Reading Room DRACULA "Story of the Stars"

A surreal 1970s sci-fi tale in a magazine called "Dracula"?

BTW, despite the magazine being called "Dracula", the legendary vampire only appears in one-page humor strips on the back cover!

The tale, written and illustrated by Jose M Bea was originally published in England in Dracula #11 (1972), a partworks magazine* by New English Library.

Some of the stories from this project made their American debut in Warren Publishing's HTF Dracula TPB in 1972 which reprinted #1-#6 of the British Dracula's run.
The remaining tales from #7-#12 (including this one) have never been published in the US.
*Partworks magazines are a limited series issued weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.
They usually run 12-24 issues for each volume.
When the final issue in a volume is published, the publishers offer a wraparound cover to make the complete set into a hardbound book. 
The buyer is offered the option to bind the magazines themselves or send the set to the publisher who professionally-binds the mags and sends the bound volume back to the customer.
This concept is extremely popular in Europe, but has never caught on in America, despite numerous attempts.

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Reading Room SIR LEO "Closed Room"

We celebrate the final adventure of the psychedelic Victorian monster-hunter...

...with the never-reprinted-in-America artwork from his sole cover appearance on NEL's Dracula #10 (1971)!

And now...on with the tale of terror...

So, Sir Leo's final opponent was...himself!

Appropriate, eh?

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Dracula

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

Reading Room SIR LEO "Mark of Death"

There's something inhuman lurking in London...

...and only psychedelic Victorian monster-hunter Sir Leo can deal with it!

Written and illustrated by Jose Bea and co-written by Luis Vigil, this tale from from Dracula #9 (1971) is a kool take on the "transforming human" trope popular in horror and sci-fi literature.

Even though it'll be after Halloween, we're presenting the remaining, never-published in the US, story of Sir Leo the first Tuesday of November!

Don't miss it!

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Dracula

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

Reading Room SIR LEO "Cat"

Another never-seen in America tale of the psychedelic Victorian monster hunter...

...from the Swinging 70s!

Written and illustrated by Jose Bea and co-written by Luis Vigil, this tale from from Dracula #8 (1971) answers a lot of things regarding cats that I (and, I'm sure, a lot of readers) wondered about.

We're presenting the remaining two stories of Sir Leo during October and November.

Don't miss them!

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Dracula

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

Reading Room SIR LEO "Sea of Blood"

We enter into uncharted waters...

...with the first of Sir Leo's never-published-in-America stories!

This tale from the British magazine Dracula #7 (1972)...which never had a story with the title character...was written by writer/artist Jose Bea and co-writer Luis Vigil.

We're presenting the remaining three stories of the psychedelic Victorian monster-hunter during October and November.

Don't miss them!

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Dracula

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

Reading Room SIR LEO "End of a Legend"

When Last We Left the Psychedelic Victorian Monster Hunter...

...Sir Leo Wooldrich encountered a Lovecraftian-type being lurking in the appropriately-named Black Lake...

This two-part tale from New English Library's Dracula #1 and; #2 by writer/artist Jose Bea and co-writer Luis Vigil was the only Sir Leo story published in Warren's HTF 1972 Dracula anthology which reprinted issues #1-6.

The series continued in #7 through #12, which have never been reprinted in the US, so most American fans have never seen them...unless they keep checking this blog, where we'll be re-presenting them during October.

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Dracula

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

Reading Room SIR LEO "Thing from the Lake"

Here's the first chapter in the saga of a Victorian-era monster hunter...

..produced for a Spanish partworks comic series in the early 1970s!

You'll find out if a lead projectile will stop the creature (and if it doesn't...what will?)...next Tuesday!

This first part of a two-part tale from Dracula #1 (1971) was co-written by Luis Vigil & Jose Bea, and illustrated by Bea.

The Sir Leo series was published irregularly in Dracula (1971), a 12-issue partworks magazine* by Great Britain's New English Library, the first two Sir Leo tales made their American debut in Warren Publishing's HTF Dracula TPB in 1972 which reprinted #1-#6 of the British Dracula's run.

The remaining tales from #7-#12 have never been published in the US...but you'll see them during this series!

*Partworks magazines are a limited series issued from weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.

They usually run 12-24 issues for each volume.

When the final issue in a volume is published, the publishers offer a wraparound cover to make the complete set into a hardbound book. 

The buyer is offered the option to bind the magazines themselves or send the set to the publisher who professionally-binds the mags and sends the bound volume back to the customer.

This concept is extremely popular in Europe, but has never caught on in America, despite numerous attempts.

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Dracula

the Trade Paperback

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

Reading Room: DRACULA "Invasion"

A surreal sci-fi tale in a magazine called "Dracula"?

BTW, despite the magazine being called "Dracula", the legendary vampire never appears in any of the stories!

The tale, written by Esteban Maroto and illustrated by Jose M Bea was originally published in England in Dracula #5 (1972), a partworks magazine* by New English Library.
It made it's American debut in Warren Publishing's HTF Dracula TPB in 1972 which reprinted #1-#6 of the British Dracula's run.

It also appeared as the cover-featured story in Warren's Eerie #75 (1976), but the tale itself was reprinted in black and white!

Besides reprinting the Dracula title (and numerous other previously-published stories) by writers and artists of the Spain-based studio Selleciones Illustrada, Warren Publishing commissioned new material from many of the creators, including both Maroto and Bea!

*Partworks magazines are a limited series issued weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.
They usually run 12-24 issues for each volume.
When the final issue in a volume is published, the publishers offer a wraparound cover to make the complete set into a hardbound book. 
The buyer is offered the option to bind the magazines themselves or send the set to the publisher who professionally-binds the mags and sends the bound volume back to the customer.
This concept is extremely popular in Europe, but has never caught on in America, despite numerous attempts.

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Comics Collectibles Store!