(December 1974)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-09-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #110, September 1974.
Slow Death on the Killing Ground!
Dracula / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dracula
- Reprints
-
in Corriere della Paura Presenta Dracula (Editoriale Corno, 1976 series) #13 -
in Die Gruft von Dracula (Panini Deutschland, 2003 series) #6 - in Marvel Horror (Panini Deutschland, 2003 series) #[6] - Die Gruft von Dracula 6
-
in Chiller Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #3 (1980) [recolored] -
in Essential Tomb of Dracula (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2004) [black and white] - in The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #3 (2019), #3 (2019)
-
Slow Death on the Killing Ground!
Dracula / comic story / 30 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont (credited)
- Pencils
- Don Heck (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Springer (credited as F. Springer)
- Colors
- Linda Lessmann (credited as L. Lessmann)
- Letters
- Ray Holloway (credited as R. Holloway)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mistress, the men are ready!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Inspector Chelm; Dracula; Detective Inspector Kate Fraser; Quincy Harker; Elianne Turac (introduction, death, also in flashback); Lord Turac (death in flashback); Stefan (introduction, death); Aron (death in flashback); Thomas Hare (death); Jan (death); Reuger (death); Toby; Ruth Caulderon; Dr. Forrest Kelly
- Reprints
-
in L'Insolite (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #1 (février 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Essential Tomb of Dracula (Marvel, 2004 series) #2 (2004) [black and white]
- in The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #3 (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story in two chapters: Slow Death on the Killing Ground (15 pages), Chapter 2: Is This the Night the Vampire Dies! (15 pages). Between Dracula Lives! (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 and Tomb of Dracula (Marvel, 1972 series) #31.
Notes and News on a Nestful of Nebbishes!
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Tomes to the Tomb! / letters page / 2 pages
- Characters
- Dracula
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Anne Gray, Neal Meyer, Larry Shark, Steven Scheibner, David Gordon Bowman, and Jacqueline Ann Lee.
I Was a Vampire
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire falls in love with a woman and so takes a serum that can cure vampirism, but on their wedding night, his bride reveals herself to be a vampire.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #6 (March 1953)
-
The Wedding Present
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman
- Inks
- Paul Reinman
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a man cheats a Voodoo practitioner out of his money for a love potion, he and the object of his affection are turned into wedding cake ornaments.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #22 (May 1954)
-
The Mark of the Vampire!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mac L. Pakula
- Inks
- Mac L. Pakula
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man kills the vampire plaguing his town, his brother, but not before the brother passes the curse along to him.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #22 (May 1954)
-
The Man Who Changed
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Sid Greene
- Inks
- Sid Greene
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A beautiful woman who loves her ugly husband has her face deformed through surgery just as he is having his face made handsome by a plastic surgeon.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #6 (March 1953)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Slow Death on the Killing Ground!
Dracula -
1.
Slow Death on the Killing Ground!
Dracula -
2.
Bullpen Bonus Page! (What Else?)
Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
Notes and News on a Nestful of Nebbishes!
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox -
4.
[no title indexed]
Tomes to the Tomb! -
5.
I Was a Vampire
-
6.
The Wedding Present
-
7.
The Mark of the Vampire!
-
8.
The Man Who Changed
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Denys Howard
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.