Tomb of Dracula was the first comic book I bought in the 1970s after a few years of no longer reading comic books. I got back into it in 1972 and was really into many comic books titles by 1973.
Great topic and fun video. Loved this Dracula run, particularly when Wolfman came on. ..can never get enough of Gene Colon's art. Back in the day, I never thought about how he was always carrying an unconscious woman. Dracula is half lurking creep on woman and half irresistible lothario, somehow, lol.
Cool vid, guys. I agree, Christopher Lee is my favorite Dracula as well. Marvel's Bronze Age monster comic book titles came about because of a revision of the CCA (Comics Code Authority) in 1971 which loosened restrictions including allowing the "classic" interpretations of vampires, werewolves, and ghouls. I love Tomb Of Dracula. I bought issues 40-70 off the rack back in the '70s, and I bought all of the earlier issues in the '80s out of long boxes at cons. I remember buying my #1 in high grade for $5 back around 1980. #10 was cheap in those days too, and I bought mine for a buck or two at a con. Also picked up the Giant-Size issues back in the day including the very cool Giant-Size Chillers #1 (1st Lilith). BTW, later in the series Gene Colan based the look of Marvel's Dracula on Jack Palance from Dan Curtis' Dracula. I believe Gene Colan was at his best doing supernatural characters like Dracula and Dr. Strange. I think the Tomb Of Dracula run is one of the very best in Horror comics history. I also love the Marvel B&W monster mags and Dracula Lives is one of the best of those. Some killer Neal Adams work there. Vampire Tales is also great (1st Satana in #2). That Legion Of Monsters 1-shot is a thing of beauty with the Neal Adams cover. I scored my monster mags several years ago when you could buy most of them in high grade for a buck apiece. Man, those days are gone. Most of that '70s stuff has gotten pricey of late, especially the monster books. Nice covers at the end there. Love the Ploog WBN issues. The cover of that Hulk #197 is by my favorite artist Bernie Wrightson, whom sadly we lost not long ago. Keep up the good work, guys.
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It was Quincy Harker- he wasn't Rachel Van Helsing's father but the man who brought her up when her parents were murdered by Drac and the character with his back showing on #13 was Taj Nital - Blade is stood next to him- other than that- thanks guys
Thanks for the correction. We don't rehearse before we shoot our videos & sometimes I say the wrong names. I guess that's a tendency of being a Geezer like myself. Good catch! Best regards from Wild Bill.
Marv Wolfman was superb to Tomb of Dracula which lead to the creation of Blade that was grand on his film in 1998. Hope the Tomb of Dracula gets a tv series.
If you like gene Colan, Batman and vampires you have to check out the early 80s storyline written by Gerry Conway and Paul Levitz in Batman and Detective Comics. Absolutely classic!
I think you mean Quincy Harker not Quincy Van Helsing. Quincy was the baby boy at the very end of the Dracula novel which takes place in the late 1800s.
He also appeared in Marvel's Werewolf by Night #15 with art by Mike Ploog. And in Monster of Frankenstein or Frankenstein #7 last page I believe. #8 & #9.
1970s comics were awesome. I just wish DC comics had done their version of Dracula in universe that was incontinuity like tube of Dracula is because I’m more of a DC fan but I love Marvel too and tomb of Dracula is just awesome so is werewolf by night at the living mommy
Hey, great video! But a minor correction - the studio did NOT turn down Legosi for Frankenstein - it was Legosi that turned the studio down. He thought the character was a grunting brute monster that lacked the poetry of Dracula. The role of course went to Boris Karloff, launching him to instant stardom. I think they had already been rivals, being from Hungary or the region, but this sparked a huge rivalry that grew to be bitter emnity, especially as Legosi's star faded. It's a famous bit of movie trivia, and was referenced in this scene from Ed Wood, where Martin Landau's Legosi calls Karloff a c***sucker and criticizes the limited character of Frankenstein: czcams.com/video/pVYPHx59JfA/video.html
Excelsior Comic Book Geezers! Great episode. Some of those issues look familiar, you wouldn't have picked some of those up at the Beacon flea market? More Wild Bill impersonations please.
