Dracula (Dell Comics)

Dracula (Dell Comics)
Dracula
DraculaDell2.jpg
Cover to Issue #2.
Publication information
Publisher Dell Comics
Format Ongoing series
Publication date November 1966-March 1967
Number of issues 3
Creative team
Writer(s) Don Segall
Artist(s) Tony Tallarico
Penciller(s) Bill Fracchio

Dracula is a superhero comic book series published by Dell Comics, based on the three classic Universal Pictures monsters (The other two titles were Frankenstein and Werewolf).

Contents

Publication history

Dracula lasted 3 issues from 1966 through 1967, numbered 2 through 4. (#1, published in 1962, was an adaptation of the 1931 film). In 1972-73, Dell reprinted the series, numbering them #6-8 (the reason for skipping issue #5 is unknown).

Series background

Dracula is a modern day direct descendant of the original Count Dracula now working as a medical researcher in the old family castle in Transylvania where, due to his experiments to develop a cure for brain damage using a serum developed from bat blood, he accidentally gains strange "vampire"-like powers including the ability to turn into a bat and superhuman sight and hearing. He decides to embark on a superhero career in order to redeem his family name, developing his body through diet and exercise to the peak of physical perfection and designing himself his own distinctive crimson-cowled purple costume with a bat-shaped gold belt buckle, after which he vows to fight evil and superstition in all its forms.

Leaving for America after the local peasants burn down his castle, he adopts the secret identity of "Al U. Card" (a hastily chosen pseudonym short for "Aloyisius Ulysses Card"). In issue #4, his girlfriend and confidante, blond socialite B.B. Beebe, gains the same powers and became his blue-clad sidekick Fleeta (from "fledermaus", the German word for bat), bringing to the team not only a black belt in judo but also an abandoned hidden underground government radar installation/bomb shelter on her family's mountain estate that Dracula uses as his secret laboratory lair.

Dracula's Oath

"I pledge by the strange powers which have become mine to fight against the injustice, corruption, evil and greed which fills this Earth in the hopes that somehow my example will be an example to all men."

References


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Characters of Dracula
Other Dracula novels
Anno Dracula series (1992–present) • Dracula the Undead (1997) • The Historian (2005) • Bloodline (2005) • Fangland (2007) • Dracula the Un-dead (2009)
Stage adaptations
Dracula (1924) • Dracula, a Musical Nightmare (1974) • Dracula (1980) • Dracula: The Musical (1982) • Dracula (1995) • Dracula (Czech musical) (1995) • Dracula (1996) • Dracula: A Chamber Musical (1997) • Dracula, the Musical (2004) • Dracula – Entre l'amour et la mort (2006) • Dracula: the Musical (2010)
Film adaptations
Nosferatu (1922) • Dracula (1931) • Drácula (1931 Spanish version) • Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) • Dracula (1958) • Dracula (1968) • Count Dracula (1970) • Dracula (1973) • Count Dracula (1977) • Dracula (1979) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) • Dracula (1992) • Dracula (2002) • Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) • Dracula (2006) • Dracula 3D (2012)
Other films
Dracula 2000
Parodies
Blacula (1972) • Blood for Dracula (1974) • Love at First Bite (1979) • Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) • The Monster Squad (1987) • Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) • Monster Mash (1995) • Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Others
Dracula's Death (1923) • Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) • Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) • Vampyros Lesbos (1971) • Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978) • Shadow of the Vampire (2000) • "Buffy vs. Dracula" (2000) • Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2002) • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) • Van Helsing (2004) • Blade: Trinity (2004) • Dracula 3000 (2004) • The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
Comics
The Tomb of Dracula • Dracula (Marvel Comics) • Dracula (Dell Comics) • Hellsing • Sword of Dracula • Batman & Dracula: Red Rain
Video games
The Count (game) • Castlevania series (1986–present) (Dracula (Castlevania)) • Dracula (1986) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993) • Dracula Unleashed (1993) • Dracula: Resurrection (1999) • Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000) • Van Helsing (2004) • Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) • Dracula: Origin (2008)
Pinball machines
Dracula (1979) • Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)
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