- "Slowly our membership will grow, and soon -- so very soon, I will accomplish what I failed to do in Transylvania. I will rule an empire!"
- ―Dracula
| "Requiem for a Vampire!" | |
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| The Tomb of Dracula | |
| Title: | "Requiem for a Vampire!" |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number: | 55 |
| Cover price: | .30 |
| Cover date: | April, 1977 |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Archie Goodwin |
| Writers: | Marv Wolfman |
| Pencilers: | Gene Colan |
| Inkers: | Tom Palmer |
| Cover artists: | Gene Colan |
| Cover inker: | Tom Palmer |
| Cover colorist: | Tom Palmer |
| Colorists: | Michele Wolfman |
| Letterers: | John Costanza |
| Editors: | Marv Wolfman |
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"Requiem for a Vampire!" is the title to the fifty-fifth issue of the first Tomb of Dracula ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written by Marv Wolfman with artwork by Gene Colan and inks by Tom Palmer. It was colored by Michele Wolfman and lettered by John Costanza. The story was edited by Marv Wolfman. This issue shipped with an April, 1977 cover date and carries a cover price of .30 cents per copy.
"Requiem for a Vampire!"[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
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Minor characters
- Janus Tepes
- Lilith Drake (As an afterthought only)
- Saint the Dog
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Notes & Trivia[]
- 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.
- This issue is reprinted in black and white in Essential Tomb of Dracula, Volume 3, published in November, 2004 and in full color in Tomb of Dracula Omnibus, Volume 2 in December, 2009. It is also reprinted in the Death of Dracula one-shot in May, 2011, and in the Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection, Volume 5 from December, 2021.
- Comic Reader #139 establishes that Tom Palmer is the cover inker to this issue.
- The child of Dracula and Domini is named Janus for the first time in this issue.