You think that I would be busy enough writing two posts about Marvel Comics NIGHTSTALKERS at the same time but longtime followers of the blog know that I like to triple check everything and so naturally I went back to see when my last post about Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's TOMB OF DRACULA was. So imagine my surprise when I realized that I had written only one post about that subject so far and to remedy that horrible situation we have a TOMB OF DRACULA double feature Today.
Now everybody who has visited this blog over a prolonged period of time knows what a big fan of his work I am so it comes as a bit of a surprise that so far I have only done one full post about the series for which he is best known, TOMB OF DRACULA with the complete artwork for issue 41.
I mean, I have done anniversary posts for Gene Colan that featured artwork from all the different series he worked on in 2016 and 2017 , I wrote three posts for his run on the Batman titles in 2018, one on his DAREDEVIL run in 2019 , one on his work on the DOCTOR STRANGE books in 2022 , heck I even did one post in 2023 about his run on WONDER WOMAN - which is never mentioned when people talk about his work - but I've only done one spotlight for his work on THE TOMB OF DRACULA.
What is especially vexing about this whole matter is I vividly remember preparing all of the necessary material for a spotlight post on Blade with selected pages from the series featuring Marvel's most famous vampire hunter but if I did that I definitely never got around to write that post.
Which was my original idea for this post since Blade is also a part of the NIGHTSTALKERS and that way I could give all of the people out there who only know Blade from the movies with Wesley Snipes - or the younger audience who only knows him from the Wesley Snipes cameo appearance in the DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE movie a bit of backstory on this seminal Marvel Comics character. Yup, at least that was the plan.
But while preparing the stuff for this post I found the complete original artwork for issues 36 and 37 of THE TOMB OF DRACULA and since it is too much to cram it all into a single post I am doing another double feature with issue 36 in this post and issue 37 in our next post. I don't think I can do another post Tomorrow so I am already wishing all horror enthusiasts out there a blessed Samhain, a happy All Hallow's Eve and may the the green man and the green lady keep a watchful eye over you. And beware of elves and other magic folks especially if they offer you food or drinks.
children of the night what beautiful music they make
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