DRACULA

Real Name: Vlad Tepes Dracula

Identity/Class: Human vampire and magic-user;
    15^th century to modern era (15^th-17^th centuries, 18^th-19^th centuries, 1900-1929, 1930-1945, 1946-1959, pre-modern era)
    Transylvanian citizen;
    the general public does not believe Dracula to truly be a vampire and/or the historic Vlad Dracula

Occupation: Lord of the Vampires;
    former prince of Transylvania and voivode /domnul (prince) of Wallachia

Citizenship: Formerly Transylvania and Wallachia

Group Membership: Intermittent leader of Earth's vampires (some of whom have opposed him in various coups against Dracula and his rule), the Legion of the Unliving (Baroness Blood/Lily Cromwell, the Carpathian, the Rat Bomber, Sarge, Snowsnake);
    allied with or led: the Belonging, Brides of Dracula, Children of Judas, Children of the Night, a group of Darkholders, Legion of the Damned (civil war), Legion of the Damned (modern era), Legion of Doom, the Order of the Dragon, unidentified Nosferatu-like servants associated with his Vampire State;
    temporary master of the Darkholders;
    formerly led the organized Vampire State (with non-supporters brought under his will by Lilith (Mother of Demon)'s magic);
    formerly an unidentified group (Coldblood/Eric Savin, Darkhawk/Chris Powell, Deathlok/Michael Collins, Photon/Monica Rambeau, Sleepwalker, Terror/Shreck, Wonder Man/Simon Williams) brought to the Stranger's Battleworld

Affiliations: Lianda (transformed him into a vampire); Varnae (transformed him into Lord of the Vampires);
    Jamal Afari, Tara Algren, Andrea, Angela, Asmodeus, Charles Barnabus, Baron Blood (John Falsworth), Baron Blood (Kenneth Crichton), Paul Beare (acquaintance), Charity Brown, Captain Fate (Jebediah Fate), Ruth Caulderon, Lord Todor Claverling, Dr. Jacob Cromwell, Lucas Cross, cult of human followers, Marguerita D'Alescio, David, Lenore DeCade, Bethany Flynn, Richard Grant, Harold H. Harold (occasional), Lord Henry (servant), Kuai Hua and her handmaidens, John Hunyadi, Karlos (former servant), Krieger vampire sect, Hauptmann Rudolph Kriss (possessed by him), Maria Kroner, Legate of the Krieger sect, Lilith (Mother of Demons), King Louis XVI (Louis Stanislas Xavier), Captain Luna, Marlene McKenna, Marguerita, Mr. Mayhew,  Lila Mengering, Dr. Heinrich Mortte, Murgo (forced alliance), Father Nicholas, Jasper O'Conner (slave), Eveline O'Reilly, Cecile Parker (slave), Postmortem, Aurora Rabinowitz, Raoul, Raynee, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Reginald, Renfield, Made Rogers, Ryg, Comte St. Germaine, Professor Gregor Smirnoff, Anabelle St. John, Ilsa Strangway, Beverly Switzler, Andre Thorton (an alias of Truett Hudson), Tituba, Horatio Toombs (slave), Rachel van Helsing (after transforming her into a vampire), Henri Verne, Viktor, Cristina Virag, Carl von Harbou (former servant), Shiela Whittier, Ypsilloth, Zaveria;
    unidentified carriage driver; unidentified servants circa Black Cat I#1/3, sister of Hans; unidentified US Air Force pilot (Tomb of Dracula I#36); unidentified monsters (Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1-2); unidentified politicians, lords, and people of wealth and power;
    possibly Diablo (see "Other Comments");
    temporary alliances of convenience (and/or coercion): Abira, Blade (Eric Brooks), Elsa Bloodstone, Bloodstorm, Dahlia, Defenders (Clea, Dr. Stephen Strange, Gargoyle/Isaac Christians, Hellcat/Patsy Walker, Nighthawk/Kyle Richmond, Son of Satan/Daimon Hellstrom (later Hellstorm), Valkyrie/Brunnhilde), Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom),Frank Drake, Florence Ebers, Excalibur (Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Kitty Pryde, Amanda Sefton [aka Daytripper]), Forgiven (Ghost Blade, Inka, Night Eyes, Quickshot, Visigoth), Frankenstein Monster (as Adam), Quincy Harker, Howling Commandos (Isadore "Izzy" Cohen, Dino Manelli, Gabe Jones, "Dum-Dum" Dugan, Sgt. Nick Fury, Eric Koenig, Robert "Rebel" Ralston, Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton), Husam, Husni, Namor the Sub-Mariner, Taj Nital, Amanda Sefton (brief possession), Rachel van Helsing, Werewolf (Jack Russell), X-Men (Cyclops/Scott Summers, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Jean Grey, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Wolverine/James Howlett/Logan);
    formerly Dr. James Boggs, Church of Satan, David Eschol, Frightful Four (Frankenstein's monster, Marcus the centaur, Mummy (see comments), Xzax), Alexander Gordski (former lackey), Gorilla-Man (Ken Hale), Hulk (Bruce Banner), Jubilee (Jubilation Lee), Juito, Raizo Kodo, Phineas Kroner, Kuyuk, Leslie, Anton Lupeski, Marissa, Medusa, Mephisto (also as Satan), monster forces serving Shiklah, Natalya, Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich), Helen Purvis, Jonas Ravencroft, Shiklah, Sif, Storm (Ororo Munroe, only when under supernatural duress), Carla Spelvin, Vampire by Night (Nina Price), Carl von Harbou, Daphne von Wilkinson, numerous unidentified members of a Natchez, Mississippi vampire coven;
    former pawn of Nightmare (apparently);
    allegedly briefly visited by Howard Stark (to whom he denied a sip of his own blood);
    indirectly Otto von Bismarck

"Once Bitten" (Bitten and/or vamped by him):

Jamal Afari, Tara Algren, Amjad, Edna Appleton, Emily Arthurs, Lucas Bane, Baqir, Baron Blood (John Falsworth), Giorgia Bathory, Martin Beatering, Tilly Beatering, Sarah Beauregard, Bessie, Louis Belski, Lord Benitio, Mary Jo Bentley, Bessie the Hellcow (possibly), Bettina, Blade, Ryan Birks, Jack Bolt, Lucas Brand, Colleen Brown, Odette Byelai, Beverly Carpenter, Rosella Carson, Bartholomew "Bat" Cartwright, Catherine, Julie Chambers, Lt. Mitchell Chapel, Roberta Christianson, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Chu, Clark, Cynthia Cullen, Captain Harold Cutlass, Marianne Cutlass, Count Marcos de la Triana, Deadpool (Jack/"Wade Wilson"), Alonzo DeRose, Amber Drey, Guillaume du Monte, Augustus and Florence Ebers, Lorenza Serafina Feliciani, Mary Fetter, Bethany Flynn, Beverly Gable, Jean Garver, Betty Gold, Gordon, Buckley Grainger, Edith Harker, Elizabeth Harker, Quincy Harker, Suze Harlow, Harold H. Harold, Jennifer Hobarth, Howard the Duck, Yusuf Hussain, Julie, Julka, Elvira Kaufman, Marie Komph, Maria Kroner, Elizabeth Langley, Nigel Langood, Ursula Lensky, Lila, Liza, Eniko Lupescu, Velanna Lupescu, Guisippi Mainardi, Umberto Mammone, Marianne Manino, Mr. Mayhew, Ken Mitchell, Louisa Morelli, Morgo, Gitta Mortte, Dr. Heinrich Mortte, (presumably) Mina Murray, Angelica and Laurie Neal, Adri Nital, Jasper O'Conner, Jean Ovington, Jack Owens, Cecile Parker, Maria Patrelli, Audra Pennington, Helen Purvis, Anna Reynolds, Angie Rodgers, Made Rogers, Louisa Russoff, Lorenza Safina, Sarah, Henry Sage and his family, (presumably) She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters), Sif, Andrea Simmons, Hamilton Slade of Clan Akkaba, Carla Spelvin, Katerina Stenski, Connie Stewart, Storm (Ororo Monroe), Lyza Strang, Dr. Stephen Strange, Ilsa Strangway, Mr. Swales, Timothy, Tituba, Lord Turac, and many of his men, Elianne Turac, Sir Winston Twindle, unidentified servant-girl, Elizabeth van Helsing, Rachel van Helsing, Lord Vargas, Lord von Roon, Isabel Vortok, Countess Nikolett Vryslaw, Alice Weinburg, Lucy Westenra, White Widow (Yelena Belova), Mildred Wilson, Wolverine (James Howlett/Logan), Wolverine of Earth-29123 (aka "Old Man Logan"), Wong; Amy (Captain Britain & MI13#9; slain before being bitten) and other unidentified women upon whom he fed for power; unidentified terrorist (from Dracula Lives#5/8)
    numerous unidentified members of a Natchez, Mississippi vampire coven; crew of the ship Demeter;
    literally thousands of others unidentified

Enemies: Aamshed, Jamal Afari, Goodman Alden, Benjamin Solomon Alomii, Angel, Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), Arni, Asmodeus, the Avengers (Black Panther/T'Challa, Blade/Eric Brooks, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers (also as Warbird), Ghost Rider/Robbie Reyes, Iron Man/Tony Stark, She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters, Thor Odinson, Wasp/Janet Van Dyne), Dr. James Lloyd Barrett, Giorgia Bathory, Nathan Beauregard, Belasco and his demons, Louis Belski, Benitio of Bologna, Viktor Benzel, Bessie the Hellcow, Bible John, Captain Ryan Birks and his crew, Black Fox, Blade (Eric Brooks), Blood Countess (Elizabeth, Countess Bathory), Elsa Bloodstone, Ulysses Bloodstone, Dr. James Boggs, Father Nicholas Bordia, Lucas Brand, Broo, Francis Leroy "Cowboy" Brown, Bruxal, Jacob Buckner, Bucky (James Buchanan Barnes; later the Winter Soldier), Bug (Shiklah's pet), Paul Butterworth, Odette Byelai, Cagliostro (O-Bengh), Captain America (Steve Rogers), Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Catherine the Great, Anthony "Whisperer" Cavelli, Cerebra, Lt. Chapel, Inspector George Chelm, Roberta Christianson, Clan Akkaba, Mark Cordier, Duncan Corley, Cristina's uncle, Captain Harold Cutlass, Dahlia, Joshiah Dawn, Deadpool (Jack, aka Wade Wilson), Death (manifestation of cosmic entity), Death Man, Defenders (Clea, Dr. Stephen Strange, Gargoyle/Isaac Christians, Hellcat/Patsy Walker, Nighthawk/Kyle Richmond, the Son of Satan/Daimon Hellstrom (later Hellstorm), Valkyrie/Brunnhilde); Randolph Dering, Hellyn DeVill, Marie DeVoe, Devil's Heart, Nick Diablo and his gang, Dimensional Man (Joshua Farkas), Serge Dobogoko, Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom), Doctor Druid (Anthony Ludgate Druid), Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Doctor Sun, Doctor Voodoo (Jericho & Daniel Drumm), Dormammu and his monsters, Castillo Drake, Frank Drake, Helene and Jacques DuBois, Eric Duff, DuMonte, Alestar Dunwick, Durenyi, Augustus Ebers, Father and Sister Marie Eisner, Enclave (demon-worshipping group; notably Damien Burnemissza), David Eshcol, Faceless Man, Jason Faust, Lorenza Serafina Feliciani, Frederick Ferguson, Enzo Ferrarra, Fi'ori, the Five (Egg/Fabio Medina, Elixir/Josh Foley, Proteus/Kevin MacTaggert, Hope Summers, Tempus/Eva Bell), Father Vergilius Flotsky, the Forever Man (in his Gideon Smith incarnation), Forgiven (Ghost Blade, Inka, Night Eyes, Quickshot, Visigoth), Frankenstein Monster, Benjamin Franklin, Franz and his wife, Kate Fraser, David Frazier, the Frenchman, Gladys Fulton, Lou Garver, Gaston, Generation X (Chamber/Jonothon Starsmore, Husk/Paige Guthrie, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Skin/Angelo Espinoso, Synch/Everett Thomas), Golden Angel, Inspector Judiah Golem, Alexander Gordski, Clifton Graves, Gretchin, Granet Gruber, Ludwig Gruber, Gruner, Corker Haller, Hans, Walter Hardy, Johnathan Harker, Quincy Harker, Harold H. Harold, Mr. Haskell, Robert Hellsgaard, Dr. Hennessy, Diana Hetherington, Jimmy Hodges, Arthur Holmwood, Howard the Duck, Howling Commandos (Glyph/Nadeen Hassan, Hit Monkey, Man-Thing/Ted Sallis, Manphibian, Orrgo, Teen Abomination/Jamie Carlson, Vampire by Night/Nina Price, Warwolf/Martin Reyna), Hulk (Bruce Banner), John and the Baron Hunyadi, Farida Hussain, Yusuf Hussain, Jackson, John Jameson, Orji Jones, Juito, Juno, Solomon Kane, Katinka, Hannibal King, Melanie and Paul Knight, Knull, Raizo Kodo, Baron Korda, Leonid Korsak, Doctor Kraye, Jackson Kubbard, Kuyuk, Lala, Marie Laveau, Anton Levka, Liz (platonic date of Captain Britain), Lilith (Daughter of Dracula), Liz (associate of Captain Britain/Brian Braddock), Eniko Lupescu, Anton Lupeski, Lydia (former prisoner), Magyars of the 15^th century, Joe Don Mahoney, Mike Mallony, the Marshal, Mason, Dr. Alice Joyce Maxfield, Anna McDonald, Jacque McDonald, Peter McDonald, Azu M'Dammen, Medusa, Mephisto (also as Satan), MI13 (Captain Britain/Brian Braddock, Dark Angel/Shevaun Haldane, Death's Head/Minion, Digitek/Jonathan Bryant, Excalibur/Faiza Hussain, Killpower/Julian Mullarkey, Motormouth/Harley Davis, O/Oliver Orwell, Meggan Puceanu, Spitfire/Jacqueline Falsworth, Tangerine, Peter Wisdom), Arnie Milsap, Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse), Mohammed the Conqueror, monster forces serving Shiklah, Giuseppe Montesi, Montpellier, Michael Morbius, Baron (Karl) Mordo, Morgit, Morgo, Quincy Morris, Mortuus Invitus (notably Groza and Vane), Sultan Murad II, Murgo and his wife, Musenda, Frank Neal, the N'Garai, N'Garai creature, Torgo Nia, Father Nicholas, Nightguard (notably Louise), Nightmare, Night Terror, Nimrod the First, Jyoti Nital, Noelle, Nosferatu, Nosferati vampires, Nul, Orphelus, Ozymandias, Plotka, Puishannt, Helen Purvis, Radu the Handsome (usurped Dracula's throne backed by the Turks), Jonas Ravencroft, Riders of the Dark, Anton Rizzoli, Russian Empire of the 18^th century, Baron (Grigori) Russoff, Russoff Trio (Jerome Russoff, Renfield Russoff, Stefan Russoff), S.A.F.E. (Strategic Action For Emergencies), Saint, Colonel Saint Johns, Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Scotsman (Ewan Duff), Charles Seward, John Seward, Shiklah, Skinnee Shore, Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd), Seymour "Simian" Simms, Lord Singleton, Six-Fingered Hand, Margaret Slade, Sandra Sommers, Carla Spelvin, Special Air Services (John Colton), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), S.T.A.K.E., Jack Starsmore, Steppin' Razor, Gorna Storski, Archibald and Lyza Strang, Ogun Strong, Beverly "Lee" Switzler, Beverly Switzler, Tamsin, Tara (date of Pete Wisdom), Tartoff, Trudy Taylor, Lucas Telling-Stone, Vlad Tepulus, Teutonic Knights of the 15^th century, Thor Odinson, Aaron Thorne, Topaz, Lord Turac, Elianne Turac, the Turkish Empire in the 15^th century, Turkish Empire of the 18^th century, Angie Turner, the Unwanted, Abraham van Helsing, August van Helsing (presumably), Camper "Cami" van Helsing, Jeremiah van Helsing, Noah van Helsing, Rache van Helsing and her son, Rachel van Helsing and her parents, Varnae, Vengeance (Michael Badilino), Frank von Frankenstein, Carl von Harbou, von Roon of Prussia, Daphne von Wilkinson, Count Zsombor Vryslaw, Michiko Watanabe, Werewolf (Jack Russell), Father William, the Winter Guard (Chernobog, Darkstar/Laynia Petrovna, Perun, Red Widow, Ursa Major/Mikhail Ursus, Vanguard/Nikolai Krylenko, Vostok), Wolverine-29123 ("Old Man Logan"), the Five-created mindless Wolverine clone, Wong, Xarus, X-Men (Beast/Hank McCoy, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Kitty Pryde (aka Sprite & Shadow Cat), Wolverine/James Howlett/Logan), Yahweh (Judeo-Christian-Islamic God), Y'Bsgloth, Y'Garon, Y'Griarth, and Zofia;
    people of Salem Massachusetts, circa 1692 A.D.; Union troops in Georgia circa 1862 A.D.; forces of Vienna, Austria circa 1870 A.D.;
    rival vampire clans;
    numerous unidentified members of a Natchez, Mississippi vampire coven; over 200 victims aboard the "Blood Train"
    formerly the Legion of the Unliving (Baroness Blood/Lily Cromwell, the Carpathian, the Rat Bomber, Sarge, Shadow Colonel/Xarus, Snowsnake), Taj Nital, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Lord Vargas, 

