Monday, September 29, 2014
Vampires Drink Deep!
Finishing out the month in gorgeously moody black and white (and a splash of red), this time with a morbid Marvel mag reprint from Dracula Lives! #2 (1973), awesome art by Joe Sinnott --originally featured in the August 1952 issue of Strange Tales #9. Note the Atlas version of this story was titled "Drink Deep, Vampire!"
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(Thanks to Brian Barnes for the generous donation of this mag to my collection too!)
No problem, you are one of the bright spots in the general narcissistic nature of current blogs :)
The art here is just gorgeous, and it's nice to see it rescued from the coloring, though Atlas was usually very good at it. The only problem (checking my masterworks edition) is that it's really bright and primary colored. It's what they had back then so there's not a lot to knock, but it's nice in B&W.
It looks like they added a lot of zip-a-tone to it, though, and some of it probably wasn't helping.
This is a well played as-it-turns-out story.
Now that's how you do a black and white reprint! What beautiful spot color. Though I think I'd probably prefer the original rainbow-colored pre-code version, Sinnott's stuff is so bold that it really works well both ways. That is such a beautiful cemetery. Thanks Karswell, and happy October first!
I've never owned any issue of DRACULA LIVES, but I've been curious about this story since seeing excerpts of it on the site "Marvel University" several months ago, so I'm glad to see the whole thing.
The funny thing is, selling people their own goods is a famous kind of scam, but this might be the only time it's been used in a supernatural story. Probably the only time I know of, at least.
I highly recommend any of the 70's black and white Marvel horror mags, they usually contain golden age Atlas reprints, as well as superbly illustrated new material too.
Thanks for the comments, lots more on the way for October!
Fantastic Sinnott art! Watch out, Al Feldstein.
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