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| Harold H. Harold | |
| Aliases: | Harold Harold Harold |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Writer |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Vampire Life Model Decoy |
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Status: | Formerly deceased |
| First: | Tomb of Dracula #37 |
| Final: | Doctor Strange, Vol. 2 #62 |
Harold H. Harold is a fictional writer turned vampire and a supporting character featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the Dracula line of titles and first appeared in Tomb of Dracula #37 in October, 1975 in a story called "The Vampire is Coming! The Vampire is Coming!"
Biography[]
Harold Harold Harold was a reporter and pulp writer working for Mister Greadeley. When Greadeley became extremely displeased with his work, Harold promised him an interview with a real vampire. As luck would have it, that night Harold stumbled across the severely weakened Dracula, whom he took home. Unable to cope with the situation by himself, Harold called Aurora Rabinowitz, Greadeley's secretary and the object of Harold's affections. When they heard Dracula ask for blood, they broke into the blood bank in Harvard at Aurora's suggestion. With the blood they stole, they nursed Dracula back to health.
Dracula was then kidnapped by Juno. Harold and Aurora followed him and arrived at Doctor Sun's lair just in time to see Dracula get killed by Juno. Together with Quincy Harker's group, they were imprisoned by Sun, but managed to escape and alert the authorities.
He later wrote, amongst other things, the book "A Count of Death" in which he stated that Adolf Hitler was a reincarnation of Dracula.
Harold moved to Los Angeles, where he continued his career as a freelance writer. At some point he was bitten by a vampire, a change that ended up helping his career. He made two hit sitcoms and had a movie in the works when the Montesi Formula wiped out all vampires on Earth, reducing him to a pile of dust. [1]
Harold eventually returned, presumably through the spell cast by Lucas Cross that revived all the lost vampires of Earth.
After discovering Count Nefaria had LMD bodies stored in his mansion for dubious purposes, Harold tried to leave Los Angeles, but Nefaria's goons found him and beat him up. Every time he tried to get out of the city, he was again found and beat up.
Decades later, he met Katie Bishop in a supermarket, and later motivated her with her career as a hero for hire. After discovering Harold heavily injured, he revealed his story to Katie. Katie tried to help Harold leave Los Angeles by plane, and he was once again discovered, but this time kidnapped by the goons of Count Nefaria's daughter Madame Masque. His body was found by LAPD in the Hollywood Sign.
Kate was arrested for Harold's death because one of her arrows was pinned to his body, but she was bailed from jail by none other than Harold himself. Like Madame Masque's clients, his consciousness had been placed in an LMD, but unlike Nefaria's clients, who did it to stay young, Harold was forced through the process so Nefaria could keep punishing him. Kate infiltrated Madame Masque's mansion and retrieved information regarding her activities while Harold distracted the villain. After setting fire to her residence, Masque was pinned down by S.H.I.E.L.D.. Even though she was captured, her activities with the LMDs were covered up. Harold was later confronted by Kate, and confessed to having set her up so Madame's activities could be shut down.
Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Vampirism: In addition to the various mental and physical benefits that vampires are heir to, they also possess the ability to turn others into vampires as well. Each new vampire is traditionally subservient to the one who "turned" them, but some strong-willed vampires have been known to rebel against their masters.
- Enhanced senses: Vampires have improved several times higher than those of any human being of course these skills can vary depending on each person they will have some other stronger senses of his companions always given the dedication and training that each set to improve ways. Among the main ways that vampires have improved we find the following:
- Immortality: So long as vampires continue to consume blood, they will not age beyond the physical state they were in when they first became a vampire.
- Invulnerability: Vampires are invulnerable to most forms of injury (certain exceptions apply). Bullets, blades and blunt objects do little to no damage to a vampire's body.
- Regeneration: In addition to being virtually indestructible, whatever damage a vampire does in fact suffer can be healed through the consumption of human blood.
- Superhuman strength: A vampire's strength level is several times that of a normal human being and they are considered superhuman.
- Superhuman stamina: So long as they continue to consume human blood, a vampire can function tirelessly without rest or relaxation. However, a vampire's stamina wanes the closer it is to sunrise.
- Psychokinesis: Most vampires possess some form of psychokinesis. Some are clairvoyant, others can communicate telepathically, some possess mind control. Particularly powerful vampires can control the minds of several people at once.
- Hypnosis: Vampires possess the ability to hypnotize or mesmerize human targets. This may become difficult against opponents with an extremely high will power. It often doesn't work against other supernatural creatures. In some cases, vampire mesmerism may be referred to as "glamouring".
- Transformation: Vampires often possess the ability to transform into a variety of creatures or effects such as bats, wolves, rats or even mist. While their physical attributes may fluctuate during such states, a vampire's mental acuity is the same as that when they are in their human shape. A vampire who transforms into an animal may also benefit from that particular animal's attributes including razor-sharp claws, fangs or the ability to fly.
- Metamorphosis: Only vampires with a more advanced powers Control demonstrate the ability of altering either its appearance to imitate other people or in such cases selective transformation for creating claws to increase the lethal capability of its attacks in extreme cases and only vampires with a capacity of very advanced monitoring capabilities such change would show how elements, elasticity and other capabilities which vary depending on their ability, imagination and control, because as you know some vampires are stronger than others.
- Claws: Vampires can often turn their fingernails into sharpened claws, which are extremely durable and sharp. They are ideal for rending and tearing through flesh, though they are not as effective as the claws possessed by a werewolf.
- Fangs: A vampire's most often-used weapon are her fangs. They are enlarged sharpened canine teeth, which are often retractable so as to allow a vampire the ability to pose as a normal human. The primary purpose of fangs is for feeding, which they use to puncture the jugular vein of a victim in order to get to their blood.
Skills[]
- Occult As research for his budding writing career, Harold H. Harold studied the occult extensively. He maintained a meager library of materials relating to the occult in his Boston apartment. By his own account, Harold was knowledgeable of witch sabbaths, moon cults, anachronist joustings and "even Star Trekkie conventions". [2]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Harold H. Harold was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan.
- Harold owned a pet tabby cat named Fruitcake.
- Wrote an amateur manuscript called The Vampire Conspiracy in which he placed himself as the protagonist. The fictionalized account of Harold and his colleagues was radically different from the way they truly behaved in the real world.
- In his early appearances, Harold used to drive an antique convertible roadster. [3]
- Harold H. Harold was introduced in the same issue as Aurora Rabinowitz.
See also[]
Appearances[]
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External Links[]
- Harold H. Harold at MDP
- Harold H. Harold at Wikipedia
- Harold H. Harold at Comic Vine
- Harold H. Harold at the Marvel Directory
- Harold H. Harold at the Marvel Horror Wiki