The Tomb of Dracula
Tomb of Dracula ( title of the German first edition: The Tomb of Dracula ) is the title of a comic book series of the U.S. publisher Marvel. The title character is modeled on Dracula by Bram Stoker. The work comes from the authors Gerry Conway, Archie Goodwin, Gardner Fox and Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan and the Tom Palmer.
The figures Deacon Frost and Hannibal King from the series also appear in the Blade movies.
Content
Dracula was born in 1430 in Sighisoara, 1459 was a vampire when he was severely wounded in the Turkish invasion of Transylvania on the battlefield. The leader of the enemy army, Turac, Dracula took them to a gypsy to keep him alive; However, this gypsy was a vampire, for the Persecution of her people made Dracula into a being of power. Dracula later acquired by determining the atlantäischen magician Varnae dominion over all the vampires on earth.
End of the 19th century, he was (as in Bram Stoker's novel described ) be destroyed by the people who kept his remains in his coffin. Soon, however, it was revived in the 20th century and began his activity as a vampire. He will encounter include Rachel van Helsing, granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing, the. He also competes against the vampire hunter Blade, the X -Men and others. Finally, Dracula and all other vampires on earth by an unholy magic, the Montesi Formula, destroyed ( Doctor Strange # 62). However, Dracula was published in the 21st century back to the earth to carry out his plans of world domination of the Vampire ( Captain Britain and Mi- 13 # 9).
Publication
The comic series ran from April 1972 to August 1979 and comprises a total of 70 issues. The title was then, used for a short-lived comic magazine series, also published by Marvel, but then finally ceased in August 1980. The Team Wolfman and Colan left Marvel Comics Group a short time later and began working as the competition Publisher DC Comics. In the 1970s, the series in Germany under the title " The Tomb of Dracula " by the Hamburg Williams -Verlag, published later by Klaus right GmbH. From 1974 to 1976 published 33 four-color booklets. Issue number 5 was indexed by the " Federal Review Board Scriptures."
The Dracula figure in the series served as Marvel antagonist of superheroes, such as Blade and Spider Man, today she dives into this function in other rows.
Television Film
1980 produced the Japanese studio Toei Animation the anime television film Yami no Teio: Kyuketsuki Dracula (闇 の 帝王 吸血鬼 ドラキュラ, German " rulers of the darkness: vampire Dracula" ) to the comic series. Was directed by Akinori Nagaoka and Minoru Okazaki. The film was first broadcast on August 19, 1980 by the Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi. Later broadcasts followed in North America and Spain. The anime has also been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.