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Stoker’s Dracula          Sealed Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
Featuring the Marvel Adaptation of the Ultimate Dracula story… presented in Glorious Black & White.  Awesome!!
Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Dick Giordano
Letterers: Joe Rosen, V.C’s Chris Eliopuolos, V.C.’s Cory Petit & V.C.’s Rus Wooton
Editors: Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, Tony Isabella, Mark D. Beazley, Jennifer Grünwald, Michael Short & Joe Quesada
Dust Jacket Cover Art by: Dick Giordano

How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of latter-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of past events wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range of knowledge of those who made them.

30 years later, comics legends Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano reunite to at last complete their unfinished B&W ink-wash adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampire horror, Dracula! Originally serialized in Marvel horror magazines Vampire Tales and Legion of Monsters, their meticulous retelling of Bram Stoker’s tale of Gothic horror has been found in the Marvel tombs, and will at last be unleashed upon the daylight!

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Dracula 1897 Novel Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, visits Count Dracula at his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to help the Count purchase a house near London. Ignoring the Count’s warning, Harker wanders the castle and encounters three vampire women; Dracula rescues Harker, and gives the women a small child bound inside a bag. Harker awakens in bed; soon after, Dracula leaves the castle, abandoning him to the women; Harker escapes with his life and ends up delirious in a Budapest hospital. Dracula takes a ship for England with boxes of earth from his castle. The captain’s log narrates the crew’s disappearance until he alone remains, bound to the helm to maintain course. An animal resembling a large dog is seen leaping ashore when the ship runs aground at Whitby.

Lucy Westenra’s letter to her best friend, Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray, describes her marriage proposals from Dr. John Seward, Quincey Morris, and Arthur Holmwood. Lucy accepts Holmwood’s, but all remain friends. Mina joins her friend Lucy on holiday in Whitby. Lucy begins sleepwalking. After his ship lands there, Dracula stalks Lucy. Mina receives a letter about her missing fiancé’s illness, and goes to Budapest to nurse him. Lucy becomes very ill. Seward’s old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, determines the nature of Lucy’s condition, but refuses to disclose it. He diagnoses her with acute blood-loss. Van Helsing places garlic flowers around her room and makes her a necklace of them. Lucy’s mother removes the garlic flowers, not knowing they repel vampires. While Seward and Van Helsing are absent, Lucy and her mother are terrified by a wolf and Mrs. Westenra dies of a heart attack; Lucy dies shortly thereafter. After her burial, newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a “bloofer lady” (beautiful lady), and Van Helsing deduces it is Lucy. The four go to her tomb and see that she is a vampire. They stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic. Jonathan Harker and his now-wife Mina have returned, and they join the campaign against Dracula.

Everyone stays at Dr. Seward’s asylum as the men begin to hunt Dracula. Van Helsing finally reveals that vampires can only rest on earth from their homeland. Dracula communicates with Seward’s patient, Renfield, an insane man who eats vermin to absorb their life force. After Dracula learns of the group’s plot against him, he uses Renfield to enter the asylum. He secretly attacks Mina three times, drinking her blood each time and forcing Mina to drink his blood on the final visit. She is cursed to become a vampire after her death unless Dracula is killed. As the men find Dracula’s properties, they discover many earth boxes within. The vampire hunters open each of the boxes and seal wafers of sacramental bread inside them, rendering them useless to Dracula. They attempt to trap the Count in his Piccadilly house, but he escapes. They learn that Dracula is fleeing to his castle in Transylvania with his last box. Mina has a faint psychic connection to Dracula, which Van Helsing exploits via hypnosis to track Dracula’s movements. Guided by Mina, they pursue him.

In Galatz, Romania, the hunters split up. Van Helsing and Mina go to Dracula’s castle, where the professor destroys the vampire women. Jonathan Harker and Arthur Holmwood follow Dracula’s boat on the river, while Quincey Morris and John Seward parallel them on land. After Dracula’s box is finally loaded onto a wagon by Szgany men, the hunters converge and attack it. After routing the Szgany, Harker slashes Dracula’s neck and Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Szgany. He dies from his wounds, at peace with the knowledge that Mina is saved. A note by Jonathan Harker seven years later states that the Harkers have a son, named Quincey.

Hardcover reprints/collects: Stoker’s Dracula (2004 – 2005) Issues #1-4.  Marvel Comics

Sealed Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is bagged and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 2005
Format: BW, 216 pages, HC, 10.5″ x 6.95″
ISBN-10: 0785114777
ISBN-13: 9780785114772

Collectible Entertainment note: Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket is Brand New & Factory Sealed.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Dracula and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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