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Dracula
"What Lurks Beneath Satan's Hill?"
Tomb of Dracula 62
The Tomb of Dracula
Title: "What Lurks Beneath Satan's Hill?"
Volume: 1
Number: 62
Cover price: .35
Cover date: January, 1978
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Credits
Chief: Jim Shooter
Writers: Marv Wolfman
Pencilers: Gene Colan
Inkers: Tom Palmer
Cover artists: Gene Colan
Cover inker: Tom Palmer
Colorists: Michele Wolfman
Letterers: Joe Rosen
Editors: Marv Wolfman
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"What Lurks Beneath Satan's Hill?" is the sixty-second 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 Palmer and lettered by Michele Wolfman. The story was edited by Marv Wolfman. This issue shipped with a January, 1978 cover date and carries a cover price of .35 cents per copy.

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  • 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.
  • "TOD 62" serves as a shortcut to this page.
  • This issue is cover code number 02143.
  • This issue carries the approval stamp of the Comics Code Authority.
  • The cover to this issue boasts the badge of "Comicdom's Number 1 Fear Magazine".
  • The tagline to this issue is "Father against son! But can either survive -- what lurks beneath Satan's Hill!" (Grammatically, that should have ended with a question mark, not an exclamation point).
  • This story is reprinted in black and white in the Essential Tomb of Dracula, Volume 3 trade paperback collection, released in November, 2004. It is reprinted in color in the Tomb of Dracula Omnibus, Volume 2 hardcover collection, published in December, 2009. It is also reprinted in the Death of Dracula trade paperback collection, which came out in May, 2011.
  • Colorist Michele Wolfman is credited as Michele W. in this issue.
  • Janus Tepes is possessed by the Golden Angel in this issue.
  • Reference is made to Mark Harris and Elizabeth Merrill in this issue. These are fictional characters featured in the Man from Atlantis television series, which began as a pilot movie on NBC.
  • Dracula last encountered Topaz back in Tomb of Dracula #18.

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The World of Dracula

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