Known Relatives: Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Elder, father, deceased), Mircea, Radu the Handsome (brothers, deceased); Prince Basarab the Great (first ruler of Wallachia/ancestor), Prince Mircea the Old (grandfather), Stephen Bathory (Prince of Transylvania, cousin);
    Zofia (first wife, deceased), Maria (second wife, deceased); Domini (third wife; estranged), Shiklah (fourth wife; estranged)
    Vlad Tepulus (son by Maria, deceased), Xarus (son), Janus/Golden Angel (son by Domini);
    Lilith (daughter by Zofia);
    Frank Drake (descendant of Dracula by Vlad Tepulus)

Place of Birth: Schassburg, Transylvania (now Sighisoara, Romania)

Base of Operations:
Real World

Marvel Universe
    Pripyat, the city nearby Chernobyl, Ukraine;
    Often (although not specified which)

    otherwise mobile;
    formerly Federal Penal Colony No. 9, Sol-Iletsk, Russia;
    formerly the Monster Metropolis, beneath Manhattan, New York;
    formerly a castle on the moon; formerly Captain Fate's Serpent's Crown ship;
    formerly the Stranger's Battleworld;
    formerly the "Blood Train";
    formerly Cornwall manor, England;
    formerly various former bases of operation in London, Paris, Boston, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C.
    Active from mid-15th Century to the modern era

Education: Tutored by finest instructors of the 15^th century; extensively self-taught

First Appearance: Based on real world 15^th century Vlad Dracula;
    (Historical) Dracula by Bram Stoker, published by Constable (1897);
    (Atlas) Suspense#7 (March 1951)
    First mentioned in the Marvel Universe: Fantastic Four I#30 (September, 1964);
    First full Marvel appearance: Tomb of Dracula I#1 (April, 1972)

Powers/Abilities: Dracula possesses all the conventional powers of a vampire, but to a far greater extent than any other, except Varnae and perhaps one or two others. 

    He has superhuman strength (typically lifting perhaps 1 ton, but sometimes far greater (enabling him to engage beings able to lift 50-70 or more; often when mystically enhanced, but perhaps in some cases due to Dracula using some mesmerism to affect his foe), speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes.
    In some circumstances, he will feast on blood prior to conflicts to maximize his abilities. 

    He is immune to aging, conventional disease, and most forms of injury (see weaknesses). He ignores most assaults and regenerates damaged or lost tissue rapidly when well-fed. In all circumstances of apparent destruction, Dracula has been revived by some means.

    Dracula feeds on the blood of others to survive. If Dracula fatally drains a victim, that person will arise in three days as a vampire. Consuming the blood of another non-fatally typically renders that victim susceptible to his mental control (even from a distance); some such victims even develop vampiric traits, such as fangs and aversion to sunlight and religious artifacts, temporarily. Those he has vampirized are typically susceptible to his control. 

    He can transform himself into a bat (of normal or human size), a wolf, and all or parts of his body into mist while retaining his intelligence.
    As a bat, he can fly at speeds approaching 100 mph.
    On at least one occasion, Dracula apparently transformed into an entire cauldron of bats.

    In addition, his powers have been, on occasion, greatly amplified and/or some of his weaknesses have been circumvented through magical sources, such as by the spells cast via the Darkholders.

    Consumption of Wolverine's blood can grant Dracula and other vampires resistance to sunlight. Bloodclocks, apparently designed by Dr. James Boggs, extended the duration of this resistance significantly.

    Dracula can temporarily mesmerize most humans with his gaze, and he can command most vampires as well as controlling mice, rats, bats, and wolves. He can strengthen his ability to impose his will on others, especially mass quantities of vampires, via meditation.

    He can mystically summon thunderstorms, although his control is inferior to that of the Asgardian thunder god, Thor, for example. 

    Dracula does not cast reflections, and he cannot be captured via conventional film.

    Dracula's intelligence is above "normal" (above average, at least), and he was tutored by some of the finest instructors of the 15^th Century. Since this time period, he has adapted well to new knowledge and technology that has developed over the following centuries. 

    He is also a good hand-to-hand combatant and an expert swordsman (able to outmaneuver the Black Knight/Dane Whitman). He is highly trained in 15^th Century arts of warfare as well as being a master military strategist.

    He has on occasion wielded a red sword of unspecified properties, but which can be used against an otherwise indestructible sword like the Ebony Blade. 

    Dracula has occasionally utilized items of magical (or other) power to enhance his own abilities and/or the abilities of others. Among these are the Espil Shade, a spell that allows a vampire to reanimate a vampire he had created that had since been destroyed; the Pendant of Paracelsus; the spells of the Darkholders, and presumably many others.

    He can recognize a van Helsing by his or her scent. 

    Dracula has some experience engineering/driving a train (at least the "Blood Train") and riding a motorcycle.

Weaknesses/limitations: Like virtually all vampires, Dracula must drink blood to survive, becoming physically weakened and through prolonged deprivation. 

    Dracula is typically highly vulnerable to silver. A combined variant of Dracula's blood dependency and weakness to silver happened when Dracula was impregnated with many minute particles of silver sometime after 1875, which weakened him, causing him to age rapidly whenever he went a considerable time without ingesting sufficient blood. Consuming enough blood restored him to normal. By the start of the 20^th Century, he had recovered from this weakness.

    Direct sunlight burns vampires, it sunlight typically remains one of Dracula's vulnerabilities. However, he has sometimes found means to resist sunlight, such as via drinking Wolverine's blood and/or the Bloodclocks. Dracula typically sleeps during daylight, and in some cases he has lapsed into a semi-comatose state. He preferably sleeps upon his native soil, and he must spend as much time as possible in contact with such soil, although the exact specifications are unrevealed. 

    Wood, such as from a stake, when pierced through the heart destroys a vampire. As the vampire slowly dies in this manner, he or she usually cannot remove the wooden object due to unspecified circumstances (see comments).

    Dracula can be held at bay or physically damaged by religious symbol (usually provided said religion existed during his human life), such as the Christian crucifix or the Jewish Star of David burned him. The strength of the belief is usually much more important than the size of the religious symbol: Dracula laughed off a cross made by the atheist Wolverine, but was sorely pained by one held by Nightcrawler, a fervent Christian.

    Certain magic items, such as the Bloodgem, are also dangerous to Dracula and other vampires. Certain spells, such as the Montesi Formula, can destroy Dracula.

    As noted under abilities, however, in all circumstances of apparent destruction, Dracula has been revived by some means; even when his decapitated head was throw into the sun. 

    Under normal circumstances, vampires cannot enter a house unless first invited, although there are many instances of Dracula circumventing such a limitation.

    Often, normal bullets pass through him, causing no harm, whatsoever. However, a hunter once shot him out of the sky while in bat form. 

    Many of Dracula's weaknesses vary under given circumstances (and, more accurately, the writer's interpretation/memory/etc.). For example, in many instances, Dracula could be held at bay for several feet by a cross. In another, he physically grabs a cross out of a man's hand (though it burns him to do so) and throws it across the room -- saying only the crucifix could kill him. He has also wielded a cross against other vampires, suffering severe burns in his own hand in the process.

Height: 6'5"
Weight: 220 lbs.
Eyes: Red
Hair: Black

History:
Dracula was born in 1430 in Schassburg, Transylvania (now Sighisoara, Romania), the second son of Vlad Dracul, aka Vlad the Elder, who later became both prince and Voivode (warlord) of Wallachia.

(Tomb of Dracula II#2 (fb)) <1444> -  The young Vlad rode to Turkey alongside his father and his younger brother, Radu, to discuss policies of peace between the Magyars and the Ottoman Empire. They were ambushed and captured by soldiers of Sultan Murad II, who then took the two sons hostage, to force Vlad the Elder to adopt policies which favored Turkey. 

    For five years, they remained prisoners, suffering much torture and humiliation, during which time Radu died, and Vlad the Elder (and his eldest son, Mircea) was killed by his own advisors (led by John Hunyadi) for his support of Turkey (see comments).

    It was in the Turkish prison that Vlad learned his lessons in cruelty.

(Tomb of Dracula II#2 (fb)) <1448> -  Vlad escaped imprisonment and returned to his home, taking the title as Voivode of Wallachia after ousting the Danestis.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1449> -  Fearing the Transylvanians who had slain his father, Vlad fled to Moldavia.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1451> -  Vlad returned to Transylvania, throwing himself on the mercy of John Hunyadi-- who schooled him in the arts of war.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2/Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb)) - Vlad married Zofia, a Hungarian noblewoman, which had been arranged by his father--Dracula hated Zofia.

(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb)) - Vlad expressed his hatred for Zofia, both physically and mentally abusing her--even going so far as to romance other women while Zofia was locked in the closet of the same room.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5 (fb1)) - Vlad forced Zofia, and the infant Lilith, to dine with him, overlooking the scene of a recent impaling.

(Giant-Size Chillers#1 (fb)) - One year after their marriage, Vlad stripped Zofia of her royal standing and gave her one night to leave the castle with her belongings and Lilith. Zofia gave Lilith to an elderly gypsy, Gretchin, paying her to care for her, and then killed herself.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1456> -  With Hunyadi's help, Dracula again became Prince of Wallachia. Dracula was opposed by the unfriendly new Sultan, Mohammed the Conqueror.

(Tomb of Dracula II#2 (fb)) - There he ordered the impalement of all those involved in his father's assassination--earning him the title of Vlad the Impaler. His second act was ordering a massed assault on the hordes of Turkey.

(Doctor Strange III#37) - Frank von Frankenstein--one of the fanatical band known as the Teutonic knights--converted the "heathens" of eastern Europe at the point of a crimsoned sword. He had many such "triumphs" of religious frenzy over reason...but he was most fiercely resisted by Vlad Tepes. Ultimately the Transylvanian tasted the sweet wine of victory, and Frank and the German knights were impaled on stakes, as was Vlad Tepes' wont.

(Dracula Lives#2-3, Bizarre Adventures#33/4) <1459> - Varnae, the first vampire, became weary of his existence, and decided to set up a successor: Vlad Tepes. Prodded on by strange dreams sent by Varnae (which Vlad took as prophetic visions), Vlad led the forces of Transylvania in fighting off the third Turkish invasion, with the help of his aid Claverling. However, Varnae had deceived Vlad with the dreams he sent, so that Vlad lost the battle.

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#1 (fb)) - Dracula's troops actually drove off the wave of Turks, but were then slaughtered by Apocalypse's Riders of the Dark. Apocalypse himself took down Dracula.

(Dracula Lives#2-3, Bizarre Adventures#33/4) - The warlord Turac, with Turac's ally Baron Korda watching, had Dracula spared, hoping that they could use him to control Transylvania. Turac had the gravely injured Vlad taken to a gypsy, Lianda, who had legendary healing prowess. Lianda, however, was a vampire, and her "healing powers" were used on Vlad.

Dracula the Vampire

(Dracula Lives#2-3, Bizarre Adventures#33/4) - Dracula only realized his powers after Turac killed his wife, Maria: Turac and his men having previously sexually assaulted her. Dracula broke free from his bonds too late to save her, but did bite and slay Turac and most of his guards. Leaving them for dead, Dracula, realized he was no longer a fit father and dropped off his young son Vlad to be raised by gypsies. It was then that Dracula was confronted by vampires sent by Varnae, who brought the Impaler to a special ordeal which Varnae arranged to determine Vlad's fitness to become new ruler of the vampires. Vlad fought Nimrod, whom Varnae had directed to pretend to be ruler of the Earth's vampires, and managed to destroy both Nimrod and Lala, a vampiress. Just then, however, a group of priests raided the vampire gathering, led by the uncle of a girl named Cristina. They destroyed Dracula-his first destruction as a vampire.

Despite Dracula being destroyed so soon after first becoming a vampire, Varnae remained firm in his decision to groom Vlad Tepes as his successor. Varnae contrived to resurrect Dracula with the blood of Cristina Virag, before this time a virgin, shed upon penetration after intercourse with one of Varnae's minions, Serge Dobogoko. The returned Dracula thanked Cristina for her inadvertent assistance. Horrified, Cristina returned to her uncle, but Varnae had already slain him. Serge took on his true, vampiric form, but Dracula killed him. Varnae then, despite Dracula's resistance, fed Vlad his blood, making him the monarch of the undead. Varnae put Vlad in a coffin to protect him from the sun and the first vampire destroyed himself by willingly walking into the day.

(Giant-Size Chillers#1 (fb)) - Vlad began to feed upon gypsies, blaming them for what he had become; among those he killed was Arni, the daughter of the gypsy Gretchen. In retaliation, Gretchen transformed Lilith into a vampiress with special powers, and sent her out to destroy her father.

(Dracula Lives#4/8, Doctor Strange III#15/2) <1459> -  Dracula returned to Castle Dracula, where he slew Anton Levka, who had usurped his castle and his holdings. He was then confronted by Father Bordia, a devil-worshipping vampire in the guise of a Catholic priest. Dracula overpowered and staked Bordia, and then found a romantic interest in Zaveria, a woman whose husband had been slain by the Turks. Sifting through Borgia's possessions, Dracula discovered a disturbing fact: a spell to destroy vampires existed within the parchments of the Darkhold--the Montesi Formula. Fearful of the Montesi Formula, Dracula took hostage the wife of the reputedly greatest thief on Earth, Murgo. For the sake of his wife, Murgo complied with Dracula's demand to filch the Darkhold from the Vatican library, a holy place where even the Lord of the Vampires could not tread. However, Murgo was ambushed and slain by the sorcerer Cagliostro, who took the dark tome for himself. Dracula slew Murgo's wife for her husband's failure, and he vowed hatred undying on Cagliostro for his actions.

