Turac | |
Aliases: | Lord Turac |
Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
Notability: | Antagonist |
Type: | Warlord |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Vampire |
Location: | Ankara, Turkey |
Relatives: | Elianne Turac |
Status: | Deceased |
Died: | 1459 |
First: | Dracula Lives! #2 |
Turac is a fictional warlord and vampire and a recurring antagonist featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is associated with the Dracula line of titles and first appeared in Dracula Lives! #2 in July, 1973.
Biography[]

Lord Turac in 1459.
Turac was a Turkish warlord from the mid 15th century during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. He was at the forefront of invasion campaigns to wrest control of the Romanian kingdom of Wallachia, which was led by the voivode Prince Vlad Tepes. Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler, and Dracula, led his forces against the Turkish army, but was felled in battle in 1459. However, Turac was not content with seeing the Wallachian prince dead. Turac wanted to use Dracula as a puppet so he could retain control of Wallachia. Heeding the advice of one of his soldiers, he brought the dying prince to the gypsy known as Lianda, who was a vampire and turned Vlad into a vampire as well.
Turac took the neophyte vampire Dracula and imprisoned him inside of his own castle. Turac's men then took to violating Dracula's wife Maria. Chained to a wall, Dracula was forced to watch as Turac abused Maria. She tried to escape, but during the struggle, her head struck a column and she died.

Dracula puts the bite on Turac.
Dracula went blind with rage and broke free of the chains binding him to the wall. He bit Turac across the throat and left him to die. Turac became Dracula's first victim as a vampire.
As a newly resurrected vampire, Turac returned to his castle in Ankara, killing everyone including his wife and his finest janissaries. Turac's daughter Elianne and her lover Aron found the bloodless bodies of her mother and her brother. Armed with a spear, she came upon her father as he was taking the blood of another victim. Consumed with bloodlust, he attacked her. Elianne defended herself by stabbing Turac with her spear. With his dying breath, Turac relished being free of the vampiric curse, and bade his daughter to take vengeance against Dracula. Elianne swore to uphold her father's final wish before decapitating him with a battle axe. [1]
Abilities[]
- 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.
Equipment[]
- Spear: A common weapon of the time, Turac's spear had a razor-sharp tip, which is ideal for staking vampires.
Body Count[]
- Dracula - Speared in battle, though Dracula actually died as a result of Lianda.
- Lianda - Ran her through with his spear.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Turac was created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Neal Adams.
- Turac is not to be confused with Turok, who is a Native American dinosaur hunter]] as seen in comic books published by Gold Key Comics and later Valiant Comics.
- In addition to his daughter Elianne, Turac also had a wife and a son, whose names remain unknown.
See also[]
External Links[]
Appearances[]
- Bizarre Adventures 33
- Dracula Lives! 2
- Giant-Size Dracula 3
- Tomb of Dracula 15
- Tomb of Dracula 50
- Tomb of Dracula 60