In TOD #50, the battlre was stupid though. The SS is a cosmic god like being power wise. He should of simply zapped old fang face into dust. Or grabbed him dragged him out into space and straight into the sun's rays. POOF the end!
I always thought Dracula preyed on woman mostly because they were his biggest weakness as a mortal. He is in an eternal internal battle between his desire for the woman to want him, and his desire for the kill and/or blood. His natural talent to attract women was only magnified when he became a vampire, so its sort of blessing and a curse he has always had to deal with.....it sort of central to the vampire cliché, i believe, too. Enjoyed seeing all these great vintage books. Thanks guys.
I really enjoy your enthusiasm guys! This was my own period of comic interest & very nostalgic. It's taken patience to get the whole Tomb of Dracula set over the years (I'm content to have the very pricey #10 in reprint for now!), so I'm looking forward to a suitable time to do start a complete read through! Gulp! I have to point something out though. This was more of a review of the Tomb of Dracula COVERS than of the actual comics. Don't get me wrong. Those covers are a feast of cool art in themselves, but the result was that NONE of that Gene Colan internal art was shown, although you kept saying how good it was! (And it WAS!) The irony - after saying how great all those covers were (and they WERE!) - is that you never once mentioned the artist who did almost ALL of them! GIL KANE mostly, with a few by Neal Adams & Frank Brunner - great artists all! Most of your covers "damsels in distress" owe their life (untimely death?!) to Gil Kane's masterful hand! Credit where it's due folks! Also, the most talented inker I have ever encountered - TOM PALMER - not only kept his partnership with Gene Colan all the way through - a remarkable thing in those times - but it also looked like the "King of the Ink" did most of the covers for the entire series, over Kane & Co's pencils. Again, a rarity in those days! Gene Colan's art was so unusual that it was infamously difficult to find any Inker who could keep up with him! Witness the infamously awful semi-efforts of the Vince/Vinnie Coletta over Gene's Captain Marvel stint or, well, over anything really....(shudder!) Tom Palmer was the inker who could make even the most mediocre pencilling look GOOD, as they soon discovered! With Gene & Tom together - WOW! In Tom Palmer they struck pure GOLD!
True, many of those early covers were indeed Gil Kane, though Colan/Palmer started doing almost all the covers on issue 38 and going forward. Yes, sorry we didn't open up some, though I believe we might have on part 2 of this series, and certainly on our Gene Colan tribute episode. Thanks for watching!
marvel premiere 28 had their own legion of monsters issue. i know you don't care for frank robbins's art so you probably will not care for the issue. gene colan also did some excellent art on the sub-mariner in tales to astonish. atlas comics was started in the mid-70's after some people were passed over for promotions at marvel. i think stan lee's half/step/whatever brother larry leiber was one of them. atlas paid more per page to their artists than marvel or dc. i believe the artists also owned their work. the creators were given more control. however the venture was not successful and none of their titles went beyond issue 4. when drawing dracula in 1972 for tomb of dracula they based their dracula on actor jack palance. then, in 1974 palance actually played dracula in a made for tv movie produced by dan curtis.
Yeah, we covered that MP #28 on the show before. GREAT cover on that one, inside art disappointed a lot. Could have been one of the great monster teams ever!
Personally i love Frank Robbins art, especially on his own comic strips (Johnny Hazard). Marvel Premiere #28 was a rather forced attempt to get all their horror characters to meet in one story but the Robbin's artwork made it fun! Frank Robbins is one of those "Marmite" artists -people either seem to love his unique style or just hate it. He was very much of the old Milton Caniff school of comic strip technique, like Lee Elias & (originally), yes..... GENE COLAN! Like Gene, he also managed a similar long run on ONE Marvel title. In Frank Robbins case, of course it was the Invaders. Wonderfully talented gentlemen! Their work is inspiring!
