Besides futuristic barbarian
Wolff, the 1970s horror anthology
Dracula featured...
...a Victorian monster-hunter done in a wild, semi-psychedelic style by Jose Bea (The pen-name for writer/illustrator Jose Maria Bea Font).
You'll find out if a lead projectile will stop the creature (and if it doesn't...what will?) in our next exciting entry!
This first part of a two-part tale from
Dracula #1 (1971) was co-written by
Luis Vigil.
The
Sir Leo series was published irregularly in
Dracula (1971), a 12-issue partworks magazine* by Great Britain's
New English Library, the first two
Sir Leo tales made their American debut in
Warren Publishing's HTF
Dracula TPB in 1972 which reprinted #1-#6 of the British
Dracula's run.
The remaining tales from #7-#12 have
never been published in the US.
We will be presenting the
complete Sir Leo strip (including the unseen-in-the-USA stories) on this blog over the next few months.
Watch for it!
*
Partworks magazines are a limited series issued from weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.
They usually run 12-24 issues for each volume.
When
the final issue in a volume is published, the publishers offer a
wraparound cover to make the complete set into a hardbound book.
The
buyer is offered the option to bind the magazines themselves or send
the set to the publisher who professionally-binds the mags and sends the
bound volume back to the customer.
This concept is extremely popular in Europe, but has never caught on in America, despite numerous attempts.
