The real Count Dracula came from Marvel
Thomas Sr. (Captain Collector)Last updated: 31 July 2020 approx. 2 min read
It's 1972. The year before, the rules of the censorship body, the Comics Code Authority, had been relaxed, and all kinds of horror characters were allowed back onto the colourful comic pages, above all vampires, werewolves and other cosy contemporaries. Nobody could stop the stormy, spooky seventies any more.
In the beginning was the vampire
While over here in the German-speaking part of Europe, horror novels and comics such as Gespenster Geschichten from Bastei and the series Horror from BSV were busily showering young people with spooky comics, Marvel in the USA was creating legendary comic series that have long since achieved cult status. One of these series was Tomb of Dracula, which ran to 70 issues between 1972 and 1979.
The title hero was Bram Stoker's Dracula, because the novel was in the public domain and Marvel didn't have to pay for the rights. That mattered, because Marvel's founder Martin Goodman had a reputation for not being particularly generous, and he was only too happy to help himself to subjects that cost him nothing.
In the first issues, Marvel didn't really know where the journey was headed. All sorts of things were tried, and a handful of writers had a go at the series. It only really picked up speed when Marv Wolfman took the helm with issue 7. Now nobody could stop the spooky count any more!
Gene “The Dean” Colan
What makes this horror series truly special is, of course, the feast for the eyes, and we owe that to Gene Colan, who drew all 70 issues. Most of them were inked by Tom Palmer, who formed an absolute dream team with Colan. Colan's model for Count Dracula was the actor Jack Palance, a giant of a man with angular features, a piercing gaze and a distinctive boxer's nose.
It's interesting that, visually, Gene Colan modelled him neither on Bela Lugosi nor on Christopher Lee, both actors who played Dracula in several films, but on Jack Palance. The result was a very special Dracula, Marvel's own in every respect, who could not be seen as a cheap copy. Something similar happened with the Frankenstein Monster, although there it was legal restrictions that prevented Marvel from recreating the monster of the Boris Karloff version.
The series was very successful and also made its way to Germany as a licensed comic, where from 1974 it wrote comic history for 33 issues at Williams. Tomb of Dracula, Die Gruft von Graf Dracula, is legendary to this day and, in my opinion, one of the best (the best?) horror comic series at Marvel.
Did you know that the year after the comic series started, Jack Palance actually played Count Dracula in a television production?
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