Among them are Rachel Van Helsing, Quincy Harker, Dracula’s own descendant Frank Drake, and even Blade, Marvel’s most notorious vampire hunter, who was first introduced in Tomb of Dracula #10. Brought back to life after decades spent as a skeleton in his tomb, Dracula faces a group of vampire hunters, most of them descendants of characters from Bram Stoker’s original novel. Marvel Comics’ own version of the world’s most famous vampire was introduced in 1972 by writer Gerry Conway and artist Gene Colan in the Tomb of Dracula ongoing series. Support CBH on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading!
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Most recently, since 2019, Dracula has become the leader of his own Vampire Nation, serving as an antagonist for the Avengers as well as Wolverine. But this started changing in the 2000s, when the Lord of the Vampires became a villain for the whole Marvel universe, encountering characters like Captain Britain, the X-Men, or even Deadpool. Count Dracula is presented as a villainous – although at time sympathetic – figure, sometimes fighting alongside the heroes, but always motivated by his hunger for blood and power.įor most of his initial series, Dracula stayed in his own part of the Marvel universe, very rarely crossing over with other titles, and mostly with similarly horrific or supernatural characters. The Tomb of Dracula became the most successful of Marvel’s 70s horror comics, telling the story of the continued struggle between a group of vampire hunters and the titular villain. But instead of Kirby-esque creatures from outer space like “Xemnu the Living Hulk” or “Groot from Planet X,” Marvel found its new monsters in literary and cinematographic icons such as Frankenstein’s monster, the Werewolf, and - most notable among them - Dracula. In the 1970s, after having spent more than a decade as a juggernaut of superhero comics, Marvel expanded their line in a new direction, going back to their 50s Atlas Comics tradition of horror and supernatural stories.
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