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Tomb of Dracula #39

Dec 1975
Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan

Tomb of Dracula #39 cover

Story Name:

The Death of Dracula!


Synopsis

Tomb of Dracula #39 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4.5 stars

Count Dracula is ushered into the presence of Doctor Sun and discovers Frank Drake, Rachel van Helsing, and Quincy Harker are captives. Sun tells Dracula he has taken enough of the vampire’s power to complete his plans and there is therefore no need for Dracula to live any longer. Dracula is defiant, having outlived all of his enemies for over 500 years. Sun orders his henchman Juno to attack and the battle is on. It is fast and brutal, with Dracula still weakened. Then Harold H. Harold and Aurora Rabinowitz enter, having followed Juno from Harold’s apartment; Dracula is distracted by their arrival and Juno stabs him through the back with his silver stake hand. Dracula tells Quincy that he should have been the one to kill him and informs Sun that he is still an unworthy opponent before dying and decaying into a skeleton. On Sun’s orders, Juno turns a flamethrower on the corpse and reduces it to ash which he puts in an urn for Sun to gloat over. The humans are put in a room where introductions are made with Aurora encouraging them to try to rescue Dracula, though Rachel finds her affection for the late monster absurd. With Rachel’s barrette (which is a combination cross and stake), they pick the lock and Aurora vamps the guard so he can be overpowered. They jump in Harold’s car and get away—which is what Doctor Sun was counting on. He watches as Harker and company alert the US military who are under orders from the President to cooperate with the vampire hunters; when the soldiers arrive, Sun plans to use the stolen power of hypnotism to turn them to his side. And the fate of the world will be sealed!


 

Review / Commentaries


Tomb of Dracula #39 Review by (June 16, 2021)

Review: And so it ends (for this ish at least): Dracula is dead, staked, burned, and urned. And it was a dramatic, honorable death in combat. And, yes, being a vampire makes him a lot easier to resurrect than, say, Jean Gray but it’s still a shocking development. Especially as they keep stressing that Doctor Sun is a lot more dangerous, being a mad scientist with megalomania and all with a big “bwaa-ha-ha!” factor. As predicted, Harold has little to do except supply goofy shtick and Aurora is into her ditsy chick routine, professing her love for Dracula and generally being clueless about the whole situation. And for the second consecutive issue, she uses her feminine pulchritude to distract a guy for the benefit of the protagonists. All that said, this is really a great issue, with Drac’s exciting duel to the death and demise. And we’re only halfway through this arc. Enjoy!   

Comments: Part three of six parts. Dracula previously died in issue #13, returning the following issue; issue #15 has a flashback to an earlier death and he came close to death in #32-33. Cover says it’s the “final death” but we know that isn’t true, especially since there are 31 more issues of this comic book to come. Dying Dracula uses the word “slayed;” the correct form is “slew” but he was dying so we’ll cut him a break. (Plus, it’s changing, especially in the USA.)



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