(Tomb of Dracula II#2) <1459> -  Dracula invited Sultan Murad II to Castle Dracula, where he gained his revenge. The Brides of Dracula vamped Murad's soldiers, and Dracula put the bite on Murad, before tossing his corpse to his assembled troops outside.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - It was around this time that Dracula, without the proper basis for doing so, assumed the title of Count. He remained in his Castle in South Transylvania for over a century.

(Dracula Lives#12/3) <1465>- Dracula was visited by emissaries of various countries -- Vargas of Spain, von Roon of Prussia, and Benitio of Bologna -- who on behalf of their respective lords, asked Dracula and his followers to stay out of those countries. Dracula and his vampires then descended on the emissaries, apparently vampirizing them. 

    Dracula then decided to visit their realms and beyond. Eventually, he grew bored and returned to Transylvania, but in his journeys, he had bitten and killed the sister of a man named Hans, who sought vengeance. Hans nearly died from frostbite in his long trek to Transylvania, and was nursed back to health by Rache van Helsing. The two fell in love, but eventually Hans went after Dracula, and was slain by him. 

    Rache, pregnant with Hans' child vowed that her unborn son and all of his descendants would face and eventually destroy Dracula--starting the long of enmity between the van Helsings and Dracula.

(Dracula Lives#13/3) <1471] - Dracula fought off an attempt by the Magyars to steal some of his serfs. One of the serfs, Giorgia Bathory, became obsessed with Dracula after he saved her from being ravaged, but he had no interest in her. Dracula confronted Baron Hunyadi--one of the younger sons of John Hunyadi--whom he believed to be responsible for the attack and threatened to kill him should he ever try something similar again. Giorgia, insane with jealousy, made an alliance with Hunyadi and tried to stake Dracula during the daylight hours, but her obsession with him caused her to wait too long, and he awoke, bit and slew her. Dracula then freed his serfs, to end this problem, and abdicated his rule.

Dracula in the 16^th Century

(Tomb of Dracula I#60(fb, BTS)) <1553> -  As Vlad Tepulus grew to adulthood, the gypsies taught him to hate his father, Dracula. He tried multiple times to slay Dracula before Dracula finally slew him instead.

BTS- Dracula encountered and put the bite on Rosella Carson, taking her to live in Castle Dracula.

(Dracula Lives#3/3) - The Puritan adventurer Solomon Kane came to Transylvania in search of Rosella Carson. Kane was nearly overcome when attacked by a pack of wolves, but Dracula intervened and saved him. Later, Kane was accosted by and slew the vampiric Rosella, and then battled Dracula. Kane defeated Dracula in a swordfight, but ultimately had to use a handful of silver coins to incapacitate him before preparing to behead him. However, Dracula called in Kane's debt for his life, and Kane allowed him to live.

(Fantastic Four III#36 - BTS) -  Dracula encountered Diablo.

(Savage Sword of Conan#26/3 (fb)) - Dracula seduced and took possession of a girl named Julka. Her father Franz, a priest, went after Dracula and was slain by him. Julka's mother locked the windows and placed garlic to ward off Dracula from her other daughter, Morgit, but the mother died of a heart attack after seeing Dracula outside the windows.

(Savage Sword of Conan#26/3) - Guilt over not destroying Dracula ate at Solomon Kane as he continued to hear news of Dracula's activities; he returned to Transylvania to put things right. He met up with and was joined by Morgit. Kane came prepared, armed with a wooden sword, garlic, and other weapons, but Dracula, at the full height of his powers, toyed with him. He disarmed Solomon and knocked his sword into the fire. Kane retrieved his sword and hurled it at Dracula, who turned to mist and allowed it to pass through him, into the impaled corpse of Morgit's father. However, when Dracula returned to "human" form, the flames leapt onto his cape. Dracula called up a wind to put out the flame and divest Kane of his garlic. Dracula had Kane at his mercy, but Kane had one last weapon, his most potent defense of all. Kane prayed to the Lord, and Dracula's winds lifted the impaled, burning corpse's arms into the air, forming a blazing cross. Weakened and distracted, Dracula fell victim to Kane, who retrieved his sharpened cross from Morgit and staked the vampire.
However, it was mere hours later that a group of hungry travelers passed by the castle, saw the jeweled cross stuck in the skeleton's chest, and thought they might want it for themselves...

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - This was at least the second "death" of the vampire Dracula.

(Dracula Lives#12) <1597> -  From Snagov, a village near Castle Dracula, a man named Durenyi accepted payment to destroy Dracula. Durenyi was forced to flee from Dracula, but he learned of his weaknesses to sunlight and the cross and stole Dracula's diary--all of which he sold to the people of Snagov for a large sum of money. Dracula eventually had his revenge, slaying Durenyi, but his diary had already been sold and shipped to unknown parts of England.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - It was at this point that Dracula moved from his castle near Snagov to the castle near the Borgo Pass, where he remained for nearly four centuries. However, as others began to learn of his weaknesses, he began to travel more to find prey.

(Blade III#11 (fb)) <chronology uncertain> - At some point, Dracula salted the Earth around his castle to protect it from certain magics.

 Dracula in the 17^th Century

(Dracula Lives#4/3) <1606> -  Dracula encountered Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess, seeking to force her to become his vampiric servant. However, her practice of bathing in the blood of virgins had made her immune to his control, and she instead proposed an alliance. She then betrayed him, trapping him in his coffin by covering it in garlic. Dracula escaped by becoming mist, and then turned her journals in to the authorities, causing her to be arrested and walled up within her own castle. Dracula confronted her within her cell and drained away the blood that had kept her young--aging her to death in seconds.

(Tomb of Dracula I#52(fb)/Tomb of Dracula II#2) - Dracula began to spend increasing amounts of time away from Transylvania, often for decades. He eventually became ruler of a province of Spain, until he was beset by a demon (in actuality the time traveling Golden Angel, associated with the spirit of his later son, Janus).

(Dracula Lives#1/2) <1691] - Tiring of his wanton Brides, Dracula magically or spiritually connected with the American woman Charity Brown in Salem, Massachusetts. Dracula placed his sign upon her (a bat over her left bosom) and began his long trek to her. However, a man whose advances she had spurned, Goodman Alden, accused her of witchcraft, and she was hung just before he arrived. Dracula slew Alden, and then made a slave woman from the West Indies, Tituba, a vampire, into his servant.

(Dracula Lives#1/2/Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1692> -  After having waited a year to allow the people to forget, Dracula had Tituba unleash his vengeance on the town of Salem. Tituba turned a number of others into vampires as well, thus precipitating the Salem witch trials.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - Dracula's contact with Charity represented the first time he felt love for another woman since Maria. This affected his future relationships with his female victims--making them less predatory and more sensual.

(Giant-Size Man-Thing#5/2 (fb)) - At approximately this time, a familiar looking vampire came to a Swiss town. All the doors and windows of the village were locked, and the vampire sated himself on the cow's blood instead. The cow returned three days later as Bessie the Hellcow and followed its murderer's trail for years until its final destruction.

Dracula in the 18^th Century

(Dracula Lives#7/3/Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - Hellyn deVill led her band of pirates one hundred miles inland, to Castle Dracula, where they stole the Dracula Pendant, a valuable item, which had great sentimental value to the Vampire Lord--being a locket of his beloved wife, Maria. Dracula tracked them back to their ship, overpowered the pirates, retook the pendant, exposed Hellyn as a witch hag, and left her to the mercy of her crew.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4/3 (fb)) <1750> - In Germany, Dracula was captured and staked by Father Eisner, although Dracula terrified the priest so much that he had a heart attack. Eisner's adopted ward, Marie, pulled the stake from Dracula and, holding him at bay with a cross, made a deal to become a vampire if he would save Father Eisner. Dracula instead tore out Father Eisner's heart. Marie again drove off Dracula with a cross, but Dracula told her that one day she would beg him to give her life.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1762> - Under the combined threats of the Turks and Catherine the Great's Russian rule, Dracula relocated to France.

    In addition, shortly after Dracula's departure, Baron Grigori Russoff took over part of his domain.

(Dracula Lives#3/7 (fb)) <1769>- In France, Dracula destroyed a stone gargoyle animated by its sculptor Jacques DuBois using a magical fluid given to him by Cagliostro. Dracula found DuBois and hurled him into a boiling cauldron.

(Dracula Lives#5/4) <1775> - Dracula was beset by assassins sent by Cagliostro. He slew the assassins after learning who sent them. He then traveled to the court of King Louis XVI and offered him a small chest of gems and requested a position as one of his advisors. Cagliostro had Dracula's servant Karlos killed, and Dracula responded by vamping Cagliostro's wife, Lorenza Serafina Feliciani.
    During this encounter, Dracula surmised that Cagliostro no longer possessed the Darkhold.

(Marvel Fanfare I#42/2) <1784> - Seeking to renew her immortality formula, Marie Laveau sent Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, back in time where she met Cagliostro and Dracula. She attempted to steal a blood sample from Dracula while he was in his daytime trance, but he awakened and she narrowly escaped with her life--and only a small bite from him.

(Dracula Lives#6/5) <July 14, 1789> - Dracula was captured in an ambush arranged by Montpellier, an agent of Cagliostro. However, when the lower class stormed the Bastille, Dracula was unwittingly freed, and he escaped. King Louis attempted to convince Dracula to aid in keeping order in France, but Dracula turned him down with disdain and left France.

 (Marvel Team-Up II#7 (fb)) <1794> - In Austria, Dracula vamped Henry Sage and his whole family.

(Werewolf by Night I#15 (fb)) <1795> - Dracula, having returned to Transylvania, encountered Grigori Russoff, and threatened him in order to force him to kneel to his power. Russoff refused, and soon after Dracula vamped Louisa Russoff, his wife. In return, Grigori put a stake to Dracula during the daylight hours. Russoff adorned Dracula's coffin with balls of garlic and threw it into the Danube river, then went to work destroying Dracula's mementos. In the process, Russoff found and freed a young woman, Lydia, who turned out to be a werewolf and attacked him, turning him into a werewolf as well. This curse followed Russoff's descendants, down to Jack and Lissa Russell.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - After being revived and retaking Castle Dracula, Dracula created defenses, such as the "Pit of Death."

Dracula in the 19^th Century

(Dracula Lives#10) <10/12-15/1809> -  In Transylvania, Dracula bit/killed a blind woman, Velanna Lupescu. When her husband, Eniko, found her and staked her, he was arrested for murder. After escaping, Eniko sought vengeance on Dracula at his castle, but was cast into "The Pit of Death", where he was confronted by the Brides of Dracula, including their newest member, Velanna.

(Dracula Lives#11) <10/15/1809> -  Eniko Lupescu held the Brides at bay with a crucifix and staked them all. He then arranged their bodies into a giant cross, so that Dracula couldn't remove the stakes. His vengeance complete, Lupescu surrendered to Dracula, taunting him to visit the Brides as Dracula bit/slew him.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4/3) <1823> -  In Germany, Dracula sought out Sister Marie Eisner, on her deathbed, seventy years after their last encounter, offering her eternal life--as a vampire. She defied him to the end.

(Dracula Lives#9/2) - Dracula vamped Countess Nikolett Vryslaw. Her husband, Count Vryslaw, kept her imprisoned in his castle, alive on animal blood.

(Dracula Lives#9/2) - Twenty years later, Count Vryslaw was forced to begin killing human women when his wife began refusing anything but human blood. Reports of "vampire slayings" attracted the attention of Dracula. Unable to harm Dracula, Vryslaw began to have a heart attack. He elected to shoot a bow into his wife's heart, destroying her, as he himself died, preventing Dracula from having either of them.

(Thor I#333 (fb) - BTS) <1845> -  Dracula attended the premiere of Wagner's Tannhauser in Dresden, Germany.

(Tomb of Dracula II#6 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula met the American girl Anabelle St. John and was enchanted by her.

(Dracula Lives#3/5 (fb)) - At some point before 1862, Dracula had the Children of Judas abduct the wife of Abraham van Helsing, a Dutch professor who was the descendant of Rache van Helsing. van Helsing had only recently inherited land in the Balkans. van Helsing confronted Dracula at an infernal ceremony, but could do nothing to stop him. Only the arrival of soldiers and priests saved the Netherlander. van Helsing's wife returned as a vampiress three days later, but her husband destroyed her.

(Tomb of Dracula I#30 (fb)) <1862> -  Lyza Strang convinced Dracula to slay her husband, Archibald, guaranteeing that Otto von Bismarck would become minister president of the German states. She then betrayed Dracula and had him ambushed and staked. Dracula, however, eventually recovered and vamped her.

(Tomb of Dracula II#6 (fb)) <8/29/1862> -  In order to be reunited with Anabelle, who had returned to the US, Dracula purchased the frigate Raven and directed its crew to take him to Savannah, Georgia.

(Tomb of Dracula II#6) <9/13/1862> -  Dracula rode the frigate Raven to Georgia, slaying seaman Jacob Buckner in the process, when he tried to steal from him. In Georgia, he met with the merchant Nathan Beauregard, whose servant, Bessie, he took a small drink from. Not liking Beauregard, he supped from his wife Sarah, and then killed Nathan, when he intruded on them. Dracula was reunited with Anabelle, and vowed to save her family from the Union army if she returned to Transylvania with him. He then entranced a legion of 99 Confederate soldiers, his Legion of the Damned, and aided by a group of rats, snakes, bats, and other vermin, he slew the Union forces. However, Anabelle's father recognized Dracula for what he was, and had him ambushed and staked. Anabelle honored her vow to Dracula, and found Dracula, removed the stake, and returned to Transylvania with him.

(Tomb of Dracula I#52 (fb)/Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1870> -  Dracula invaded Vienna, timing his coup to coincide with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. His vampire legions easily overcame all opposition and occupied Vienna. However, as he entered the Imperial Palace, he was again confronted by the horrible demon (a time traveling Golden Angel/Janus), and he fled in terror.

(Tomb of Dracula I#48 (fb)) <1875> -  When Captain Cutlass looted a French ship, he unwittingly attempted to plunder Dracula's riches, and was bitten by him, right in front of his three year old daughter, Marianne.

(Ghost Rider II#48 (fb) - BTS) - At around this time, Dracula bit a man named Cartwright, who eventually had a great-great grandson who became a vampire named Dalton.

(Journey Into Unknown Worlds#29) <1879> -  Phineas Kroner slew his daughter's suitors, who were too poor for him, seeking instead a man of royal blood. Finally Kroner found a suitor that met his approval, and brought to Maria the handsome, rich--Count Dracula. This was one of those horror tales, and Kroner obviously had no idea who Dracula was.

(Dracula Lives#13) <1875-1890> -  A retired American Marshal, hired and sent by another American who sought vengeance on Dracula for slaying his son, traveled to Castle Dracula, and slew him with a shotgun full of silver buckshot.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - Dracula was resurrected years later, but the many minute particles of silver weakened him, causing him to age rapidly whenever he went a considerable time without ingesting sufficient blood.

