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Dracula Lives #13
Issue(s): Dracula Lives #13
Cover Date: Jul 75
Title: "Bloody Mary"
Credits:
Rich Margopoulos - Writer
George Tuska - Penciler
Virgilio Redondo - Inker
Review/plot:
Between Dracula Lives #9 and this issue, all of the Dracula stories in Dracula Lives took place in the past. There were also Lilith stories (which were not included in my Essentials trade). This final issue of the series returns to the present with a story by Rich Margopoulos, a writer that did not do much for Marvel. He seems to have mostly done stuff in Creepy and Vampirella for Warren.
This story seems extra sad to me. It's about a woman that just can't get guys to like her.
What's wrong with this poor lady? She seems attractive enough, and we don't get to see a lot of her personality but she seems normal enough. Why doesn't anyone want to stay with her?
All we know is that she's into making avant-garde art...
...and comes across as clingy.
Anyway, Dracula does like her, at least at first, and he turns her into a vampire and they hang out for a while, doing vampire stuff.
But eventually Dracula gets sick of her too...
...so she impales herself on a stake.
Awwww!
Quality Rating: D
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Just for the sake of containing these standalone stories, i'm keeping all of the modern day appearances in Dracula Lives #4-13 between Tomb of Dracula #21-22.
References:
- No footnote, but Mary obviously reminds Dracula of Maria, from Dracula Lives #2.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: Essential Tomb of Dracula vol. 4
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Comments
Believe it or not, when Marvel revived Supernatural Thrillers as a recurring serial book rather than a series of one-shot stories, the starring feature was announced to be "The Victims of Dracula". I think this was hastily abandoned when someone at Marvel realized that this would give them 4 books with Dracula in the title, while their best-selling superhero, Spider-Man, only had 3 1/2(he had to share Marvel Team-Up with the Human Torch at the time), making Dracula the de facto Marvel Flagship Character. I think the "Victims" episodes later appeared in another b&w book(Monsters Unleashed?)
