allowed the interior artists to "stretch out" a bit more. Painted covers of the series were done by artists like Boris Vallejo, Neal Adams, and Luis Dominguez. Dracula Lives!' text and photo articles were mostly of the Count's various film appearances. The title of the magazine's letter column was "Dracula Reads!"
Dracula Lives! was released concurrently with Vampire Tales and Monsters Unleashed under the Marvel Monster Group brand in 1973.
The character Lianda first appeared in Dracula Lives! #1. The character Turac first appeared in Dracula Lives! #2 (Sept. 1973). The character Nimrod first appeared in Dracula Lives! #3 (Oct. 1973), created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema.
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