Issue(s): Tomb of Dracula Magazine #4
Cover Date: Apr 80
Title: "Angelica"
Credits:
Roger McKenzie - Writer
Gene Colan - Penciler
Tom Palmer - Inker
Ralph Macchio - Associate Editor
Roy Thomas - Consulting Editor
Lynn Graeme - Editor

Review/plot:
Marv Wolfman is not involved in the Tomb of Dracula Magazine from this point on since at this point he had left for DC over conflicts with Editor in Chief Jim Shooter. This issue does have Gene Colan and Tom Palmer on art, but Roger McKenzie replaces Wolfman on story. Next issue, perhaps to compensate for Wolfman's absence, will dig deep into Tomb of Dracula continuity, but this issue goes in the opposite direction and has a completely standalone story. In fact, the story is mostly told in the past, except for a brief framing sequence.

The frame has a young girl who was crippled in an accident that also killed her father, and who is being visited by Dracula.

Dracula tells her stories that she writes in her diary. And the story we read is about another young girl that Dracula used to visit back when he was haunting a lighthouse. Dracula protects the girl from another vampire found in a shipwreck on the island; i believe he's actually the captain of the ship that brought Dracula here.

...and it turns out the previous lighthouse keeper had been turned into a vampire as well.

The weirdest thing is the child nudity in the story.

I didn't know Dracula was into that.

Dracula is eventually driven away by a crudely painted cross on the lighthouse light.

There's no resolution for the girl in the framing sequence.

Another story in this issue, also by Roger McKenzie but with art by John Buscema and Klaus Janson, takes place in 1823 and is therefore not part of my project.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Essential Tomb of Dracula vol. #3