@@michaelbrittain7445 oh, don't get me wrong. i KNOW those guys hate robbins style, but i myself love his work. when i first saw it over at dc in the shadow i really liked it. then a little later over at marvel on the invaders i didn't, but that was because vince collectta inked it. vinnie diluted everyone he inked for; including jack kirby! once they brought frank springer aboard on the inks robbins quickly became one of my very favorite comic book artists. the invaders is my all time favorite comic book series. i love the way robbins draws the sub-mariner, my all time favorite marvel character and my number 3 over all all time favorite character. he depicts submariner was huge ankle wings + a truly huge triangular shaped head + huge, very pointed ears. i love the way he draws the human torch. you could almost feel the heat coming off the flames. i also appreciate the way robbins draws the wings on cap's mask and cap's floppy buccaneer boots.
@@johnrunion5357 Amen! I know just what you mean! The Invaders series was a joy, eh? You could tell that Roy Thomas was having a ball too! I feel the same way about Coletta - see my entry at the top of the page! How that scratchy line of his used to spoil such great artists! Wouldn't it be marvellous to see all Gene Colan's Sub-Mariner artwork re-inked by Tom Palmer! The DIFFERENCE it would make! It's taken me a while (again!) to get the whole Invaders set but that's also waiting for a big read-through session sometime! It may take a week or so! have you ever found any of Frank Robbins "Johnny Hazard" newspaper strip stuff? You're in for a treat! He must have been getting on a bit when he did that Marvel work! Frank Robbins' Subby owed a lot more to Bill Everett's original than other artist's depiction. Hence the triangular head & arching eyebrows. Great stuff! Incidentally, it's taken me years to appreciate Bill Everett as an artist (& Subby's creator of course) but looking at the angles on his figurework in those last Sub-Mariners before he died...wow! I used to think only Gil Kane & Ross Andru, Neal Adams etc could do that kind of stuff....
@@michaelbrittain7445 yes, i read some of his johnny hazard material w-a-y back when. yes, bill everett drew subby the best. of course robbins based his incarnation of everett. at the time of the invaders, everett had passed and no one else at that time was drawing subby in that manner. i always loved everett's work. i place him at number 4 on my all time favorite comic book artist list. iloved his work through his career including those issues of sub-mariner's own died that he drew shortly before his passing. i really like tom palmer's inks as well; for whatever reason evidently a lot of others don't and i just don't get that.
A ver si alguien puede decir algo sobre lo siguiente. Cuando era adolescente compré un cómic de grapa que luego me desapareció y cuya historieta transcurría en un yate donde se celebraba una fiesta de disfraces. Aparecían en ella el auténtico Drácula y también Spiderman pero real. No recuerdo quién lo dibujaba, sólo que era en blanco y negro. ¿Podéis darme una pista? Gracias. Un saludo.
70s comics forever! Keep talking guys...Subbed!
Great video I used to love the tomb of Dracula back when I was an kid !
Love this book. Mature writing and amazing art from one of my very favourites, Gene The Dean.
Love your vids...70 horror comics are the best ever.
Tomb of Dracula was the first comic book I bought in the 1970s after a few years of no longer reading comic books. I got back into it in 1972 and was really into many comic books titles by 1973.
I thought he was a blind guy for a few minutes with those sunglasses.
Great topic and fun video. Loved this Dracula run, particularly when Wolfman came on. ..can never get enough of Gene Colon's art. Back in the day, I never thought about how he was always carrying an unconscious woman. Dracula is half lurking creep on woman and half irresistible lothario, somehow, lol.
