Tomb Of Dracula Chronology

I once did a chronology of The Teen Titans. It was much easier than I expected.

I’m now doing a chronology of Tomb Of Dracula. It was much harder than I expected.

I’ll be basing this on The Tomb of Dracula The Complete Collection, because that’s how I’ve got these stories. I’m including the volume and page numbers from those collections.

Here are my base assumptions:

If there’s no specific date given in the story, I put the date in the middle of the month / year – so, June if I only know the year, and the 15^th if I only know the month. Or, I base it on the publication date of the original story.

If there’s a run, the date given will be the first issue of that run.

I’ve split off a couple of stories that don’t feature Dracula directly, but were in the collection anyway. I’ve tried to include every major piece included in the collection. (There are a couple of one-page write-ups of, say, actors in Dracula movies that I haven’t put in.)

What you’re going to see is:

The date of the story then the name of the story — then which volume of The Complete Collection it’s in then the page of that volume and finally the original issue it came from:

15 Mar  1975 Nobody Anybody Knows — v3 p404 Dracula Lives! #11

The Chronology

Random non-fiction:

Transylvania On A Budget — v2 p350 Dracula Lives! v2 #1
How To Ward Off Vampires — v3 p291 Dracula Lives! #9

These are just a couple of pieces about vampires in general, and aren’t set at any particular time; though Transylvania On A Budget has got to be hopelessly out-of-date by now.

Lilith (Dracula’s doctor):

15 Jan 1975 The Blood Book — v3 p358 Dracula Lives! #10
15 Mar 1975 Nobody Anybody Knows — v3 p404 Dracula Lives! #11

Random character:
15 Jun 1975 Dark Asylum — v3 p487 Giant-Sized Dracula #5
15 Jul 1975 The Toad — v4 p72 Dracula Lives! #13

Random vampire:
11 Apr 1903 vampire A Vampire Stalks Melrose Abbey — v3 p374 Dracula Lives! #10
21 Sep 1904 vampire The Vampire Of Mednegna — v3 p390 Dracula Lives! #11
These two are about historical events, so I looked up the dates online.

Dracula:
1448 The Boyhood Of Dracula — v2 p381 Dracula Lives! v2 #1
1448 Yes, Virginia, There Is A Dracula — v2 p398 Dracula Lives! #6
These are about Vlad Tepes; I’ve used a year from his actual life (when he was about twenty, where some serious stuff happened to him).

13 Mar 1459 That Dracula May Live Again! — v1 p364 Dracula Lives! #2
14 Mar 1459 Lord Of Death… Lord Of Hell — v1 p413 Dracula Lives! #3
15 Mar 1459 Look Homeward, Vampire! — v1 p490 Dracula Lives! #4
The year is given in the story; it’s a three-parter, incorporating Dracula’s origin as a vampire.

15 Jun 1465 The Sins Of The Father — v4 p37 Dracula Lives! #12
15 Jun 1471 Blood Of My Blood — v4 p82 Dracula Lives! #13
The year is given in the story.

19 Jun 1560 Castle Of The Undead — v1 p426 Dracula Lives! #3
This is the first of two Solomon Kane crossover. I arbitrarily decided Kane was about 30, and I looked it up and he was probably born in 1530. I hope somebody here can give me a better idea.
15 Jun 1562 Retribution In Blood — v5 p338 Savage Sword Of Conan #26
This is a crossover with Solomon Kane. I tried to find a year for it, and there was a very wide range. Basically, I guessed.
Somebody here must know about Solomon Kane. Any hints?

05 Jun 1597 Parchment Of The Damned! — v4 p6 Dracula Lives! #12
The year is given in the story. I’m not sure anymore where I got ‘5 June’.

1606 This Blood Is Mine! — v1 p476 Dracula Lives! #4
The year is given in the story.

20 May 1670 Hellcow! — Howard The Duck Omnibus p64 Giant-Size Man-Thing #5
It’s set ‘more than 300 years’ before the issue came out – 20 May 1975.

20 Feb 1691 Suffer Not A Witch — v1 p336 Dracula Lives! #1
Due to events in the story, I set this exactly one year before the Salem Witch Trials.

15 Jun 1776 Assault Of The She-Pirate — v2 p460 Dracula Lives! #7
It’s about 300 years after Vlad Tepes, so the 1700s. The actual year may be given.

14 Jul 1785 A Duel Of Demons — v2 p353 Dracula Lives! v2 #1
14 Jul 1789 Shadow Over Versailles — v2 p413 Dracula Lives! #6
12 Oct 1809 The Pit Of Death pt 1 — v3 p337 Dracula Lives! #10
12 Oct 1809 The Pit Of Death pt 2 — v3 p379 Dracula Lives! #11
The dates are given in the stories.

23 Jan 1850 Bounty For A Vampire — v4 p50 Dracula Lives! #13
It’s a Western, so I’m setting it at the time.

05 Feb 1876I Was Once A Gentle Man… — v1 p439 Dracula Lives! #3
This is a text piece, written as a diary entry. The date is given.

17 Apr 1886 To Walk Again In Daylight! — v1 p351 Dracula Lives! #1
The only clue to the time setting is a note about ‘late 1800s’. I decided it should be set before the original novel.