Adaptation of Stoker's Dracula

(Dracula Lives#5, 6/7) <5/3/1890> -  Summoned under the pretense of helping Dracula acquire land in England, Johnathan Harker traveled to Castle Dracula. He was brought by horse and carriage, by a man who may have been an aged Dracula. Dracula was intrigued by a picture of Harker's fiancé, Mina Murray, in a locket.
(DracL#6/7, 7/4) <5/5/1890> -  Dracula was overcome by bloodlust when Harker cut himself, but was fended off by the cross on his necklace. Harker found himself trapped in Dracula's castle and saw Dracula scale down the sheer rock wall, head-first. Harker was nearly vamped by the Brides of Dracula, until Dracula himself stopped them.
(DracL#7/4) <5/8, 9/1890> -  Dracula had Harker draft a series of sequentially dated letters telling his friends he was all right, then intercepted two letters Harker tried to sneak out.
(DracL#8/5) <5/28/1890> -  When Harker insisted he be allowed to leave immediately (as the date of his final letter approached), Dracula opened the door to him--a pack of snarling wolves awaited him on the outside, and he decided to stay.
(DracL#8/5) <5/29/1890> -  Harker found Dracula in his coffin within the tower. Harker sought to kill him with a shovel, but the stare of Dracula caused him to strike only a glancing blow.
(DracL#10/3) <7/6-8/6/1890> -  Dracula stowed away on the ship Demeter to London, slaughtering the crew along the way. Upon arriving in Whitby, Dracula escaped the boat in the form of a wolf.
(DracL#11/3) <8/10-11/1890> -  Dracula began to prey on the people of Whitby, including the elderly Mr. Swales, and Lucy Westenra, the friend of Mina Murray.
(DracL#11/3) <8/21/1890> -  An inmate at Stamford Asylum for the Insane, Renfield, began to discuss his new master, just before he escaped, the grate to his prison was ripped out by some superhuman force. Dr. John Seward found Renfield and returned him to the asylum, as Dracula watched from the shadows.
(Legion of Monsters#1/4) <8/24/1890> -  As Dracula's visits progressively weakened Lucy Westenra, Dr. Seward (her former suitor) summoned Dr. Abraham van Helsing to examine her. van Helsing kept her alive with transfusions and garlic to prevent further attacks--he obviously suspected the truth about the nature of said attacks. However, she took a turn for the worse when her mother removed the "horrible, strong-smelling flowers."

(Stoker's Dracula#2) <9/17/1890> -  van Helsing, recognizing the mark of the vampire, tried to save Lucy, but Dracula continued to visit her room, gaining entry as a wolf, and slaying Lucy's household. Lucy ultimately perished, returning as a vampire. Eventually, van Helsing destroyed the vampiric Lucy.
(Stoker's Dracula#3) <9/20-10/1/1890> -  Jonathan Harker had returned to England and married Mina, but Dracula began to visit Mina himself, and she slowly fell under his thrall, even as van Helsing led Harker, Seward, Quincy Morris and Arthur Holmwood to search out Dracula's spare boxes of earth. Dracula brought Mina with him to visit Renfield in his cell, and Renfield turned on him, causing Dracula to kill him. Renfield's dying words alerted van Helsing to Mina's danger, and he arrived in time to drive Dracula away from Mina with a communion wafer and crucifixes.
(Stoker's Dracula#4) <10/1-11/6/1890> -  van Helsing and his allies managed to surprise Dracula at one of the hiding places for his boxes of earth, but he escaped from them. In order to track Dracula, van Helsing used Mina's connection to the vampire in order to discern his movements. van Helsing pursued Dracula back to Transylvania. Quincy Morris and Jonathan Harker, armed with knives, impaled Dracula through the heart and apparently decapitated him. Seeing his body evaporate, they left, assuming him to be destroyed.
BTS - However, since the knives they used were not made of wood or silver, they did not hurt Dracula as they thought. Instead, Dracula, using his ability to turn into mist, tricked them into thinking that they had destroyed him, and when they left, he returned to corporeal form.

(Dracula Lives#1/6) <late 1800s> -  In Vienna, Dracula sought a cure or an end to his vampirism from the scientist Du Monte. However, Du Monte was a fraud, and he sent Dracula on a mission to steal some research papers--in the process of which he slew the scientist who might have helped him. Du Monte attempted to kill Dracula and then study his corpse, but Dracula vamped him instead.

(Dracula Lives#12 - BTS) <1896> -  Dracula's diary, stolen and transported from Snagov three centuries earlier, made it into the hands of Bram Stoker, who decided to write a novel based on it.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1897> -  Bram Stoker's novel was published.

(Dracula Lives#2/4) <11/6/1897??> -  Dracula, a bolt from van Helsing's crossbow in his side, wrote a letter accusing Stoker of lying, Harker of being addled on opium, and van Helsing being descended from a family of magicians with a long-running enmity with Dracula's family. This letter also revealed his plan to leave another vampire in his place, to be staked by the vampire hunters. In addition, the letter contained a curse that whosoever first found it would be victims of his vampire legions, the Children of the Night. The letter was not found until centuries later, by two American journalists, Mark Cordier and David Frazier, who investigated Castle Dracula after the events of the Tomb of Dracula I#1--and did indeed fall victim to its curse.

(Tomb of Dracula I#1 (fb)/Tomb of Dracula I#2 - BTS) - van Helsing traced Dracula back to his castle, due to the assistance of a young boy named Carl von Harbou. Although von Harbou served Dracula, he decided to betray his master to van Helsing. Finding Dracula in his coffin, van Helsing drove a stake through Dracula's heart.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - Dracula's body was found by an unidentified person, who, lacking the knowledge to insure his eternal death, placed the body in a coffin, placed the coffin in a cave, and had an immense stone placed over the mouth of a cave--larger than even a vampire's prodigious strength could move.

(Frankenstein Monster#7-9) <1898> -  Under the guise of bringing the monster to the last living Frankenstein, a gypsy woman, Marguerita, had him open the cave and pry open the giant tomb. However, instead of the last Frankenstein, the tomb contained Dracula. Marguerita revealed herself to be a vampire, and removed the stake from Dracula, resurrecting him. The monster slew Marguerita, and after an inconclusive struggle Dracula (weak after his period of...death), fled to refuel. The monster caught up to Dracula, used a cross to prevent him from entering his coffin as the sun came up, and then staked the weakened vampire lord. Frankenstein: 1, Dracula: 0

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#1 (fb) - BTS) - Seeking vengeance on Apocalypse for his assault centuries before, Dracula began vamping members of London's Clan Akkaba, the descendants of Apocalypse. One of the Clan, Jack Starsmore (apparently, part of the local constabulary) investigated the killings and burned off the Clan Akkaba tattoos from the first four victims before they were discovered, but the fifth one's tattoo was discovered. The most fit of the Clan, Hamilton Slade, went to seek out the killer himself, but instead was vamped by Dracula. Following Slade's disappearance, the Clan awakened Apocalypse.

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#2 (fb)) - Abraham van Helsing, drawn by the nature of the "killings," tracked down Jack Starsmore and revealed Dracula's involvement. Starsmore brought van Helsing to meet Apocalypse and the rest of the Clan. Having had some past experience with an Egyptian race of vampires, Apocalypse believed van Helsing and agreed to accompany him to the morgue. There they were confronted by the now fully vampirized Clan Akkaba members, whom they destroyed.
    Meanwhile, Slade brought Dracula to Alexandria House, Clan Akkaba's base, and instructed his mother, Margaret Slade, to come meet his new guest.

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#3 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula vamped the rest of Clan Akkaba, with the exception of Margaret Slade, plus Jack Starsmore and Frederick Ferguson, who had accompanied Apocalypse.

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#3 (fb)) - Slade and the rest of the vampirized Clan Akkaba ambushed Apocalypse, van Helsing, Jack Starsmore, and Frederick Ferguson as they returned to Clan Akkaba. Ferguson teleported himself and his allies to safety; the vampires soon tracked them down and attacked again, but the vampires were destroyed by the dawn of the new day. Apocalypse, however, was bitten by one of the vampires during the conflict. Dracula returned to his Transylvanian Castle and awaited the arrival of Hamilton & Margaret Slade.

(X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula#4 (fb)) - Dracula drained the blood of a helpless woman victim right in front of the Slades, then criticized Hamilton for failing to slay his false god. When Margaret insulted Dracula for his statement, Hamilton tore her throat out. As Apocalypse, van Helsing, Jack Starsmore, and Frederick Ferguson approached, Dracula sent his human and vampire legions after them. Via his vampire bite, Dracula tracked down and his foes, sending rats, bats, and wolves against them. As their underlings fought, Apocalypse confronted Dracula in his castle, but the vampire bite rendered Apocalypse susceptible to Dracula's control. Dracula prepared to vamp Apocalypse, but then van Helsing threw holy water in Dracula's face. Apocalypse took advantage of Dracula's weakness, skewering him through the heart and then decapitating him. However, Apocalypse refused to follow van Helsing's orders any further and left the body without a permanent stake in its heart or without burning its body.

(Tomb of Dracula I#20 (fb)/Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) <1899> -  Dracula slew Abraham van Helsing.

Dracula in the 20^th Century

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition#17) <1900> -  By this point, Dracula had recovered from the aging weakness caused by the silver buckshot.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - With both England and Transylvania on alert against him, Dracula transported himself to Spain.

(Tomb of Dracula I#48 (fb)) <1903> -  In Madrid, Dracula again encountered Marianne Cutlass, who had been caring for (and containing) her vampire father. When Dracula assaulted Marianne, her father broke free and tried to save her, and Dracula staked him.

(Dracula Lives#9/5) <1903> -  In Madrid, Death itself, in the guise of Carlos Muerte, sought to destroy Dracula for preventing souls from passing on--and succeeded by mobilizing a mob to ambush him.

(Dracula Lives#9/5) <1903> -  A few months later, a pair of grave robbers pulled the stake from Dracula, reviving him. Dracula bit and slew the two men, and then found those who had slain him and turned them his vampire slaves. He led them against Muerte in San Cristo, but had neglected the time difference between the areas, and both he and his small army were incinerated by the rising son. However, as he died, Dracula called to one of his other vampire servants, who placed his ashes on his native soil, reviving him again. Muerte revealed himself to be Death, and then conceded defeat--calling a temporary truce.

(Invaders I#9 (fb)) - Prior to World War I, Dracula was visited in his crypt by John Falsworth, who had designs on taking control of Dracula to use him as a weapon. Instead, Dracula took control of him, and transformed him into a vampire. He then sent him back to England as Baron Blood to wreak havoc there.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - It is during the chaos of World War I that Dracula most likely slew Jonathan Harker.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4 (fb) - BTS) - At some point during the 1920s the vampire-lord Dracula boarded the ship of Captain Ryan Birks. Over time, Dracula presumably drank the blood of and/or slew most, if not all, of the crew. Bitten, Birks was tied to the ship's steering gear; nonetheless, his body obeyed Dracula's commands.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4) - Under Dracula's direction, Birks directed the ship towards a lighthouse on Harrow's Point, on the coast of Maine. Approaching land, the ship crashed against rocks, and Dracula traveled to land on his own power, leaving Birks behind, apparently with a broken neck.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4 (fb)) - Dracula enthralled and drank from a young girl, Angelica Neal, who lived with her family in a light house on the coast of Maine. When they prevented him from reaching her, he bit and slew her mother, Laurie. Frank Neal, following advice from a doctor, who might have been Quincy Harker, eventually drove off Dracula using a cross symbol painted with blood on the lighthouse light.

(Punisher VII#14 (fb)) <1923> -  Dracula took the fight to the duo of Ulysses Bloodstone and Hellsgaard, who had been slaying monsters and vampires. Dracula threw the armored Hellsgaard through a portal into Limbo.

(Dracula Lives#8/2) <1926> -  In Rome, Dracula made an enemy of gangster Nick Diablo, who put out several hits against him. Dracula vamped each of the hitmen, including Maria Petrella, Alonzo DeRose, Umberto Mammone and Guisippi Mainardi, as well as Nick's girlfriend, Luisa Morelli, and then sent them all after him: they vamped him.

(Tomb of Dracula I#48(fb)) <1926> -  In Rome, Dracula encountered Marianne Cutlass once again, and vamped her husband, Count Marcos de la Triana. Heartbroken, Marianne waited in her car until her husband returned to her and made her a vampire as well.

(Giant-Size Dracula#5) <late 1920s/early 1930s?> -  In Marseilles, Dracula encountered a man known only as the Frenchman, a government agent. The Frenchman discovered that Dracula was controlling his superior, and wounded Dracula, causing the vampire to pursue him across the country for a month. Their battle culminated in a zeppelin, which crashed and exploded when Dracula bit/slew the pilot. The Frenchman leapt to safety before the explosion and survived, but Dracula was nowhere to be seen.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2) - Quincy Harker, son of Jonathan, had by this time grown to manhood and organized an extensive task force dedicated to destroying Dracula. This may be the reason he headed to the USA.

(Giant-Size Dracula#4) <1934> -  Dracula bit/slew several people on his ocean cruise to the USA, during which he met Beverly Carpenter. In America, he was drawn to Devil's Lake, North Dakota, where he encountered and opposed the Devil's Heart.

(Bizarre Adventures II#1/3 (fb)) <"Just before World War II, so presumably 1939> - Dracula entered the Radium Girl lounge where the Russoff Trio was playing. He was immediately drawn to a young woman, to whom he introduced himself as Count Orlok and who introduced herself as the widowed Eveline O'Reilly (unbeknownst to Dracula, she was the daughter of Abraham van Helsing; presumably the son of the Abraham van Helsing who died in 1900 A.D.). 

    Out on a balcony, Eveline noted his true identity and then -- as he drew close, presumably intending to bite her neck -- revealed her father's identity and pulled out a cross on her necklace. Nonetheless, she noted that while they would dance in the future, tonight, she hunted wolves. As the Russoff trio transformed, Dracula and Eveline assaulted the werewolves. Dracula was clearly impressed with Eveline, but she departed without a parting word.  

(Bizarre Adventures II#1/3 (fb) - BTS) - Over the succeeding decades, Dracula and Eveline apparently encountered each other multiple times, trading back and forth the upper hand. He, at least, remained intrigued with her. 

(Marvel Comics Presents#77-79) <July, 1942> -  Dracula found his human gypsy servants were being destroyed by the Nazis; he retaliated by joining forces with Sgt. Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos against Nazi forces in Transylvania, even after the Commandos learned who and what he was. Before departing, Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton vowed to inform Dr. Abraham van Helsing (see comments) of Dracula's whereabouts. Dracula welcomed such a challenge.

(Dracula Lives#2/5 - BTS) <1944> -  Nazis, led by Hauptmann Rudolph Kriss, set up a base in Castle Dracula. When vampire killings began, Kriss, suspecting one of them to be the vampire, had all of the gypsies slain. Ultimately, his second-in-command, Lt. Gert Hanson, correctly determined that Kriss was the vampire--though he himself knew it not--and staked him. Hanson suspected that the spirit of Dracula had possessed the man--this is further verified by the text piece in Tomb of Dracula II#3/2.

(Tomb of Dracula I#33 (fb)) <1945> -  Dracula attacked Quincy and Elizabeth Harker at the opera. Both survived, although Elizabeth was nearly drained of blood.

(Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (fb) - BTS) - Dracula and Baron Blood allied with Professor Andre Thorton, based out of the Ravencroft institute, who would work to purge vampires of their weaknesses in exchange for Dracula using his influence over Transylvania to have them enter World War II on the side of the allies. 

