"Let It Bleed!" is the main story featured in the fourth issue of the Giant-Size Dracula quarterly series, which is an adjunct of the Tomb of Dracula regular series. The story was written by David Anthony Kraft & plotted by Marv Wolfman. It was illustrated by Don Heck with Frank Springer on inks. It was colored by Petra Goldberg and lettered by Artie Simek. The story was edited by Len Wein. This issue includes four additional back-up features, all of which are reprints of classic stories. "Forbidden Drink" was illustrated by Pete Tumlinson. "The Gargoyles" was written by Stan Lee and drawn by Steve Ditko. "I Am the Living Ghost!" was illustrated by Steve Ditko, and "You Can't Escape" was crafted by an unidentified creative team. All reprint stories were originally edited by Stan Lee. This issue shipped with a March, 1975 cover date and carries a cover price of .50 cents per copy.
It is the year 1934, and Dracula murders a man aboard ship bound for America by pitching him overboard. During the voyage, he meets Beverly Carpenter and accompanies her back to the United States. In Beverly's home town of Devil's Lake, North Dakota, her father Paul Carpenter becomes possessed by a necromantic entity known as the "Devil's Heart". The possession turns him into a vicious murderer and the Devil's Heart also takes possession of Beverly's boyfriend Stuart. Dracula arrives and follows the group into a cavern below a cistern which is the home of the Devil's Heart. Dracula is immune to the Heart's influence and succeeds in killing it. Beverly and Paul however, does not survive the affair.
Dracula was created by Irish author Bram Stoker. He is the titular antagonist of Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which was inspired by an actual Wallachian nobleman known as Vlad II, aka Vlad the Impaler.
This issue carries the approval stamp of the Comics Code Authority.
The tagline to this issue is "The Demon of Devil's Lake!"
