Halloween Horror EERIE "Dracula!" Part Four/Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Vampire...

Dracula has made Lucy Seward a vampire!

Dr Van Helsing arrives, too late to save the poor girl, but not too late to send her tormented soul to the afterlife by staking her thru the heart.

Now, his attention turns to her master...Count Dracula!

Though there were a number of Frankenstein tales in the Golden Age, including Dick Briefer's long-running series, there were only a couple of appearances by our favorite vampire (usually a cameo) before this story in 1953!
The trend continued until the late 1960s when Dracula became a supporting character in the b/w Vampirella magazine.
In 1971, when the Comics Code was revised to allow vampires and other "traditional" monsters, the Count reappeared not only in short stories, but a long-running series from Marvel highlighted by moody art by Gene Colan.

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Halloween Horror EERIE "Dracula!" Part Three

When Last We Left Our Vampire...

Dracula traveled to England, where he made Lucy Seward his newest victim.

Meanwhile, Lucy's best friend, Mina Murray received news that her fiance Jonathan Harker had been hospitalized.

Rushing to Budapest, she discovers he is speedily recovering, and the two are married that day!

To be concluded...Next Wednesday!

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Halloween Horror EERIE "Dracula!" Part Two

 When Last We Left the Lord of Vampires...

Real estate agent Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London townhouse by a rich, reclusive nobleman...Count Dracula.

When he is molested by the count's wives, Harker discovers that they (and Dracula) are vampires, and that he is helpless to stop them!

Meanwhile, in England, Harker's fiance, Mina, worries...

But, will they have a honeymoon...or a funeral?

Be here next Wednesday to find out!

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Halloween Horror EERIE "Dracula!" Part One

 Did you know that Classics Illustrated adapted Frankenstein, but not Dracula?

However, there was an adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, published several years after the Classic Comics version of Mary Shelley's tale in the mid-1940s

It appeared in Avon Comics' Eerie #12 (1953), and was the only book-length story to appear in the title!

To the best of our knowledge, the story has never been reprinted, probably due to its' length!

What shall Johnathan Harker do?

Join us Next Wednesday for the frightening answer!

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CountDown to Halloween 2024 WEIRD TERROR "Wage-Earners" aka TALES OF VOODOO "Devil's Zombie"

There's lots of talk this election year about "job creators"!

But the wise politician (and everybody else) should worry about the ones on the other end of the food chain, as Henry Mason discovers...

This tawdry tale from Comic Media's Weird Horror #1 (1951) was illustrated by C A Winter.

The writer is unknown.

C A Winter aka Charles Allan Winter aka Chuck Winter was a major contributor to comics from 1939 to 1957, doing penciling and inking on several hundred stories in every genre from horror to sci-fi to funny animal at almost every company.

Before comics, he worked in advertising.
Though it couldn't be reprinted, due to the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, which had cracked down on such over-the-top material after the "Seduction of the Innocent" controversy of the 1950s, the script was re-used verbatim in a redrawn version for inclusion in a b/w magazine...where the Comics Code didn't apply!

Golden/Silver Age artist Dick Ayers rendered this story for Eerie Publications' b/w magazine Tales of Voodoo #8 (V3N3) in 1970, just before the Comics Code loosened up restrictions on various monsters and bloodletting in color comics...which would've permitted reprinting the original comic tale in a four-color comic book!

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CountDown to Halloween 2024 HORRIFIC "Jack the Ripper" aka WEIRD TERROR "Killing Spree" aka TERROR TALES "Ghoulish Feast"

Wait!

Doesn't the header read "Horrific"???

Yes, it does, but the story's first appearance, in Comic Media's Horrific #6 (1953) wasn't cover-featured...and the reprint in Comic Media's Weird Terror #13 (1954) was, with this kool Don Heck art!

Now, on with the tale...

Illustrated by Marty Elkin, this tale was reprinted in Weird Terror with a modified, retitled splash panel...

..but the rest of the story was unaltered!
In 1970, Eerie Publications took the script and had artist Antonio Reynoso redraw it!

If you're a horror literature aficionado, you might recognize the story as an unauthorized adaptation of the legendary Robert (Psycho) Bloch's story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper", which was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1943!

We'll be running the official comic adaptation, published in 1972, in November...

Join us next week as we present another tale your grandparents didn't want your parents to see!

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