(Ravencroft I#4 (fb)) - Dracula was present alongside Baron Blood as Dr. Thorton experimented on World War II veteran/post-traumatic stress disorder victim William "Bud" Connor. 

(Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (fb)) <1945 (see comments)> - As another of Thorton's experiments failed, Dracula questioned whether he should follow through with influencing Transylvania's involvement. Thorton urged patience but also suggested Dracula could join up with Germany, who was beginning to lose the war. Irate at such insolence, Dracula grabbed Thorton by the neck and lifted him into the air, leading Ravencroft security, armed with silver bullets, to warn Dracula to put Thorton down. As Thorton again urged patience, Dracula saw a monitor showing the arrival of Captain America and Bucky -- who had come there in hopes of rescuing Lt. William "Bud" Adams -- and noted that they were out of time.

    Transforming into mist, Dracula confronted the heroes, and Cap sent Bucky to seek out Bud while he took care of Dracula. Dodging Captain America's shield by turning into a bat, Dracula flew at Cap, who caught him with his hand. Turning back into humanoid form, Dracula smashed Cap to the ground only to be stunned when Cap's shield returned and struck him in the back of the head. Baron Blood then hurled Cap into a wall and then prepared to slay him, but Jonas Ravencroft -- resenting the appropriation of his facilities and mistreatment of his patients -- then unleashed Ravencroft's "unwanted" experiment victims/mutates. Dracula and Baron Blood fled in the ensuing chaos.

(Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme#8/2) - Dracula attacked a female villager near Castle Mordo in Transylvania, but was driven off by Baron (Karl) Mordo, who wanted to use her himself as a human sacrifice.

(Suspense#7) <1951> -  A man named Tartoff talking to a person whom he believed to be horror writer Sandor Xaviar, explained that Dracula had preyed on his family for years. Tartoff somehow believed that if Dracula had not managed to take his blood that night, Dracula would be destroyed forever. Just before dawn, Tartoff handed "Xaviar" his wooden stake-- but "Xaviar" was in fact Dracula...

(Avengers I#187 (fb, BTS), Amazing Spider-Man Annual#22 (BTS), Web of Spider-Man Annual#4 (BTS), Doctor Strange III#9/2) -
    At some point between 1930 and 1958, Dracula began to observe the lycanthropy-stricken Gregor Russoff, correctly believing him to possess the Darkhold as part of his effort to cure himself. Dracula watched behind the scenes many events at Wundagore; he saw events unfold as Russoff summoned Chthon, who was driven off by the Knights of Wundagore, and then a second time by Russoff, aided by Magnus.

(Tomb of Dracula I#20 (fb2)) - Dracula slew Rachel van Helsing's parents when she was nine years old. Quincy Harker showed up and drove Dracula off before he could vamp young Rachel as well.

(Tomb of Dracula I#30 (fb)) - Dracula slew Paul Knight after he had killed his wife during a heated argument. He was quite surprised at the rage of their blind toddler, Melanie.

(Dracula Lives#5/5 (text)) - In Tarnington, Dracula sought the power of the demons Ypsilloth and Ryg, which had been buried beneath the Jennings Mill forty years before. He was thwarted by a man named Mason. In the process, he bit and briefly manipulated Lucas Bane.

(Dracula Lives#6/4 (text)) - Dracula traveled to the medical research facility in Brass Monkey, New Mexico, where he bit a prostitute, Jennifer Hobarth, and used her as a contact to gain aid in breaking into the hospital blood bank. He had no sooner entered the vault--and found the packed red blood cells and fresh frozen plasma, which were useless to him--when he was located by Father Vergilius Flotsky, an aging priest who had been on his trail. Dracula fled to the streets and escaped, taking nurse Marie De Voe--the fiancé of Dr. James Lloyd Barrett--with him.

(Dracula Lives#7/2 (text)) - Hobarth, Barrett, and Flotsky managed to hold off Dracula long enough that he had to flee as dawn arrived. Barrett located Dracula's coffin and took it and Dracula for medical research, but their car was hit by two drunken rednecks. The car was not discovered until dusk...

(Tomb of Dracula I#15 (fb)) - Dracula encountered Orphelus, who tricked Dracula into bringing him to the immortality granting Pool of Blood, only to destroy it--intending to destroy Dracula as well. Dracula narrowly escaped the destruction of the Pool.

(Marvel Preview#3 (fb)) - Dracula encountered Jamal Afari, who was later the mentor to Blade.

(Marvel Preview#3 (fb) - BTS)) - Dracula later stalked Jamal Afari down and killed him, transforming him into a vampire. Blade was forced to kill his mentor as a result, and swore to one day destroy Dracula.

(Tomb of Dracula I#60 (fb)) - In Paris, Lilith began following Dracula, stopping him from taking in victims by taking those he stalked first. She carried this threat out for five days, eventually following him to London, where he impaled her on one the spikes on the gate outside Big Ben.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/2 - BTS) <1968> -  Dracula traveled to the Far East.

(Tomb of Dracula I#29 (fb)) - In India, Dracula and a legion of vampires attacked the village of Taj Nital, vamping his son, Adri, and slashed Taj's throat, rendering him mute. Dracula was driven off by Rachel van Helsing.

(Tomb of Dracula I#15 (fb) - BTS) - About this time he also slew young Scotsman Eric Duff.

(Tomb of Dracula I#30 (fb)) <1968?> -  In China, Blade and his band of Vampire Hunters (Orji Jones, Ogun Strong, Azu, and Musenda) posed as allies of Dracula and then staked him. The stake was removed by his servant, Kuai Hua, and her handmaidens.

(Blade III#11 (fb)) - Dracula slew Orji Jones, Ogun Strong, and Azu, then departed, noting how easily he could have killed Blade and demanded that Blade would similarly spare him in the future.
    Musenda was nearly slain and assumed dead by both Blade and Dracula.

(Bizarre Adventures II#1/3 (fb)) - Decades after their initial encounter, Dracula traveled to the mansion of the elderly and dying Eveline O'Reilly, leaving a white rose on her windowsill.

(Dracula Lives#1 (fb)) - Learning of Jackson Kubbard (a man claiming to be the reincarnation of Cagliostro) while in London, Dracula had his coffin shipped to Manhattan to investigate.

(Dracula Lives#1) - In Manhattan, he learned Jackson Kubbard was a fraud. He also met Made Rogers, a member of Kubbard's Mysticology Cult, and suffered from withdrawal after unwittingly consuming the blood of a drug addict.

(Dracula Lives#2/7 (fb)) - Marie Laveau had her servant, Gaston, remove Dracula's coffin and bring it to New Orleans.

(Dracula Lives#2/7) - After Dracula vamped a girl in a New Orleans cemetery, Laveau magically drew him to her. She managed to hold Dracula at bay long enough to obtain a sample of his blood for her immortality serum. She then proposed an alliance, but he refused, because she had bound him by force.

(Dracula Lives#3/7) - Arriving in Paris, Dracula was attacked by Hélène DuBois, great-great granddaughter of Jacques DuBois. He defeated her, but was then attacked by the stone gargoyle, now animated by Jacques' spirit. Dracula led the Gargoyle to fly after him and caused it to shatter against the Eiffel Tower.

(Dracula Lives#5/8) - Dracula was aboard an airplane from Hollywood to New York, when a terrorist/madman tried to hijack the plane and fly it into the sunrise. Dracula attacked the man, who set off the bomb and crashed the plane. Dracula then bit the man and left him to be disintegrated by a sunrise.

(Dracula Lives#7) <1/12-15/1974> -  Dracula left Boston and went to Washington, DC, after Richard Grant, one of the leaders of his East Coast followers was killed. Dracula avenged his death by biting and killing Mildred Wilson, who had killed Grant and all those involved with the Broadway Project. The intro of the story referred to the killer as the "Death Man."

(Dracula Lives#8) - In Manhattan, Dracula was wounded by the splintered nightstick of patrolman Lou Garver. Dracula bit/killed his wife, Jean, as punishment, but was again driven off by Garver.

(Dracula Lives#9) - Garver staked his wife, and was mistakenly charged with her murder. Dracula sought to recover artifacts stolen from his castle by Anton Rizzoli, but was driven off a cross-wielding Rizzoli. The thief then sold the item at an auction, and they were bought by Ursula Lensky, a woman obsessed with Dracula. Dracula then vamped her, and sent her off to finish off Rizzoli. After she did so, she was staked by Garver, who had had her followed: Garver vowed to dedicate his life to destroying Dracula for killing his wife.

(Dracula Lives#8/3 (text)) - Dracula vamped Roberta Christianson, a CIA pilot(?), who continued to fight him even after she became a vampire. Ultimately, she crashed her own plane, in an effort to destroy him. He escaped the crash, though she did not: He allowed her this final death, acknowledging her as a worthy foe.

(Dracula Lives#9/4) - In Crayton, Illinois, Dracula tried to vamp Joe Don Mahoney, but fled after Mahoney's friends showed up. He then vamped Julie, despite the efforts of her boyfriend, Jimmy Hodges.

(Dracula Lives#13/2) - In Paris, Dracula met an American girl, Mary, who had left her country after being dumped by a series of men. Desperate for his love, she willingly became a vampire, but when he, too, left her, she impaled herself on a stake.

(Marvel Preview#12/4 (fb)) - On a Tuesday around 11:30 PM, Dracula attacked a woman named Andrea Simmons in her apartment. Her body was missing.

(Marvel Preview#12/4) - The policeman investigated the murder. A Lieutenant Chapel spoke with Simmons' boyfriend James Nagle at the apartment. Simmons returned to her apartment, now a vampiress. She slew Nagle, but Chapel grabbed some swizzle sticks to make an impromptu cross. Breaking wood to make stakes, he punctured the hearts of Simmons and Nagle. Dracula, however, dropped in. Realizing he had not the power to attack Dracula, Chapel impaled his own heart with a stake. Dracula removed the stake and bit Chapel who returned as a vampire.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3/5) - Over the period of a few months, Dracula met and eventually vamped an artist named Amber. As she began to complete her transformation into a vampire, she painted a picture of a crucifix, incinerating herself in the process.

(Tomb of Dracula II#4) - Dracula drank from a young girl, entertaining her with stories about Angelica.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5/2) - Dracula vamped the ballerina Odette Byelai. She attempted to maintain her dance for as long as she could, but she eventually staked herself as her dance and soul continued to dwindle.

(Tomb of Dracula II#1 (fb)) - Seeking the power of the Yazdi Gem, Dracula attacked and killed a possessor of one of its fragments, Augustus Ebers. However, the power of the gem allowed Ebers to survive the death of his body, and Dracula was unable to remove the gem set into the ring from Ebers' finger.

(Avengers VI#15 (fb) - BTS) <According to Dracula> - Howard Stark visited Dracula in Castle Dracul, apparently seeking to escape his own mortality. Howard allegedly dropped to his knees and cried, offering Dracula anything he wanted, even the child he had adopted (Tony), in exchange for Dracula giving Howard a sip of Dracula's blood). 

(Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#8/2) - In Varf Mandra, Baron Mordo stopped Dracula from preying on a peasant woman, telling him that the villagers there may only be cattle, but they were his cattle. Dracula, not wishing to engage a sorcerer over something so easily replaced, agreed to leave that section of Transylvania to Mordo, but warned him not to be caught after Sundown beyond the Borgo pass.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#9/2) - After Russoff's death, Dracula lost contact with the Darkhold, as it was sent to California to Russoff's wife.

(Winter Guard#3 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula "often crossed paths <with Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov)> during the Cold War (see comments). Dracula considered Shostakov a worthy opponent.

(Winter Guard#3 (fb)) - In a cavern, the Red Guardian held a stake over the sleeping Dracula. 

(Black Cat I#1/3 (fb) - BTS)) - Using the alias of Thomas J. Murray, the Black Fox plotted to steal from Dracula: With planned assistance from his students, Walter Hardy and Castillo Drake, the Black Fox arranged to gamble with Dracula  at a Miami resort and then provided information about to monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone.

(Black Cat I#1/3 (fb) - BTS)) - Playing baccarat against Dracula, the Black Fox did well via cheating.

(Black Cat I#1/3) - As Dracula -- who repeatedly mispronounced the Black Fox's alias as Morris, Mallory, etc. -- finally won a round, Ulysses Bloodstone kicked the door in. As Dracula and a pair of unidentified vampires fought Bloodstone, the Black Fox grabbed his winnings and fled, escaping via a grappling device that lowered him into the car in which Hardy and Drake waited. Although Bloodstone staked one of Dracula's agents and Drake staked the other, Dracula apparently transformed into a cauldron of bats and flew after them.

(Black Cat I#1/3 (fb) - BTS)) - Black Fox, Drake, and Hardy escaped Dracula's forces somehow.

(Tomb of Dracula I#40 (fb)) - On Rachel van Helsing's sixteenth Birthday, Dracula visited and seduced her, overcoming her will and forcing her to drop her crucifix. Again, Quincy Harker arrived and saved her life.

(Captain America I#253 (fb) - BTS) - While in England, Dracula had one of his human lackeys, Dr. Jacob Cromwell, locate the corpse of Baron Blood and remove the stake from it. Blood was reformed, made Cromwell his first new victim, and subsequently posed as Cromwell to fit into modern society.

(Nightstalkers#11 (fb)) - Dracula killed a woman named Suze Harlow in a place south of the Mason-Dixon line. Her death traumatized her father Jeb. Rather later, Hydra would examine Suzie's body to create Bloodstorm.

(Tomb of Dracula I#15 (fb)) <Approximately 3 years before Tomb of Dracula I#1> - The Scotsman Ewan Duff, father of Eric, slain by Dracula four years before, staked Dracula in Castle Dracula, at the cost of his own life. Dracula tumbled into his own Pit of Death.

(Before the Fantastic Four: The Storms#1-3) - Dracula, still on the stake, mentally sent his agent, Comte. St. Germaine, to the USA to obtain the Amulet of Zarathos, hoping its power could resurrect him and enhance his powers. St. Germaine was foiled by the young Johnny and Sue Storm. Why the frick didn't Drac just summon St. Germaine to his castle to remove the stake??? (see comments)

Dracula in the Modern Era

(Tomb of Dracula I#1) - Frank Drake went with his friend Clifton Graves and lover Jean Ovington to Transylvania to inspect the castle Drake inherited: Castle Dracula. While there, Graves stumbled onto the remains of Dracula from his battle with the Scotsman. He foolishly removed the stake, reviving Dracula. Dracula threw Graves into the Pit of Death. Dracula vampirized Jean, leaving Drake in sorrow.

(Tomb of Dracula I#2 - BTS) - Drake hired a lackey from the town to aid him in removing Dracula's coffin, and also freeing Graves. 

(Tomb of Dracula I#2) - Dracula forced Carl von Harbou, now an adult, to fix him up, and then slew von Harbou for his boyhood betrayal. Drake sold various goods from the castle to gain funds, and then headed off to London. Jean, now Dracula's slave, followed, and managed to enthrall Graves. However, though Dracula himself confronted Drake, he had to flee with the sun, and Jean was staked and disintegrated.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#3) - Rachel van Helsing, Taj Nital, and Frank Drake stole Dracula's coffin from him, hoping it would hinder him in some way.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#4) - The appropriately named Ilsa Strangway offered Dracula an escape route if he turned her into a vampire in hopes that she could regain her former, younger appearance. He accepted, but neither party received quite what they wanted: Dracula despised the escape route when he learned that it was safe travel to the past through her magical mirror, while being a vampire granted Ilsa immortality but not youth.

