Dracula (Dell Comics)
Dracula | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Dell Comics |
Format | Ongoing series |
Publication date | November 1966 – March 1967 |
No. of issues | 3 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Don Segall |
Artist(s) | Tony Tallarico |
Penciller(s) | Bill Fracchio |
Dracula is a
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).[2] In 1972–73, Dell reprinted the series, numbering them #6-8 (the reason for skipping issue #5 is unknown).[3]
Series background
Dracula is a modern-day direct descendant of the original
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
- ^ Fischer, Stuart (March 2018). "Those Unforgettable Super-Heroes of Dell & Gold Key". Alter Ego (151). TwoMorrows Publishing: 40.
- ISBN 9781605490731. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-59474-763-2.
External links
- Dracula's entry at International Catalog of Superheroes
- Dracula (1966) at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.