Cool vid, guys. I agree, Christopher Lee is my favorite Dracula as well. Marvel's Bronze Age monster comic book titles came about because of a revision of the CCA (Comics Code Authority) in 1971 which loosened restrictions including allowing the "classic" interpretations of vampires, werewolves, and ghouls. I love Tomb Of Dracula. I bought issues 40-70 off the rack back in the '70s, and I bought all of the earlier issues in the '80s out of long boxes at cons. I remember buying my #1 in high grade for $5 back around 1980. #10 was cheap in those days too, and I bought mine for a buck or two at a con. Also picked up the Giant-Size issues back in the day including the very cool Giant-Size Chillers #1 (1st Lilith). BTW, later in the series Gene Colan based the look of Marvel's Dracula on Jack Palance from Dan Curtis' Dracula. I believe Gene Colan was at his best doing supernatural characters like Dracula and Dr. Strange. I think the Tomb Of Dracula run is one of the very best in Horror comics history. I also love the Marvel B&W monster mags and Dracula Lives is one of the best of those. Some killer Neal Adams work there. Vampire Tales is also great (1st Satana in #2). That Legion Of Monsters 1-shot is a thing of beauty with the Neal Adams cover. I scored my monster mags several years ago when you could buy most of them in high grade for a buck apiece. Man, those days are gone. Most of that '70s stuff has gotten pricey of late, especially the monster books. Nice covers at the end there. Love the Ploog WBN issues. The cover of that Hulk #197 is by my favorite artist Bernie Wrightson, whom sadly we lost not long ago. Keep up the good work, guys.
Thanks for the kind words Michael!
thanks for the great feedback! Please subscribe and recommend us to your friends-we have some great episodes coming up on Werewolf By Night, Man-Thing, Frankenstein, and other horror comics to help celebrate the Halloween season! Enjoy!
Blade first appeared in TOD #10. Both Luke Cage Hero for Hire / Powerman & Blade were SHAFT knock offs.
Great vid . Great info. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it Leonard! We also did a part 2 of the ToD series, which you can find in our Horror playlist.
great video!
It was Quincy Harker- he wasn't Rachel Van Helsing's father but the man who brought her up when her parents were murdered by Drac and the character with his back showing on #13 was Taj Nital - Blade is stood next to him- other than that- thanks guys
Thanks for the correction. We don't rehearse before we shoot our videos & sometimes I say the wrong names. I guess that's a tendency of being a Geezer like myself. Good catch! Best regards from Wild Bill.
Marv Wolfman was superb to Tomb of Dracula which lead to the creation of Blade that was grand on his film in 1998.
Hope the Tomb of Dracula gets a tv series.
I used to have almost all the series from back in the day 🤼🙂🤑😎... great comic. Btw, great show. Keep on keeping on😎👍🖤!!!
If you like gene Colan, Batman and vampires you have to check out the early 80s storyline written by Gerry Conway and Paul Levitz in Batman and Detective Comics. Absolutely classic!
Wish y'all still made vids....I enjoyed the couple i watch already
Still make videos? Dude, we post them every week!!! We aren't going anywhere. Plenty of new ones here on the channel, and more coming this week.
You guys are making me want to rush out and find these books.
He also was in Dr.Strange #44.
Gene Colan was also Marvel's number 1 Romance comics artist
All the horror and martial arts stuff Marvel used to do came as a surprise to me. I've got a whole lot of stuff to be getting into now.
We are plotting a Master of Kung Fu and Iron Fist episode-stay tuned!
I think you mean Quincy Harker not Quincy Van Helsing. Quincy was the baby boy at the very end of the Dracula novel which takes place in the late 1800s.
Great episode, love the horror covers.
He also appeared in Marvel's Werewolf by Night #15 with art by Mike Ploog. And in Monster of Frankenstein or Frankenstein #7 last page I believe. #8 & #9.
1970s comics were awesome. I just wish DC comics had done their version of Dracula in universe that was incontinuity like tube of Dracula is because I’m more of a DC fan but I love Marvel too and tomb of Dracula is just awesome so is werewolf by night at the living mommy
Hey, great video! But a minor correction - the studio did NOT turn down Legosi for Frankenstein - it was Legosi that turned the studio down. He thought the character was a grunting brute monster that lacked the poetry of Dracula. The role of course went to Boris Karloff, launching him to instant stardom. I think they had already been rivals, being from Hungary or the region, but this sparked a huge rivalry that grew to be bitter emnity, especially as Legosi's star faded. It's a famous bit of movie trivia, and was referenced in this scene from Ed Wood, where Martin Landau's Legosi calls Karloff a c***sucker and criticizes the limited character of Frankenstein:
czcams.com/video/pVYPHx59JfA/video.html
Excelsior Comic Book Geezers! Great episode. Some of those issues look familiar, you wouldn't have picked some of those up at the Beacon flea market? More Wild Bill impersonations please.
