Issue(s): Tomb of Dracula Magazine #3
Cover Date: Feb 80
Title: "And from order, there will come-- chaos!" / "Soul of an artist!"
Credits:
Marv Wolfman - Writer
Gene Colan - Penciler
Tom Palmer - Inker
Ralph Macchio - Associate Editor
Roy Thomas - Consulting Editor
Lynn Graeme & Marv Wolfman - Editor

Review/plot:
The acclaimed creative team of the original Tomb of Dracula series is back together for this issue, which builds off of an incident from their earlier run. The incident in question was Dracula biting a woman but getting interrupted from feeding on her by Rachel Van Helsing and Frank Drake.

After her attack from Dracula, Anna Reynolds had a problem with anemia and a sensitivity to sunlight, but she later recovered, remarried, and had another child. One day, though, that child began acting like she was in an exorcism story instead of a vampire story.

Dracula, meanwhile, begins to get weak, with no amount of blood satiating him.

He's also drawn to the child.

In fact, the child is able to control Dracula.

But, like in an exorcism story, the mother is able to reach the innocent child within through love.

The essence of Dracula that was in the child is returned to him, although he's knocked away by the force of it. The child is then restored to normal.

The majority of the story is actually watching Dracula go from victim to victim trying to fill his hunger before being drawn to the possessed child.

A second story in this magazine is by the same creative team, but instead of the usual narration panels and word balloons, the words are all in caption form. The story is about a painter that is corrupted and turned into a vampire by Dracula, and eventually kills herself in front of her agent.

Quality Rating: C+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• Anna Reynolds was bitten by Dracula in Tomb of Dracula #17.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Essential Tomb of Dracula vol. #3