The Tomb of Dracula
| The Tomb of Dracula | |
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The Tomb of Dracula #40 (January 1976)
Cover art by Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia Dracula (center) with (l. to r.) recurring guest-character Harold H. Harold, and cast-members Rachel van Helsing, Frank Drake, and Quincy Harker |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | April 1972 – August 1979 |
| Number of issues | 70 |
| Main character(s) | Count Dracula |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Gerry Conway, Archie Goodwin, Gardner Fox, Marv Wolfman |
| Penciller(s) | Gene Colan |
| Inker(s) | Tom Palmer |
| Collected editions | |
| Essential Tomb of Dracula: Volume 1 | ISBN |
| Dracula: Sovereign Of The Damned | |
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闇の帝王 吸血鬼ドラキュラ (Yami no Teiō: Kyūketsuki Dorakyura) |
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| Genre | Horror supernatural fiction |
| Anime television film | |
| Directed by | Minoru Okazaki |
| Produced by | Yoshiaki Koizumi Yoshifumi Hatano Takeyuki Suzuki |
| Written by | Tadaaki Yamazaki |
| Music by | Seiji Yokoyama |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Released | August 19, 1980 |
| Runtime | 94 minutes |
The Tomb of Dracula is a horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979. The 70-issue series featured a group of vampire hunters who fought Count Dracula and other supernatural menaces. On rare occasions, Dracula would work with these vampire hunters against a common threat or battle other supernatural threats on his own, but more often than not, he was the antagonist rather than protagonist. In addition to his supernatural battles in this series, Marvel's Dracula often served as a supervillain to other characters in the Marvel Universe, battling the likes of Blade, Spider-Man, Werewolf by Night, the X-Men, and the licensed Robert E. Howard character Solomon Kane.
In 1971, the Comics Code Authority relaxed some of its longstanding rules regarding horror comics, such as a virtual ban on vampires. Marvel had already tested the waters with a "quasi-vampire" character, Morbius, the Living Vampire, but the company was now prepared to launch a regular vampire title as part of its new line of horror books. After some discussion, it was decided to use the Dracula character, in large part because it was the most famous vampire to the general public, and also because Bram Stoker's creation and secondary characters were by that time in the public domain.
The series suffered from lack of direction for its first year; most significantly, each of the first three issues was plotted by a different writer. Though Gerry Conway is credited as sole writer of issue #1, the plot was actually written by Roy Thomas and editor Stan Lee, and Conway had no input into the issue until it had already been fully drawn. Conway was allowed to plot issue #2 by himself, and wrote a story heavily influenced by the British Hammer Films - a striking departure from the first issue, which was derivative of Universal's monster movies. Conway then quit the book due to an overabundance of writing assignments, and was replaced by Archie Goodwin with issue #3. Goodwin quit after only two issues, but also made major changes to the series's direction, including the introduction of cast members Rachel Van Helsing and Taj Nital. New writer Gardner Fox took the series in yet another direction, and introduced a romance between Frank Drake and Rachel Van Helsing, which would remain a subplot for the rest of the series. However, Thomas (who had by this time succeeded Lee as the editor of The Tomb of Dracula) felt that Fox's take did not work, and took him off the book after only two issues.
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