Didn't the Silver Surfer appear in the Dracula too?
He certainly does! Check out our Part 2 of the Tomb of Dracula series!
In TOD #50, the battlre was stupid though. The SS is a cosmic god like being power wise. He should of simply zapped old fang face into dust. Or grabbed him dragged him out into space and straight into the sun's rays. POOF the end!
I always thought Dracula preyed on woman mostly because they were his biggest weakness as a mortal. He is in an eternal internal battle between his desire for the woman to want him, and his desire for the kill and/or blood. His natural talent to attract women was only magnified when he became a vampire, so its sort of blessing and a curse he has always had to deal with.....it sort of central to the vampire cliché, i believe, too.
Enjoyed seeing all these great vintage books. Thanks guys.
AS64...one of the absolute best covers!
I got a bunch of these. Still trying to complete the set tho
I have to get VAMPIRE TALES.
Working on a dracula run this year. Sure is fun. It's nice you guys got a 1 they're going up a bit. Hopefully I can get a good deal on a 10 this year.
What's the consensus on the '91 four-issue mini series where Marv Wolfman & Gene Colan reunited?
I really enjoy your enthusiasm guys!
This was my own period of comic interest & very nostalgic.
It's taken patience to get the whole Tomb of Dracula set over the years (I'm content to have the very pricey #10 in reprint for now!), so I'm looking forward to a suitable time to do start a complete read through! Gulp!
I have to point something out though.
This was more of a review of the Tomb of Dracula COVERS than of the actual comics.
Don't get me wrong. Those covers are a feast of cool art in themselves, but the result was that NONE of that Gene Colan internal art was shown, although you kept saying how good it was! (And it WAS!)
The irony - after saying how great all those covers were (and they WERE!) - is that you never once mentioned the artist who did almost ALL of them!
GIL KANE mostly, with a few by Neal Adams & Frank Brunner - great artists all!
Most of your covers "damsels in distress" owe their life (untimely death?!) to Gil Kane's masterful hand!
Credit where it's due folks!
Also, the most talented inker I have ever encountered - TOM PALMER - not only kept his partnership with Gene Colan all the way through - a remarkable thing in those times - but it also looked like the "King of the Ink" did most of the covers for the entire series, over Kane & Co's pencils. Again, a rarity in those days!
Gene Colan's art was so unusual that it was infamously difficult to find any Inker who could keep up with him! Witness the infamously awful semi-efforts of the Vince/Vinnie Coletta over Gene's Captain Marvel stint or, well, over anything really....(shudder!)
Tom Palmer was the inker who could make even the most mediocre pencilling look GOOD, as they soon discovered! With Gene & Tom together - WOW!
In Tom Palmer they struck pure GOLD!
True, many of those early covers were indeed Gil Kane, though Colan/Palmer started doing almost all the covers on issue 38 and going forward. Yes, sorry we didn't open up some, though I believe we might have on part 2 of this series, and certainly on our Gene Colan tribute episode. Thanks for watching!
70 issues plus GS issues. And guest appearances, Dracula Lives B & W magazine lasted like 11 issues.
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marvel premiere 28 had their own legion of monsters issue. i know you don't care for frank robbins's art so you probably will not care for the issue. gene colan also did some excellent art on the sub-mariner in tales to astonish. atlas comics was started in the mid-70's after some people were passed over for promotions at marvel. i think stan lee's half/step/whatever brother larry leiber was one of them. atlas paid more per page to their artists than marvel or dc. i believe the artists also owned their work. the creators were given more control. however the venture was not successful and none of their titles went beyond issue 4. when drawing dracula in 1972 for tomb of dracula they based their dracula on actor jack palance. then, in 1974 palance actually played dracula in a made for tv movie produced by dan curtis.
