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Dracula Lives #1

Marvel · Series began 1973 · [May] 1973

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Bettina Kaposvar (Marvel) — first appearance

Dates

Cover date: [May] 1973
On sale: February 20, 1973
Pages: 76

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Boris Vallejo, Gene Colan, Alan Weiss, Tony DiPreta, Bill La Cava, Russ Heath, Rich Bucklerinks: Boris Vallejo, Tom Palmer, Dick Giordano, Tony DiPreta, Russ Heath, Pablo Marcoscolors: Boris Vallejoscript: Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, Stan Lee, Steve Gerberletters: Gaspar Saladino, Joe Rosen

Stories

A Poison of the Blood · 13 pages
Suffer Not a Witch... · 12 pages
Dracula Is Alive and Well and Living on Madison Avenue! · 1.5 pages
Zombie! · 6 pages
In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies. Also learning how to raise the dead he tricks Larson into meeting him in the grave yard and tries to raise a zombie to kill Larson. But to Blackie's horror, he has risen the zombie that Larson previously raised himself. Instead of following Blackie's orders, the zombie turns on his would be master, with Larson watching in glee at his enemies fate.
Ghost of a Chance! · 2 pages
A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost.
What Can You Say About a Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire Who Refuses to Die? · 6 pages
Fright! · 7 pages
A cruel asylum keeper is drugged by his assistant as he and the asylum keeper's wife wish to marry. The drug stupefies the man so the judge grants the divorce on grounds of madness and places him into the asylum where the inmates are glad to welcome him after being on the receiving end of so many beatings.
To Walk Again in Daylight! · 10 pages

Characters

DraculaBettina Kaposvar

Reprinted in

Essential Tomb of Dracula (2004), The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus (2008), Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection (2017), Dracula Lives (1974), Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas (2006), Essential Tales of the Zombie (2006), Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas (2019), Marvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula (2021)