3 May 1890 Dracula — v2 p338 Dracula Lives! v2 #1
4 May 1890 Into The Spider’s Web — v2 p425 Dracula Lives! #6
5 May 1890 The Female Of The Species — v2 p473 Dracula Lives! #7
9 May 1890 And In That Sleep… — v3 p263 Dracula Lives! #8
26 Jul 1890 Ship Of Death — v3 p348 Dracula Lives! #10
10 Aug 1890 If Madness Be Thy Master — v3 p392 Dracula Lives! #11
3 Sep 1890 Death Be Thou Proud — v4 p94 Legion Of Monsters #1
17 Sep 1890 Dracula — v5 p350 Stoker’s Dracula #2-4
This is an adaptation of the original Stoker novel, spread out over several years and then within my collections. It’s an epistolary novel, and the dates are given.

06 Nov 1897 Who Is Bram Stoker and Why Is He Saying These Terrible Things About Me? — v1 p380 Dracula Lives! #2
This is a text piece, written as a diary entry. The date is given.

17 Nov 1898 The Frankenstein Monster #7-9 — v2 p286
I know the year from reading the Marvel Frankenstein series.

17 Mar 1903 Twice Dies The Vampire — v3 p323 Dracula Lives! #9
9 Apr 1926 Black Hand… Black Death — v3 p253 Dracula Lives! #8
Year given in story.

1 Jun 1934 Let It Bleed — v3 p426 Giant-Sized Dracula #4
It’s set in the Depression.

15 Jun 1936 The Art Of Dying — v3 p456 Giant-Sized Dracula #5
It takes it for granted that zeppelins are a thing, so I’m putting it before the Hindenburg disaster.

12 Mar 1944 The Terror That Stalked Castle Dracula! — v1 p384 Dracula Lives! #2
The year is given in the story.

20 May 1947 Child Of The Sun — v3 p278 Dracula Lives! #8
Seemed kind of early, so I set it after a time the airplane involved was invented.

From here on in, I’m starting with 16 Nov 1971 for Tomb Of Dracula #1, and working forwards.

16 Nov 1971 Dracula — v1 p3 Tomb Of Dracula #1-6

27 Oct 1972 A Poison Of The Blood — v1 p322 Dracula Lives! #1
28 Oct 1973 The Voodoo Queen Of New Orleans! — v1 p396 Dracula Lives! #2
298 Oct 1972 Shadow In The City Of Light! — v1 p445 Dracula Lives! #3
Another three-parter, that seems to be contemporary to the original publication. I’ve squished the dates of the second two parts together to put them between the surrounding issues of Tomb Of Dracula.

17 Apr 1973 Night of the Death Stalkers! — v1 p136 Tomb Of Dracula #7-13

14 Aug 1973 Dracula Is Dead! — v1 p279 Tomb Of Dracula #14-15
16 Aug 1973 Fear Stalker — v1 p460 Dracula Lives! #4
Another Dracula Lives! story that seems to be contemporary. I put it after #15 to make sense of where Dracula was; it splits up volumes one and two nicely, too. I think the character is referenced in #11, though.

14 Jan 1974 Here Comes The Death Man — v2 p442 Dracula Lives! #7
Date given in story.

15 Jan 1974 Tomb Of Dracula #16-18 — v2 p4
15 March 1974 Werewolf By Night #15 — v2 p62
15 Apr 1974 Tomb Of Dracula #19-22 — v2 p82
16 Jul 1974 Ship Of Fiends! —  2 p161 Giant-Sized Spider-Man #1
17 Jul 1974 Night Of The She-Demon — v2 p192 Giant-Sized Marvel Chillers #1
15 Aug 1974 Tomb Of Dracula #23-24 — v2 p217
03 Mar 1974 Demons In Darkness — v2 p364 Dracula Lives! v2#1
04 Mar 1974 Night Flight To Terror — v2 p371 Dracula Lives! v2#1
05 May 1974 A Death In The Chapel! — v2 p388 Dracula Lives! #6
06 May 1974 Blood Moon pt I — v2 p406 Dracula Lives! #6
06 May 1974 Blood Moon pt 2 — v2 p452 Dracula Lives! #7
27 May 1974 A Night In The Unlife — v3 p313 Dracula Lives! #9
15 Sep 1974 Last Walk On The Nightside — v3 p241 Dracula Lives! #8
16 Sep 1974 The Lady Who Collected Dracula — v3 p293 Dracula Lives! #9
15 Oct 1975 Tomb Of Dracula #25-35 — v3 p4
15 Jul 1975 Bloody Mary v4 p62 Dracula Lives! #13
15 Sep 1975 Tomb Of Dracula #36-44 — v4 p109
15 May 1976 Dr Strange (1974) #14 — v4 p277
15 Jun 1976 Tomb Of Dracula #45-60 — v4 p294; v5 p4

14 Nov 1977 Marvel Preview #12 — v5 p113

(cover-dated Jan ’78, but it’s put in the trade between Tomb Of Dracula #60 and 61.)

15 Nov 1977 Tomb Of Dracula #61-70 — v5 p138

15 Mar 1983 Blood Feud! — Uncanny X-Men ann #6

3 May 1983 Assault On Avengers’ Mansion! — Doctor Strange (v2) #60 – this one is clearly in the middle of a Doctor Strange vs. Dracula storyline that must’ve been running in Doctor Strange at the time, but I only have it on its own in an Avengers collection; so I can’t vouch for which ones contain Dracula. (#59 and 61, surely?)