Dr Donald Blake is at a police station being questioned
about the disappearance of Jane Foster by the aggressive Lt. Timpalo. The
accusation comes from Dr Keith Kincaid, Jane’s fiancé before she suddenly
vanished. Don knows the truth—that Jane was dying and Lady Sif revived Jane by
using the Runestaff of Kamo Tharnn to transfer her own living energy into Jane’s
body (issues #236-238) but when Jane accompanied Thor to Asgard (in issue #249)
she turned back into Sif and Jane has not been seen since—but he can’t reveal
it without destroying his secret identity. With no evidence against him, Don is
permitted to leave; he then transforms to Thor and flies to New York in search
of the Runestaff of Kamo Tharnn, hoping it is the key to the mystery….
Nearby, Sif stops a kid from being hit by a taxi merely by
pressing down on the hood but she sees from a newspaper that Don is in trouble
and hurries off to his aid….
In New York, Thor checks the hospital where Jane was healed
by Sif but they report that they once had the Runestaff but it’s now gone. Thor
checks in with the Avengers, asking Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau) and Starfox
to be on the lookout….
Back in Chicago, Count Dracula is raised from his coffin by
his cult of followers; he goes out in search of victims. He passes over a
rooftop where the returning Thor meets with Sif and he senses Sif’s divine
blood. Dracula then attacks and feeds on three teenagers….
The next day, the murders of the three teens are being
investigated by Lt Timpano; Thor offers his help but nothing happens for a few
days…then the unidentified body of a vampire’s victim turns up missing from the
morgue. Then police receive a call of a mugging and Thor answers to find the
new vampire attacking a woman…he hurls Mjolnir at the fiend and he bursts into
flame and dies—Mjolnir is a religious symbol after all. Thor and the police head
to the cemetery where the three dead students have been buried in time to see
them rising from their graves. He dispatches them easily (after the battle depicted
on the cover) and heads to New York to consult with Doctor Strange….
Intrigued by the idea of drinking the blood of a goddess,
Dracula locates Sif at Don’s apartment and, she bids him enter in her sleep.
Dracula enters and feasts….