    In the end, Ilsa asked Rachel van Helsing to end her existence, and Dracula found that he must accept the mirror trip to avoid capture. So he did, being followed by Taj through the mirror into what, according to Ilsa, was not the past, but a realm of monsters.

(Tomb of Dracula I#5) - Dracula used the Black Mirror to return to the 19^th century to prevent his staking at the hands of van Helsing. He arrived too late, but decided to still slay van Helsing. However, Rachel van Helsing and Taj also time-traveled back, and saved Abraham van Helsing. Dracula's lackey Lenore DeCade could not stop them. All parties returned to their present.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#6) - Dracula, Lenore, Rachel van Helsing, Frank Drake and Taj all returned to the 21^st century. Lenore was killed by an crossbow bolt meant for Dracula. Rachel and Frank Drake were trapped by Dracula and rescued by Randolph Dering, the "Moorlands Monster".

(Tomb Of Dracula I#7) - Returning to England, Dracula went after a young woman, but was driven off by her crucifix -- all the while unaware that she was Edith Harker, the daughter of his enemy, Quincy. Dracula mesmerized a large group of children to serve as his Legion of Doom. Her then bit and fatally drained Buckley Grainger outside of Harker's mansion, fought the assembled Vampire Hunters, and then drew them back to his Castle. He duped them into staking a corpse made up to look like him and then ambushed the group. He was forced to flee when Harker nailed him with a poison dart, but as he did he set his Legion of Doom upon them.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#8) - Dracula met Dr. Heinrich Mortte (a vampire himself) for help with the poisoned dart Quincy Harker used on him. He briefly attempted to raise an army of artificially-created vampires, but was stopped by Dr. Mortte. Dr. Heinrich Mortte's secret was discovered by daughter Adrian and Dr. Mortte then destroyed the projector and himself.

(Tomb of Dracula I#9 (fb)) - Dracula attempted to feed off some children to regain his strength, but they easily eluded him in his weakened state. He was found by a motorcycle gang, who attempted to rob him and then threw him into a river.

(Tomb of Dracula I#9) - He was found there by villagers from Littlepool, and took the alias of "Drake" amongst them. He befriended David and his lover Andrea, and drove away the vampires Corker Haller and Gladys, although exposing himself as a vampire in the process. As Father William gathered mobs to hunt down and kill Haller and Gladys, Dracula made his exit.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#10) - Traveling aboard a ship with Clifton Graves (now his servant), Dracula was attacked by Blade. To evade him, he blew up the ship, seemingly killing Graves.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#11) - Dracula hunted down the motorcycle gang that had hounded him, and made its leader, Lucas Brand, into a vampire.

(Tomb of Dracula I#12) - Immediately after his murder of Elizabeth Langley, Harker's men confronted Dracula. However, Dracula managed to abduct Edith Harker. Using her as bait, he lured his enemies into a confrontation at a booby-trapped mansion. Dracula did not succeed in destroying them, and fled. Quincy destroyed Edith after he saw her vampirized.

(Tomb of Dracula I#13) - Dracula prevented Skinnee Shore, murderer of college coeds, from killing Cecile Parker-- but then bit her, making her a slave. Dracula took in a boxing match (!) but then left for a small town. However, a Mr. Haskell who served as an agent of Harker spotted Dracula in bat form. Harker's band encountered a slave of Dracula named Jasper O' Conner. They found Dracula, and Blade managed to slay him. However, just before Blade stuck his dagger in, Dracula had activated some of his slaves in the town to come to his aid...

(Tomb of Dracula I#14) - Dracula's slaves broke in and stole his body, but his hypnosis wore off, and they left his body in disgust. The preacher Josiah Dawn happened by, and took Dracula's corpse as a sign. Dawn decided that God had left Dracula as an example of the power of faith; by removing Blade's dagger in front of a crowded revival meeting, Dawn demonstrated the power of their faith as they all brandished crosses in Dracula's face. Dracula, despite the arrival of Harker's band, used his lightning powers to defeat Dawn, and fled.

(Tomb of Dracula I#15 (fb)) - Dracula, in bat form, was shot out of the sky by a hunter, whom he then slew.

(Tomb of Dracula I#15 (fb)) - Dracula vampirized a woman just after she had been shot by her cheating husband. Three days later, she interrupted his affairs and put the bite on him.

(Tomb of Dracula I#15) - Dracula spent some time at his memoirs, recollecting several past events of his life.

(Hulk Monster-Size Special#1/4) - Staying at his castle in Romania, Dracula found himself under attack from villagers who besieged him with flamethrowers and guns. But just when Dracula screamed to the townsfolk to leave him be, they where surprised by the arrival of the Hulk. The locals opened fire on the green giant, but the machine gun's bullets just bounced off his emerald skin, a feat Dracula was in awe of. Dracula instantly leapt from the window and drifted down to the ground, landing behind the newly arrived behemoth. The creature's back was to him as it continued to shout defiantly until the last of the villagers had fled. Dracula then bid Hulk welcome, bowing gracefully and extending every grace to the behemoth, believing him to be a fellow "monster" whose strength he could use for his own. Dracula offered him sanctuary in his castle. After failing to hypnotize the Hulk Dracula showed him to his room. During the night, the Hulk changed to Bruce Banner. The next morning, Banner ran into one of Dracula's brides who offered him to dine with them. Surprised to see Banner instead of the Hulk, Dracula understood they were one and the same. Dracula offered to keep Banner safe if he, as the Hulk would stand beside him in battle. But Banner wouldn't hear of it and wanted to leave. Dracula once more tried to hypnotize Banner but to no effect. The bride had enough of Banner and, consumed by her bloodlust, sank her teeth into Banner's throat. However, Dracula quickly yanked Banner (already sufficiently agitated he'd begun to transform in the Hulk) clear of her as he shoved her away. Dracula was enraged that his bride went against his orders, but even more surprised when Hulk's gamma-infused blood transformed the bride into a light-green vampire. The bride, now gunning for Dracula, stabbed him in the shoulder with a stake. Dracula quickly yanked the deadly projectile out and stabbed his bride in the chest. After which her skin burned away and her skeleton clattered to the floor. Next Dracula focused his attention on the Hulk, although the green giant had enough of the entire drama and slammed both fists on the floor. Part of the fragile, old castle around them. Dracula was forced to transform into a bat to maneuver his way through the falling debris. Once the smoke cleared, the Hulk took off leaving Dracula in the ruins of the castle that had withstood assaults from enemies over centuries.

(Winter Guard#3 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, the Red Guardian (Shostakov) delivered one of four imperfect copies of the details of Operation Snowblind (that could only be decrypted together) to Dracula, whom he considered to be the most self-invested monster he could think of, knowing that the leverage the drive offered would make it too valuable for him to surrender.

(Avengers I#118) - Dracula was among several superhumans who faced the monsters created by Dormammu as he began to merge earth with the Dark Dimension. Dormammu was ultimately defeated by the Avengers.

(Tomb of Dracula I#16) - Dracula observed as the revenant Duncan Corley slew two tomb-robbers at Highgate Cemetery. Incensed, as he intended to drink the blood of the grave-robbers, Dracula had his slave Horatio Toombs cover up all evidence of the incident. Dracula attacked Marie Komph on London Bridge, and again encountered Duncan Corley. Returning to Highgate, he saw that he had encountered Corley at the grave of Paul Beare, an old acquaintance. Dracula had another encounter with Corley at Beare House, and Inspector Chelm explained to Dracula why Corley became a revenant. Namely, Beare upset Corley's grave, since Beare, for astrological reasons, had his corpse buried in what was originally Corley's grave. Dracula resolved to bury Corley properly.

(Tomb of Dracula I#17/Tomb of Dracula II#3) - Dracula again fought Blade, and defeated him by mesmerizing him, then biting him, not realizing Blade was immune. In Versailles, Austria, he contacted his ally Henri Verne, and with his aid, stowed away on a train set for Transylvania. During his trip, he became embroiled in another fight with Drake and van Helsing, and fought off Granet and Ludwig Gruber, who mistook him for an agent of Dr. Sun.
    Aboard the train, Dracula bit and supped from Anna Reynolds, however, he was forced to leave before consuming all of her blood when Drake and van Helsing closed in on him.

(Tomb of Dracula I#18) - Dracula encountered Jack Russell, the Werewolf, and his mystic companion Topaz. Dracula attempted to make a meal of Topaz, but was fought off by the Werewolf.

(Werewolf By Night I#15) - Dracula again fought the Werewolf, and nearly defeated him when Topaz offered him the Darkhold as a trade for Russell's life. Dracula accepted, but van Helsing then stole the Darkhold from him. Desperate, Dracula chased after the helicopter.

(Tomb of Dracula I#19 (fb)) - Dracula fought his away aboard van Helsing's helicopter, and threw her pilot out to his death. Neither one being able to pilot the craft, they crashed into the Transylvanian Alps.

(Tomb of Dracula I#19) - Dracula and van Helsing were forced to look out for one another in the Alps for a time, but finally turned on each other, just as Drake arrived to rescue van Helsing. They left Dracula in the snow.

(Dr. Strange III#9/2) - Having recovered the Darkhold from Rachel when her helicopter crashed, Dracula found himself unable to destroy it and instead tossed it into the snow in the Alpines, figuring that no one would ever find it.

(Tomb of Dracula I#20) - Hunted from the sky by Drake and van Helsing, Dracula hid inside a cave, where he was captured by Clifton Graves, now working for Dr. Sun. He slew Sun's assistant Morgo, and Graves was accidentally killed by van Helsing as she and Drake arrived.

(Tomb of Dracula I#21) - Now confronted by Dr. Sun himself, and his vampire ally Lucas Brand, Dracula fought Brand, and lost; part of his strength was siphoned into Brand, but when Brand turned on Dr. Sun, Dr. Sun destroyed him.

(Tomb of Dracula I#22) - Escaping into Kamenka, Moldavia, Russia, Dracula found himself set against the vampire Gorna Storski, who refused to acknowledge Dracula's authority. Dracula fought and destroyed him for this. Dracula bit Katerina Stenski and kill Leonid Korsak.

(Giant-Size Spider-Man#1) - For his own reasons, Dracula set after Dr. A.J. Maxfield to destroy the vaccine the doctor had created, but mistakenly assumed Maxfield was a man, and almost killed someone else instead. Dracula very narrowly encountered the super-hero Spider-Man in the course of his actions, and killed former Maggia crimelord Anthony Cavelli and several of his henchmen on the Atlantic cruise ship, before flying away in bat form.

(Giant-Size Chillers#1) - Returning to London, Dracula took possession of a castle owned by Sheila Whittier. He had intended to drive her out, but finding that she had been repeatedly tortured by Lord Henry, one of his own servants, he became her "protector". He also encountered his daughter Lilith again, and the two briefly skirmished.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#23) - Dracula found that Sheila was haunted by the ghost of her father, Alestar Dunwick, and destroyed the idol which bound her father's spirit to the castle.

(Giant-Size Dracula#2) - In Rutherton, England, Dracula investigated a series of murders for which he (or another vampire) had been accused. This brought him into conflict with the demon Y'Garon and those under his control. Dracula knocked Y'Garon back through a magical Sa'arpool (portal to a race of demonic beings), which shut behind him. Dracula erased Kate Fraser's memory of Y'Garon's involvement.

(Tomb of Dracula I#24 (fb)) - Dracula attempted to feed off the exotic dancer Trudy Taylor, but she drove him off with a crucifix.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#24) - Dracula again fought Blade, a friend of Trudy's, although he managed to conceal his identity from him.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#25) - Dracula encountered the vampire detective Hannibal King for the first time, as King investigated a murder Dracula was involved in.

(Giant-Size Dracula#3) - Dracula fought, defeated, and vampirized Elianne Turac. During this struggle, he mesmerized and controlled Ruth Caulderon to become his pawn.

(Dr. Strange III#9/2) - Dracula's vampire servants informed him that Giuseppe Montesi had uncovered the lost Montesi formula, and so he went to the Vatican

(Dracula Lives#6) - Dracula traveled to Rome, hoping to slay Giuseppi Montesi, the only one who knew the secret of the Montesi formula. Under great pain, Dracula followed him into the Vatican, where he destroyed the written formula and killed Montesi. However, as he died, Montesi revealed that he had sent a copy to Quincy Harker.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#26-28) - Dracula, Sheila Whittier, and David Eshcol searched together for the mystic artifact the Chimera, which ran them afoul of Dr. Sun. Dr. Sun assaulted them with mental images, but Dracula was able to overcome them, and slew another of Dr. Sun's men. He then attempted to claim the Chimera, but Sheila, sickened by him, shattered it against a wall.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#29) - Angered by Sheila's actions, Dracula fed off Beverly Gable. Eshcol attempted to destroy Dracula in his coffin, but was overpowered and killed. Dracula returned to Shiela, attempting to entice her back to him, but she threw herself from a window rather than be with him.

(Captain America I#253 (fb) - BTS) <chronology uncertain> - While in England, Dracula had one of his human lackeys, Dr. Jacob Cromwell, locate the corpse of Baron Blood and remove the stake from it. Blood was reformed, made Cromwell his first new victim, and subsequently posed as Cromwell to fit into modern society.

(Vampire Tales#8/4, 9 - BTS - Marvel Preview#3) - Blade fought against the Legion of the Damned, who were eventually revealed to be pawns of Dracula.

(Tomb of Dracula I#30) - Dracula reflected on the passing of Sheila Whittier, and recalled several of his struggles from the past.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#31) - Inspector Chelm and Quincy Harker saved Lord Singleton from Dracula's revenge for refusing to obey his demands. Dracula learned that his powers were being drained somehow, leading to his death in a few weeks.

(Dracula Lives#4) - In Hollywood, California, Dracula vampirized Louis Belski, an aging hack of an actor who had convinced himself that he actually was Dracula. He also vampirized Liza, a director's assistant. 

(Tomb Of Dracula I#32-33) - Quincy baited Dracula into his mansion with information about the cause of his power loss. He succeeded, but learned that Rachel van Helsing was trapped by two of Dracula's female vampire allies. Harker decided that he could not let Rachel van Helsing die, and freed Dracula, whose power loss was likely to kill him shortly.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#34) - Dracula learned that Dr. Sun was behind his power loss, found and nearly killed Inspector Chelm, and was observed unknowingly by Deacon Frost. Dracula contacted businesswoman Daphne von Wilkinson to assist him in obtaining fresh blood.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#35) - von Wilkinson attempted to manipulate Dracula into a vengeance mission in exchange for information about Dr. Sun's whereabouts, but after obtaining what he needed, Dracula unleashed all the men he had fed on (Martin Beatering, Tilly Beatering, Jack Bolt, Ken Mitchell, Angie Rodgers, and Sir Winston Twindle) upon her.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#36 (fb)) - Dracula went on a rampage at an airport, and ultimately chose to steal a U.S. Air Force craft, controlling its pilot. He had the pilot bring him to Boston, and escaped from the soldiers who awaited him upon arrival.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#37) - Reporter/aspiring horror writer Harold H. Harold decided to write a vampire interview story, and ended up rescuing Dracula from his weakened state. It was apparently sheer luck of the draw that brought the two in contact with each other.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#38) - Dracula's life was saved through a rescue affected by Harold H. Harold and Aurora Rabinowitz, using stolen blood from a hospital.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#39) - Dr. Sun and his henchman Juno actually destroyed Dracula, staking him with a silver spike.

