Wednesday, November 20, 2024

HOTW- Dracula

From Wiki- Dracula is a modern-day direct descendant of the original Count Dracula now working as a medical researcher in the old family castle in Transylvania. Due to his experiments to develop a cure for brain damage using a serum developed from bat blood, he accidentally gains strange "vampire"-like powers, including the ability to turn into a bat and superhuman sight and hearing. He decides to embark on a superhero career in order to redeem his family name, developing his body through diet and exercise to the peak of physical perfection and designing himself his own distinctive crimson-cowled purple costume with a bat-shaped gold belt buckle, after which he vows to fight evil and superstition in all its forms. Back to me:

I have never read any of these books, but I think they would have appealed to me as a kid.  It only last three issues, and I was not reading comic books in 1967.  Dell turned several other "monsters" into superheroes with similar luck.

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