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Bram Stoker’s Dracula                 Sealed Comics Lot
Featuring the Comic Adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Horror Movie. 
Includes “Dracula” Trading Cards with every issue.  Awesome!!
Story by: Bram Stoker
Adaptation by: Roy Thomas
Artist: Mike Mignola
Inker: John Nyberg
Colorist: Mark Chiarello
Letterer: John Costanza
Editor: Jim Salicrup
All Covers by: Mike Mignola

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola with a screenplay by James V. Hart based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The movie stars Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel. Young barrister Jonathan Harker is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s friends and Van Helsing gather together to try to defeat Dracula.

This four-issue mini-series contains the official comics adaptation of the Francis Ford Coppola film, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Scripted by comics legend Roy Thomas, with art by the stylistically dark Mike Mignola, the Coppola version of Dracula follows the Bram Stoker original more closely than earlier film versions of the tale. Each issue may also contain an “Inside Coppola’s Dracula” special feature with essays and photos related to the movie. Includes “Dracula” Trading Cards with every issue. Awesome!!

Now, Topps Comics presents, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Vlad Dracula began life as a vicious and brutal Romanian prince who drove 30,000 Turks from Constantinople in the name of the church in 1462. But when his wife’s suicide forever damned her, he renounced God. Hundreds of years later, in1897, a mysterious Count Dracula drew a young, ambitious lawyer named Jonathan Harker to a castle in Transylvania. If Harker can survive the strange creatures that inhabit the castle, he will return to Mina, his true love in London. However, Dracula is bound for London as well…

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
In 1462, Vlad Dracula returns from a victory in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire to find his wife Elisabeta committed suicide after his enemies falsely reported his death. A priest tells him that his wife’s soul is damned to Hell for committing suicide. Enraged, Vlad desecrates the chapel and renounces God, declaring he will rise from the grave to avenge Elisabeta with all the powers of darkness. He then drives his sword into the chapel’s stone cross and drinks the blood that pours from it, becoming a vampire.

In 1897, solicitor Jonathan Harker takes the Transylvanian Count Dracula as a client from his colleague R.M. Renfield, who has gone insane and is now an inmate in Dr. Jack Seward’s insane asylum. Jonathan travels to Transylvania to arrange Dracula’s real estate acquisitions in London. Jonathan meets Dracula who finds a picture of his fiancée Mina Murray and believes she is the reincarnation of Elisabeta. Dracula leaves Jonathan to be fed upon by his brides, while he sails to England with Transylvanian soil, taking up residence at Carfax Abbey.

In London, Dracula hypnotically seduces, then bites Mina’s best friend Lucy Westenra, with whom she is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy’s deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompt former suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward, along with her fiancé Arthur Holmwood to summon Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, Seward’s mentor, who recognizes Lucy as the victim of a vampire. Dracula, appearing young and handsome during daylight, meets and charms Mina. Mina begins to develop feelings for Dracula, accompanying him on several outings. When Mina finally receives word from Jonathan — who has escaped the castle and recovered at a convent — she travels to Romania to marry him. Upon learning this, a heartbroken Dracula transforms Lucy into a vampire. Van Helsing, Holmwood, Seward and Morris kill and behead the undead Lucy the following night.

After he and Mina return to London, Jonathan and Van Helsing lead the others to Carfax Abbey, where they destroy the Count’s boxes of soil. Dracula enters the asylum and kills Renfield for warning Mina of his presence. He visits Mina, who is staying in Seward’s quarters, and confesses that he murdered Lucy and has been terrorizing Mina’s friends. Though furious at first, Mina admits that she still loves him and remembers Elisabeta’s previous life; at her insistence, Dracula begins transforming her into a vampire. The hunters burst into the bedroom, and Dracula claims Mina as his bride before escaping. As Mina changes, Van Helsing hypnotizes her and learns via her connection with Dracula that he is sailing home in his last remaining box. The hunters depart for Varna to intercept him, but Dracula reads Mina’s mind and evades them. The hunters split up; Van Helsing and Mina travel to the Borgo Pass and the castle, while the others try to stop the gypsies transporting Dracula.

At night, Van Helsing and Mina are approached by Dracula’s brides. Mina succumbs to their chanting and attempts to seduce Van Helsing. Before Mina can feed on his blood, Van Helsing places a communion wafer on her forehead, leaving a mark. He surrounds them with a ring of fire to protect them from the brides, then kills them the following morning. Dracula’s carriage arrives at the castle, pursued by the hunters. A fight between the hunters and gypsies ensues. Morris is stabbed in the back and Dracula bursts from his coffin at sunset. Jonathan slits his throat with a kukri knife while Morris stabs him in the heart. As Dracula staggers, Mina rushes to his defense. Van Helsing and Jonathan allow her to retreat with the Count. Morris dies from his wound, surrounded by his friends.

In the chapel where he renounced God, Dracula lies dying in an ancient demonic form; he and Mina share a kiss as the candles adorning the chapel light up and the cross repairs itself. Dracula reverts to his younger self and asks Mina to give him peace. Mina thrusts the knife through his heart and as he dies, the mark on her forehead disappears. She then decapitates him and gazes up at a fresco of Vlad and Elisabeta, finally reunited and ascending to Heaven together.

Comics lot contains: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Issues #1-4.  Topps Comics

Sealed Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Topps Comics
Publication Date: 1992
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4 are Brand New & Poly-Sealed.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Dracula and/or Movie Adaptation collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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