(Marvels: Eye of the Camera#3 - BTS) - The Daily Globe published an article called "Monsters on the Prowl" in their Sunday supplement. Along with the piece, a map of the US was printed, listing sightings of several infamous monsters, including Dracula.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#40-42) - The vampire hunters, desperate to defeat Dr. Sun, stole Dracula's ashes from his headquarters, and searched for a means to resurrect him. Aurora, despondent over Dracula's death, cried into the urn containing the ashes, thus resurrecting Dracula (because of the folklore that a virgin's tears could revive a vampire). He first made a meal of Cynthia Cullen, then attacked Dr. Sun with the reluctant aid of Blade. He finally destroyed Dr. Sun, ending their conflict.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#43) - Boston Bugle reporter Paul Butterworth followed a lead from Harold H. Harold and became aware of Blade and Harker's hunt for Dracula. His aid to the vampire hunters made him the focus of Dracula's vengeance, but sunrise saved him from Dracula's attack.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#44) - A chance encounter with Dr. Strange's loyal servant, Wong, led to a confrontation between Dracula and the Sorcerer Supreme. During their fight, Strange forced Dracula to relive his final fight against the Turks and his subsequent transformation into a vampire. Dracula eventually hypnotized Dr. Strange and bit him, announcing that Strange would be turning into a vampire in three days' time.

(Dr. Strange II#14) - Unknown to Dracula, Dr. Strange was no stranger to death and escaped the Lord of Vampires by separating his astral self from his body just before death. Dracula tried to slay the newly arisen vampiric Dr. Strange. As they fought, Dracula unwittingly gave Strange the key to his defeat, and the Sorcerer Supreme called upon, "Tetragrammaton, Jehovah! O Great Unmanifest, hear my plea!" Strange's very touch seared Dracula and in a burst of light, as Strange's own vampiric form was wracked with pain, the Lord of Vampires was burned into a desiccated corpse. Strange summoned Wong back from his temporary exile in a pocket dimension and by the combination in him of both Dracula's evil and the Hebrew God's purity, cleansed them both of Dracula's taint (a feat Strange admitted he could never perform twice).

(Tomb of Dracula I#45 (fb)) - Realizing that, power for power, Strange would overwhelm him, Dracula resorted to deceit by combining his ability to turn to mist with his mesmerism. Dracula turned his flesh only to mist, exposing his bone, and made Strange think he was seeing ash, rather than mist. Thus Dracula only duped Strange into thinking him to have been destroyed.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#45-46) - After Strange left, Dracula reformed. Then, claiming to be Satan, he stopped Anton Lupeski from sacrificing Domini. He took control of the cult and married Domini.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#47) - In conversation with his wife Domini, Dracula recalled some of his schemes of conquest in times past and a mysterious character who stopped them (the Golden Angel/Janus). Dracula declared his intention to conquer more by charisma than by military might for the time being, while Domini tried to talk him out of his lust for power, to no avail.

(Legion of Monsters II#3 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula destroyed Bruxal, a vampiress who had spent five centuries torturing succubae in the outer reaches of Hell to concoct a virus with the goal of building a monster army.

(Legion of Monsters II#3 (fb) - BTS) - As Dracula's agent Viktor prepared to dispose of Bruxal's corpse, Morbius, who had worked with Bruxal in her alias as Susanna, destroyed Viktor. 

(Legion of Monsters II#3 (fb)) - Dracula confronted Morbius, noting they were even, with Morbius' killing of Dracula's "dog" and the killing of Morbius' woman. Dracula confirmed that he had been the one to kill "Susanna," noting that he had been her king and that everything in the nest of vampires was subject to his rule, except Morbius. Dracula then instructed that while Morbius' woman had gotten in his way and had thus gone first, by this time tomorrow there would be any vampires in the Rockhaven vampire community, just south of Angel Grove, California. 

    Morbius argued that the virus was some form of demonic possession and not the local vampires' fault and that he just needed time, Dracula noted that he was sure Morbius would find the cure soon enough.

(Legion of Monsters II#3 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula apparently ensured Morbius would find the cure. 

(Tomb of Dracula I#48) - Marianne Cutlass de la Triana, her vampire husband having been killed days before by Blade, begged Dracula to destroy her. He did.

(Tomb of Dracula I#49) - Dracula was abducted into the subconscious of Angie Turner, a romantic woman who believed Dracula would be the sensitive man she had read about in fiction; the shock of seeing his true nature released her from her coma, setting Dracula free.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#50) - Anton Lupeski conducted a group mystical ritual to forcefully teleport the Silver Surfer to the vicinity and brainwash him into fighting Dracula. He was successful, and a confused, ill-motivated Surfer fought Dracula for a while. His will weakened, the Surfer failed to stop Dracula at first. After awhile, he renewed his resolve and went after Dracula in his house, but a look into Domini's eyes (while she explained that Dracula did not need to be punished) and another in the direction of the portrait of Jesus were enough to convince him to let Dracula be. When questioned, Domini said that she believed that Surfer saw a glimpse of the future in her eyes.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#51) - Dracula recruited new followers for he and Lupeski's cult, using the allure of the vampire. Dracula was attacked by Deacon Frost's Blade vampiric doppelganger (actually merged with the true Blade), whom he staked, seemingly destroyed him.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#52) - Dracula fought the Golden Angel, believing it to be a servant of Satan. He seemed to kill it by impaling it, but its energy led back to the church where Dracula made his home, and upon entry, he saw that the eyes in the portrait of Jesus were glowing.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#53) - Dracula sent one of his vampires to spy upon Lupeski, believing that Lupeski might be planning to double cross him.

(Ms. Marvel#14) - During a foggy evening in Boston, Dracula descended upon the alter ego of the super-heroine Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers; Dracula presumably increased the obscurity of the fog with his power, as well. Hearing Dracula's nearing footsteps, Danvers ran into an open area, transformed into Ms. Marvel, and flew away, avoiding an encounter with the vampire lord and remaining oblivious to her stalker.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#54) - Dracula's son Janus was born, leading to a one-night truce with the vampire hunters, astonished that Dracula had actually fathered a child.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#55) - Dracula and Domini confirmed their love for another, while Domini investigated Lupeski's loyalties.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#57) - Dracula encountered Gideon Smith, a man whose life was fated to be ended by Dracula. Dracula nearly fed upon him, but the vampire hunters drove him off. Smith was petrified by the encounter.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#59) - Dracula vampirized schoolteacher Emily Arthurs. Anton Lupeski allied himself with the vampire hunters and betrayed Dracula, resulting in the unintentional apparent death of the infant Janus. Dracula slew Lupeski for this.

(Tomb of Dracula I#60) - Anguished over Janus' death, Dracula reflected upon his family, and how he had made enemies of his own kin, from Vlad Tepulus to Lilith.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#61) - Domini successfully attempted a Dark Ritual with the purpose of resurrecting Janus. Worried about the corruption this ritual might bring to the child, Dracula opposed her. The end result was that Janus was indeed resurrected, and aged to maturity, when the Golden Angel entity merged with him.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#62-63) - Dracula fought Janus upon Satan's Hill, as the Devil (Mephisto) attempted to force them to destroy each other. Dracula defied Satan, and was taken to Hell by him for punishment.

(Tomb of Dracula I#64) - For bringing Janus into the world, Satan (Mephisto) punished Dracula by stripping him of his vampirism.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#65) - Rachel van Helsing followed Dracula for a while, uncertain whether she should attempt to kill him or not. She finally decided to let him go and returned to her vampire hunter allies. They failed to reach any solid conclusions, but saw a TV news report that captured the now-mortal Dracula on camera (quite a thrill for Quincy Harker) and realized that Dracula didn't really know how to live as a mortal in modern times. Dracula reached the same conclusion, decided to become vampiric again, and elected his daughter Lilith as the one to bring him back to the vampiric state. While Dracula hijacked a small plane to go after Lilith, Francis Leroy "Cowboy" Brown was contracted by the father of Dracula victim Mary Jo Bentley to avenge his late daughter by killing Dracula.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#66) - Non-vampiric Dracula fought Francis Leroy "Cowboy" Brown.

(Tomb of Dracula I#67) - Dracula found Lilith, and asked her to vampirize him, but she refused. He resolved to find another vampire to perform the task.

(Tomb of Dracula I#68) - Dracula sought out a once-loyal vampire, Marissa to vampirize him, but she was now loyal to Torgo, and refused. Brought down by all sides, Dracula called upon God to save him-- at which point, "Satan" (Mephisto) appeared, pleased to see the depths Dracula had sunk to. Saying that now neither heaven nor Hell would have him, Mephisto restored his vampirism.

(Tomb of Dracula I#69) - Still pursued by his fellow vampires, Dracula fled to a farmhouse where three children awaited the return of their mother. Unable to feed on them due to their crosses, Dracula finally protected them against the vampires which pursued him, wielded a crucifix in his hands (burning his flesh in the process) to drive them out.

(Tomb Of Dracula I#70) - Dracula successfully fought Torgo, the vampire who had inherited his position as Lord of Vampires to regain his reign over all vampires. After destroying Torgo, Dracula returned to Castle Dracula, where Quincy Harker appeared, and fought him. Quincy staked Dracula with a silver spoke, and was about to decapitate him when a bomb he had armed before the fight went off, destroying the castle.

(Tomb of Dracula II#1) - Five years after Dracula had slain her husband, Florence Ebers removed Harker's spoke from Dracula, reviving him. She sought to use the power of the Yazdi Gem to resurrect her husband, Augustus, in Dracula's body. However, Augustus sought the power of the Gem for himself alone and turned against both Florence and Dracula. She shattered the gem, crushing herself and Augustus, and Dracula narrowly escaped. In addition, Dracula vampirized quite a few people after his revival. He bit Betty Gold, but she survived. Sandra Sommers narrowly escaped a bite from him on several occasions.

(Tomb of Dracula II#2) - Dracula was summoned to aid Angela, a psychic, and became caught up in a plot involving the Dimensional Man, the Enclave, and a demon named Asmodeus. The leader of the Enclave, Damien, sent the Dimensional Man after Dracula, who was nearly destroyed by him. Dracula was saved when the Dimensional Man sacrificed himself to stop Asmodeus.

(Tomb of Dracula II#3) - Jacque McDonald, the youthful daughter of Anna Reynolds McDonald, somehow established a connection with Dracula after being injured--a result of receiving a blood transfusion from her mother, who had been bitten by Dracula years before. This connection caused her to drain Dracula's strength from a distance, no matter how much blood he consumed, all the while Jacque became more and more possessed by his evil spirit. Finally, Jacque expelled the essence of Dracula from her, returning both of them to "normal." In the process, Dracula bit/slew Colleen Brown, Connie Stewart, Edna Appleton, Alice Weinburg, and Marianne.

(Tomb of Dracula II#5) - In his partially rebuilt castle, Dracula denounced and slew his Brides. Shortly thereafter, he was confronted by his daughter, Lilith, who tried to kill him. Dracula slew her lover, Viktor Benzel, and then bared his chest to her, challenging him to slay her. He taunted her as she learned that the same spell which granted her immunity to many of the vampiric weaknesses, also made her unable to physically slay him herself.

(Marvel: Shadows+Light#1/2) - Dracula had the corpse of Blade's mother exhumed, brought to Castle Dracula, and revived her in a vampire state. Blade traced her and traveled to the Castle alongside Father Nicholas. Dracula slew Father Nicholas and then confronted Blade-- a scream was heard as the Castle was enveloped in darkness.

(Howard the Duck II#5) - Dracula attacked Howard the Duck in Cleveland, thinking him a short person in a duck suit. As Dracula found eating the blood of non-humans repugnant, he could not stand Howard's blood. Howard, on the other hand, began wandering around in a state in which he mimicked Dracula, attacking other ducks. However, eventually Howard returned to his normal state of mind, preventing Dracula from making good on an attempt to bite Beverly Switzer, who arrived with Harold H. Harold, the latter having renewed his search for Dracula. When Howard the Duck managed to impale Dracula with a piece of a fence, the vampire offered Harold the story of a lifetime if he removed the makeshift stake. Harold foolishly accepted Dracula's offer, only to die under the fangs of Dracula. Dracula, embarrassed by his encounter with Howard the Duck, flew away.

(Defenders I#95 - BTS) - While sleeping within Castle Dracula, the Vampire Lord was possessed by demons of the Six-Fingered Hand.

(Defenders I#95) - Under demonic influence, Dracula journeyed to Greenwich Village, New York, crashed into Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, and battled Strange and the Defenders. Outnumbered and in a demonic daze, Dracula was easily overwhelmed. The heroes consulted the Orb of Agamotto to ascertain the origin of the Undead Lord's erratic behavior.

(Defenders I#95 - BTS - (Orb of Agamotto)) - Hoping to gain leadership over Earth's vampires in Dracula's absence, the Vampire Lord's lackey Gordski made a pact with the demon Puishannt for personal power in exchange for the aid from the legion of vampires on Earth.

After the Son of Satan performed an exorcism upon Dracula, an uneasy alliance was formed to restore Dracula to his rightful position, and he and the Defenders were teleported outside Castle Dracula. Following a fierce struggle, Dracula disappeared per the instructions of Hellstrom, so the Son of Satan could cast a spell that would supernaturally raise the sun which ultimately destroyed the rebelling vampiric force, including Puishannt's host, Gordski. Without a host, Puishannt fled the physical plane.

(Uncanny X-Men#159 (fb) - BTS) - After dropping off her teammate Kitty Pryde with her parents, the X-Man Storm was attacked on her way home and admitted to the emergency room with slash wounds on her throat near the jugular vein.

(Uncanny X-Men#159) - Released against doctor's orders, Storm returned to Misty Knight and Harmony Young's apartment where Dracula's seduction of her begins. Days later, Kitty returned to find the dispirited X Men keeping watch over Storm who they say had lost her will to live. Frightened, Kitty went to Ororo's room and after noticing all the usual signs (aversion to sunlight and the Star of David on her necklace, anemia, strange dreams) suspected that her friend has been attacked by a vampire. That night Ororo opened the window and admitted her new lover...Dracula. Ready to complete Storm's transformation into a vampire, Dracula was interrupted by the sudden arrival of Kitty, demonstrating his immunity to the cross if the wielder did not believe, only to be stopped short from killing the girl by her Star of David. 

    The X-Men tracked Storm and Dracula to Belvedere Castle in Central Park where they confronted the Lord of the Vampires. Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler battled Dracula and his horde or rats and wild dogs while Kitty consecrated Dracula and Storm's coffins with holy water, making them useless. Storm confronted Kitty, intending to transform her as well, but through her love for her adoptive "daughter," she broke Dracula's hold over her. Storm stopped Dracula from slaying the other subdued X-Men by a sneak attack.

    Dracula and Storm battled in the skies above New York, crashing through the windows of the Top of the Park restaurant, fifty stories above Columbus Circle. Gradually, the battle turned against Storm as Dracula brought all his hard-won experience against his mutant consort. His hold over her broken, Dracula could not force her to submit and so took a hostage, but ultimately Storm's courage and integrity convinced him to release his grip on both his hostage and her as his vampiric thrall. He then departed in his humanoid chiropterran form.

