Monday Madness / CoronaVirus Comics DRACULA COMICS "Invasion"

Covid-19 isn't the only virus afflicting mankind...

...as this rather bizarre feature demonstrates!

Kool, eh?

Written by Estaban Maroto (who's better-known as an illustrator) and depicted by Jose Bea, this tale from New English Library's Dracula Magazine V1N5 (1972) originally appeared, in Spanish, in Buru Lan's Drácula V1N5 (1971)!

It was then published in America by Warren Publications in a trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Dracula Magazine and as a standalone tale in color insert sections of the publisher's usually-all b/w magazines!

So older fans will probably remember it from several different places during the early 1970s!

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

(from 1971, featuring the first six issues of the translated-from-Spanish Dracula magazine!)

Friday Fun "Whatever happened to Carmelita Rodriguez?"

The innocent victim of Dracula vs Zorro reappeared in Topps' Zorro #9 (1994)...

...but writer Don McGregor's plans for her future apperances were disrupted by the book's cancellation two issues later!

However, a Zorro spin-off title, Lady Rawhide, kept going as a line of mini-series, and Carmelita became one of the protaganists of the 1996-97 mini-series Other People's Blood...

...first as a victim requiring rescue by the heroine...

...then as the one who rescues the heroine...

...though that's not readily apparent by the cover art!

Sadly, this is as much of this reprinted (in 1999) tale I'm going to re-present, but you can order it below...

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Lady Rawhide: Other People's Blood

the Mini-Series

Reading Room TOMB OF THE GODS "Horus"

The 1970s was a time of experimentation in comics...

Art by Enrich

...and one of the more interesting strips appeared in the back of Warren's b/w magazine Vampirella, beginning with this cover-featured tale...which may be NSFW...

Written and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, the strip played with a number of mythological characters from various pantheons, offering twists on the long-established legends.

This premiere tale appeared in Warren's Vampirella #17 (1972) with other Tomb of the Gods entries appearing irregularly until #23.

Cover Gallery: DRACULA CHRONICLES

When Marvel reintroduced Dracula as a major character in the mid 1990s...

 ...Topps took one last shot at the character, reprinting their poor-selling 1992 Vlad the Impaler mini-series (which we've been re-presenting on this blog for the past couple of weeks) as Dracula Chronicles with new covers by Joseph Linsner.

It didn't sell any better, and with the phenomenal success of X-Files, Dracula was dropped from Topps' roster.

BTW, for other comic book versions of the legendary vampire, check out...

Dracula the 1960s SuperHero!

and

The first comic adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel!

Reading Room VLAD THE IMPALER "To Rise Again" Conclusion

When Last We Left Vlad the Impaler, he was dead for over a century...

...but, as the cover for Topps' Vlad the Impaler #3 (1993) shows, that's about to change...

It's kool how writer Roy Thomas and artist Esteban Maroto explain why the "historical" Dracula, who's still in his tomb, looks different from the many "vampiric" pop culture incarnations!

BTW, for other comic book versions of the legendary vampire, check out...

Dracula the 1960s SuperHero!

and

The first comic adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel!