DRACULA (DELL COMICS)

This is the last of Dell's "adaptations" of Universal monster movies, this one titled "The Vampire's Curse". As with the others the plot varies greatly from the film and the characters have been renamed and except for one panel early on, Dracula himself doesn't show up until the last few pages. Still, it's a decent story.

No definite I.D.'s on the art, but it is thought that Max Elkin and Bob Jenney both had a hand in it. Could be that Elkin inked Jenney's pencils. The montage on page 18 certainly looks like a different artist than the rest of the book. If I had to make a guess on the front cover artist, I'd say it was the work of Vic Prezio, but others say it might be L.B. Cole, who was the book's editor.

Technically, there's one more issue containing Universal monsters adaptations in another one-shot: UNIVERSAL PRESENTS DRACULA - THE MUMMY & OTHER STORIES (No number, September-November 1963) which contains all reprints, including THE MUMMY and DRACULA adaptations, "Asphalt Test" and "The Long Wait" from TALES FROM THE TOMB #1 (One-shot, October 1962) and "The Black Stallion" from GHOST STORIES #1 ((September-November 1962).

DRACULA

No. 1

Dell Publishing Co. Inc. (Dell Comics)

October-December 1962

Editor: L.B. Cole

Cover: L.B. Cole? Vic Prezio?

Pages: 36

Cover price: 12 cents