Yeah, we covered that MP #28 on the show before. GREAT cover on that one, inside art disappointed a lot. Could have been one of the great monster teams ever!
Personally i love Frank Robbins art, especially on his own comic strips (Johnny Hazard). Marvel Premiere #28 was a rather forced attempt to get all their horror characters to meet in one story but the Robbin's artwork made it fun!
Frank Robbins is one of those "Marmite" artists -people either seem to love his unique style or just hate it. He was very much of the old Milton Caniff school of comic strip technique, like Lee Elias & (originally), yes..... GENE COLAN!
Like Gene, he also managed a similar long run on ONE Marvel title. In Frank Robbins case, of course it was the Invaders.
Wonderfully talented gentlemen! Their work is inspiring!
@@michaelbrittain7445 oh, don't get me wrong. i KNOW those guys hate robbins style, but i myself love his work. when i first saw it over at dc in the shadow i really liked it. then a little later over at marvel on the invaders i didn't, but that was because vince collectta inked it. vinnie diluted everyone he inked for; including jack kirby! once they brought frank springer aboard on the inks robbins quickly became one of my very favorite comic book artists. the invaders is my all time favorite comic book series. i love the way robbins draws the sub-mariner, my all time favorite marvel character and my number 3 over all all time favorite character. he depicts submariner was huge ankle wings + a truly huge triangular shaped head + huge, very pointed ears. i love the way he draws the human torch. you could almost feel the heat coming off the flames. i also appreciate the way robbins draws the wings on cap's mask and cap's floppy buccaneer boots.
@@johnrunion5357 Amen! I know just what you mean!
The Invaders series was a joy, eh?
You could tell that Roy Thomas was having a ball too!
I feel the same way about Coletta - see my entry at the top of the page!
How that scratchy line of his used to spoil such great artists!
Wouldn't it be marvellous to see all Gene Colan's Sub-Mariner artwork re-inked by Tom Palmer! The DIFFERENCE it would make!
It's taken me a while (again!) to get the whole Invaders set but that's also waiting for a big read-through session sometime! It may take a week or so!
have you ever found any of Frank Robbins "Johnny Hazard" newspaper strip stuff? You're in for a treat!
He must have been getting on a bit when he did that Marvel work!
Frank Robbins' Subby owed a lot more to Bill Everett's original than other artist's depiction. Hence the triangular head & arching eyebrows. Great stuff!
Incidentally, it's taken me years to appreciate Bill Everett as an artist (& Subby's creator of course) but looking at the angles on his figurework in those last Sub-Mariners before he died...wow! I used to think only Gil Kane & Ross Andru, Neal Adams etc could do that kind of stuff....
@@michaelbrittain7445 yes, i read some of his johnny hazard material w-a-y back when. yes, bill everett drew subby the best. of course robbins based his incarnation of everett. at the time of the invaders, everett had passed and no one else at that time was drawing subby in that manner. i always loved everett's work. i place him at number 4 on my all time favorite comic book artist list. iloved his work through his career including those issues of sub-mariner's own died that he drew shortly before his passing. i really like tom palmer's inks as well; for whatever reason evidently a lot of others don't and i just don't get that.
A ver si alguien puede decir algo sobre lo siguiente. Cuando era adolescente compré un cómic de grapa que luego me desapareció y cuya historieta transcurría en un yate donde se celebraba una fiesta de disfraces. Aparecían en ella el auténtico Drácula y también Spiderman pero real. No recuerdo quién lo dibujaba, sólo que era en blanco y negro. ¿Podéis darme una pista?
Gracias. Un saludo.
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@@jockmctodger ¿Si alguien sabe de qué cómic se trata: Spiderman se enfrenta a Drácula durante una fiesta de disfraces que transcurre en un yate?
... you forgot Tom Palmer: with out him AND Gene Colan, this comic would've tanked.
Bram Stoker (Brahm Stoker) not Stroker