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Issue: Giant-Size Dracula #5
Publication Date: June 1975
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Issues: #5 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 03/18/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #116.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula #4 [unnamed variant] published January 2024
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The Fine Art of Dying!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Tomb of Dracula #2 published January 2004
as The Fine Art of Dying! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #2 published December 2009
as The Fine Art Of Dying! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Art of Dying!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Field Operator Six; Duval (death); Polcary Evanns (death); Eleanor; Aaron Schmidt (death); Walter (death); Father Wetzel
First Line: A month ago, I loved the night. It was my passion...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Tomb of Dracula #2 published January 2004
as The Art of Dying! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #2 published December 2009
as The Art Of Dying! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Date: 1930's.
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A Cacophonous Collection of Captivating Capsule Comments Calculated to Corral Your Consciousness!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items.
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The Trap!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: My spider sense is tingling!
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Marnin Rosenberg, John Elder, D. Jon Zimmerman, J.E. Kostenko, and Peter Sanderson; Marvel Value Stamp Series A #55 (Medusa).
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Dark Asylum!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Keith Starr; Lydia
First Line: Have you ever awoken during the night...
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Pages: 8
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The Hidden Vampire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Arthur Sulman
First Line: This is a tale of a vampire!
Synopsis: An American reporter investigating stories of a vampire in Hungary meets his end when he realizes that the castle he's been poking around in is itself the vampire in disguise.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #21 published January 1955
was The Hidden Vampire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
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They Fly By Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): John Burton; Mrs. Burton; Tom Burton
First Line: It was such a wonderful idea...
Synopsis: A boy's parents are killed by a vampire during a trip to Hungary and he survives because the vampire is too sated to drain his blood. He returns to America but continues to have dreams of his parents begging him to return to Hungary so that they can be together forever. When he reaches adulthood he returns to Hungary and prepares to slay the vampire. Instead he encounters his parents who are vampires and offer to turn him into one. He walks towards the two but the story leaves it up to the reader to guess whether he stakes them or submits to their dark embrace.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #30 published April 1954
was They Fly by Night [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5

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