(X-Men Annual#6 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula killed and transformed Rachel van Helsing, descendant of his long-time foe Abraham van Helsing, into his vampire slave. After this, he learned van Helsing had hidden the Darkhold in an English castle placed upon the hallowed ground of Pendarrow Hill.

(X-Men Annual#6) - Through the circumstances of their previous meeting, Dracula made the X-Men member Storm his slave once more, as well. The Prince of Darkness enlisted Storm to steal the Darkhold, taking himself and his slaves to Pendarrow Castle to collect it. Unknown to them, Dracula's daughter Lilith had possessed Kitty Pryde and Colossus. Under Lilith's power, they prevented Storm from obtaining the Darkhold.

    Having returned to Dracula, Storm regained her senses just as he was preparing to proselytize her into a vampire, but she was saved by the entrance of the remaining X-Men: Cyclops, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler. The Lilith-led Kitty and Colossus also appeared along with the Darkhold, and a three-way confrontation ensued: Rachel and Dracula vs. the Lilith-dominated duo of Colossus and Sprite vs. the remaining X-Men. After converting Wolverine to his side, Dracula began to dissipate as a result of Kitty reading the Montesi formula aloud. 

    Nightcrawler stopped the possessed Kitty from finishing the incantation, as he knew it would forfeit her soul and consign it to evil. Lilith then physically revealed her involvement to all present by altering Kitty's form into her own. Once recovered, Dracula struck Lilith in anger and began to talk about destroying the X-Men for his own safety. During mid-rant, Dracula was speared by a demoralized Rachel van Helsing through the heart, and the Vampire Lord was reduced to a skeleton shortly thereafter. 

(X-Men Annual#6 (fb) - BTS) - Following the heroes' rapid retreat, Dracula's ocean-side castle tumbled into the sea, Wolverine eased Rachel into her final, desired death, and Lilith's spirit left Kitty's body.

(Thor I#332-333) - Searching for more power, Dracula surveyed his current haunt within the Chicago area, detecting the Asgardian goddess Sif in the process. While Thor was distracted fighting and destroying several vampires, Dracula ensorcelled and bit Sif, gaining the power he sought within her blood. After interrogating one of Dracula's human followers, Thor learned of Dracula and Sif's location. Knowing their position, Thor confronted the newly invigorated Dracula, but the Vampire Lord's new power began to fade, the Asgardian blood being incompatible with his undead form, and he was defeated. Before Thor could permanently destroy him, Dracula was mystically teleported to New York by his human followers. With Dracula vanquished, Sif regained her senses.

(Doctor Strange II#59-60) - Dracula took command of the Darkholders cult, gaining even greater powers from them, including being purged of most of his limitations such as sunlight. He had them raise him an army of vagrants and thugs with which to storm Avengers Mansion, in an attempt to recover the Darkhold. He was opposed by Dr. Strange, Hannibal King, the Scarlet Witch, and Captain Marvel. Dr. Strange managed to teleport the Darkhold away, to Castle Mordo in Transylvania, thus temporarily stalling Dracula's plans.

(Doctor Strange II#61-62) - Dracula followed the trail to Castle Mordo, and easily shrugged off Blade, Hannibal King, Frank Drake and Wong, who were aiding Dr. Strange in protecting the Darkhold. Finally, he faced Dr. Strange himself, but Strange wielded the Darkhold against Dracula, casting the Montesi Formula to destroy all vampires on earth's plane; Dracula was reduced to ash, seemingly destroyed permanently.

(Avengers Annual#16) - A doppelganger of Dracula was created and utilized by the Grandmaster to serve as a member of his Legion of the Unliving, who were was charged with preventing the Avengers from defusing the Grandmaster's "Life-Bombs," each of which could allegedly destroy 1/5th of the universe. The Dracula doppelganger was opposed by Dr. Druid, whom he defeated, and went on to face Mockingbird as her teammate Iron Man attempted to defuse the Life-Bomb. Mockingbird's struggle with Dracula distracted Iron Man long enough for the bomb to explode.

(Vision and the Scarlet Witch II#5) - Dracula was one of several (at least at-the-time) deceased villains who assaulted the Scarlet Witch while she was in the land of the dead.

(Tomb of Dracula III#1-4) - A demon going by the name Asmodeus, having recently awakened from a period of dormancy, manipulated events to resurrect the Lord of the Undead. Confused over the absence of Dracula's remains from his castle (where they were when Asmodeus had last observed the Earth), Asmodeus searched for a year until he found the vampire's soul. He then replaced the soul, and the remains at the site of his previous death, again skewered by Quincy Harker's silver spoke.

    Dracula was revived by Marlene McKenna, the wife of Frank Drake, who was possessed by the spirit of Rachel van Helsing, which was summoned and controlled by Professor Gregor Smirnoff, accessing the power of Asmodeus. Through Smirnoff, Dracula managed to tap the psychic power of 666 students associated with the cult, the Belonging. He was opposed by Frank Drake, Blade, Katinka, and Inspector Judiah Golem. After being wounded by his enemies, Dracula was eventually overcome by the spirits of the dead passing though him, and he exploded. In the course of these adventures, he vampirized a number of young women, including Lila, a former member of the Belonging.
    Each time I read this series, or review it for a profile, I notice something new. In the 3rd and 2nd from last panels from the end of Tomb of Dracula#4, as Katinka makes contact with Judiah Golem, Dracula himself can be clearly seen wrapped in her curtains, and then fading away to mist. Whether this was artistic license, or it just meant that Dracula was not really destroyed at all. Maybe it was only his spirit, which had to search the world for a form to inhabit--as it eventually did in the form created by the temporary merging of Frank Drake and Hannibal King from Nightstalkers#18 and Blade#1-3--see comments

(OHotMU Marvel Knights 2005/Nightstalkers#18 - BTS) - An explosion fused Frank Drake and Hannibal King with Bloodstorm into a new Dracula.

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#1 - BTS) - A monstrous version of Dracula appeared to the psychic Bible John in a vision, in which the vampire had decimated New York City.

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#1) - A journalist, Tara Algren explored the explosion that killed Hannibal King and Frank Drake in Rhode Island. In the remains she found the reborn Dracula.

BTS - Dracula bit Tara, turning her into a vampire

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#2) - Tara's girlfriend, Bethany Flynn was summoned to a bar where Dracula and his new subject awaited. Dracula turned Bethany into a vampire as well. Blade and Bible John arrived and confronted Dracula, only to be defeated by him. Dracula bit Blade.

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#3) - Dracula discovered that Blade was immune to vampire bites. Aaron Thorne and his lackey Angel arrived and teamed up with Blade to attack the one-time Lord of the Undead. Dracula and Throne were defeated when Bible John diverted running water onto them. (Running water being a folkloric bane of vampires)

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#8 - BTS) - Frank Drake and Hannibal King were revealed to be being held within Dracula's body.

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#10 - BTS) - Another vision of the decimated-by-Dracula New York shows a "human" Dracula with eyes with two-colors. (One eye is blue, the other brown.)

(Blade: Vampire Hunter I#10) - Dracula with Tara and Bethany attending him, was keeping an eye on Blade's activities, who just stopped Dracula's lackey Postmortem.

(Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever#1/3) - Dracula somehow obtained a train containing over 200 innocent victims who were restrained, presumably sedated, and had their blood actively drained out (against gravity) into containers by their sides. 

(Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever#1/3) - As Dracula drove the "blood train" through Pennsylvania, the blood was sensed by Morbius and Blade while Dracula and his sins were sensed by Vengeance. The three pursued the blood train on motorcycle, and Vengeance dove through its front window to engage Dracula directly.

(OHotMU Horror 2005/OHotMU Marvel Knights 2005 - BTS) - Blade and his future counterpart Crossbow worked together to free Frank Drake and Hannibal King. The spirit of the real Dracula took possession of the monster and displaced Hannibal King and Frank Drake. All three of them were restored to their original form.

(Beyond#4 (fb)) - Dracula was part of a group, including Coldblood, Darkhawk, Deathlok (Michael Collins), Photon (Monica Rambeau), Sleepwalker, Terror, and Wonder Man summoned to Battleworld by the Stranger (posing as the Beyonder) to fight to the death that he might understand how humanity might be defeated in the future. Ultimately Deathlok brokered a deal with the "Beyonder" that allowed them all to return to Earth while he stayed on Battleworld.

(Spider-Man Team-Up#6/2) - Dracula created Raynee to be his companion. The true nature of her existence was revealed to her by Dr. Strange and Spider-Man, who drove off Dracula.

(Dracula: Lord of the Undead#1-3) - Dracula learned that his original mansion in Southern Transylvania had been ransacked, and his possessions stolen. He eventually tracked them down and recovered them, but was merely taking the bait for a trap. Dracula was infected with a virus, designed by Charles Seward, the great-grandson of his old enemy John Seward, who was under the control of Lilith. This virus made it impossible to consume human blood, but also turned out to be lethal and highly infectious to living people. Dracula ultimately cured himself by drinking Seward's blood, which had been used in developing the virus. In the course of these adventures, Dracula bit/slew Isabel Vortok (a Transylvanian barmaid) and Audra Pennington, who had purchased Dracula's possessions from Lilith's agents and attempted to auction them off.

(Generation X/Dracula 1998 Annual) - Dracula invaded the Xavier School at Massachusetts Academy, seeking to manipulate Chamber into becoming a vampire by promising to restore his face. Chamber and the Gen X'ers drove him off.

(X-Men: Soul Killer, Chapter 5 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula ambushed Carla Spelvin outside a nightclub and drained her life's blood all at once.

(X-Men: Soul Killer, Chapter 5 (fb) - BTS) - Only after Carla's transformation did Dracula speak to her.

(X-Men: Soul Killer: Chapter 13) - Wolverine correctly predicted that Rogue Carla might next attack a hospital, and he spotted her and shared the location with the others; however, just then SAFE agents located and assaulted the various X-Men groups and Dracula. Alongside Nightcrawler, Dracula took out a number of SAFE hovercrafts.

    After Storm captured Rogue Carla, Storm arranged a cease-fire, and Dracula convinced them to accept a truce if he could prove "Rogue" was an impostor. He then grasped and awakened Carla, who futilely struggled against him, and then forced her, despite Belasco's enchantments, to painfully transform back into Carla's form. Dracula then insisted Carla reveal her master's location, but Carla -- having recovered from her surprise and weakness -- defiantly refused, and Belasco's enchantments resisted Dracula's efforts to mentally force her. With Dracula continuing to use his powers of coercion, Jean Grey broke through Carla's shields, but Belasco then caused Rogue Carla to explode. Warned by Jean, Dracula shoved Carla away, and Jean contained the explosion in a telekinetic bubble.

(Bloodstone#1) - Elsa Bloodstone was transported by a magic lamp to a cemetery in Bosnia. There she spotted a vampire tearing through a group of masked men. When she cried out at the vampire's massacring the men, he heard her and turned around. Recognizing her as a Bloodstone, he asked her if she really believed this cowardly trap could finish the likes of Dracula?

(Bloodstone#2) - Dracula revealed that he could tell Elsa is a Bloodstone by her smell, and asked where Ulysses Bloodstone was. He admitted to being saddened when Elsa informed him that her father was dead, feeling that all the strangeness was dying out of the world. Further discussion cleared up his misapprehension that Elsa was behind the men who attacked him, but he still tried to attack her. The Bloodstone she wore around her neck repelled him with a blast of energy, and before he could fully recover from this she began hitting him. He soon obtained the upper hand, however, but the distraction she had caused allowed more of the mysterious masked men to sneak up on him and run him through with a silver stake. Dracula fell to the ground, his flesh melting from his bones. Her work done, Elsa was transported back to England by the Lamp.

(Bloodstone#4 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula was taken to an old missile silo and held prisoner by Nosferatu.

(Bloodstone#4) - Pursuing a group of vampires who violated her home and kidnapped Barnabus, one of her friends, Elsa Bloodstone and her allies (including Adam, the Frankenstein Monster) used the magic Lamp to transport themselves to their enemies' headquarters. There they found Dracula and a number of other vampires being held captive in an old missile silo by Nosferatu.

    Elsa and her allies stormed the room as the captured vampires, sealed in airtight caskets, were one by one exposed to the virus. Adam headed for the silo doors, up the top of the room, planning to open the shutters and flood the room with sunlight. Meanwhile Nosferatu was turned mortal again by drinking Elsa's magically enhanced blood, and being allegedly tens of thousands of years old he swiftly turned to dust. Dracula and Barnabus were freed by Elsa, but faced the rest of the Nosferati horde. Dracula flew upwards, dropping his cloak behind him for Barnabus to use as a shield, and he lent his strength to Adam's; together the two of them managed to let in enough daylight to kill all the Nosferati, as well as the infected vampire captives. Dracula departed immediately after the shutters close once more.

(Tomb of Dracula IV#1 (fb) - BTS) - From within his Transylvanian castle, Dracula prepared himself for the Ritual of Ascendance, which would grant him vast power. Weakened during the incubation period, Dracula surrounded himself by armies of vampires across the world. In addition to the conventional ("Varnaean") vampires, these included the Adze,  Charniputra, and Yiki Onna.
    Learning of this ritual, Noah van Helsing (actually Noah Tremayne, adopted son of August van Helsing) organized a band of vampire hunters to try to destroy Dracula in his weakened state before he could complete the ritual. These hunters included Benjamin Solomon Alomii, Divinity Drake, Enzo Ferrarra, Lucas Telling-Stone, and Michiyo Watanabe.

(Tomb of Dracula IV#1) - From within his castle, Dracula was able to sense as Blade joined Noah's vampire hunters. Blade's partial vampiric status allowed Dracula to monitor the vampire-hunters' every move.

(Tomb of Dracula IV#2) - As Noah's band took a plane heading towards Dracula's castle, the vampire-lord sent two hordes of vampires after them.

(Tomb of Dracula IV#3) - Dracula consumed Kuyuk, lord of the Charniputra, when his brethren failed to stop Noah's band. A group of Yiki Onna captured Noah, bringing him to Dracula, who revealed his knowledge of his true heritage before allowing his vampire servants to feast on him.

(Tomb of Dracula IV#4) - As the vampire hunters continued to be weeded out by the vampire hordes attacking them, Dracula exercised his influence on Divinity Drake, a seeming half-breed vampire, bringing her to his castle. Blade arrived soon after, and Dracula sent Deacon Frost after him, but Blade destroyed Frost. Dracula then immobilized Blade, announced that Divinity would become his bride, and completed the Ritual, assuming immense size and power. 

    Dracula reached forward, claiming Divinity as his bride, but she then turned the tables on him, entering his mind and revealing herself to actually be Aamshed, the Sumerian sorceress who had created the Ritual millennia ago. Having created a supernatural lodestone to attract the souls of those slain by vampires over the last two thousand years, Aamshed unleashed those souls on Dracula, their purity setting him on fire. Whether needed or not, Blade then leapt forward, plunging a stake into Dracula's chest. As the vampire lord was consumed by the souls, the residual energy spread throughout the castle and the surrounding countryside, consuming the vampires there as well.

(Blade III#11 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula utilized the Espil Shade -- a  spell that allows a vampire to reanimate a vampire he had created that had since been destroyed -- to reanimate Jamal Afari in order to locate an unidentified amulet that would grant a vampire immunity to all normal forms of destruction.

(Blade III#10 (fb)) - Dracula met with Jamal Afari in a school's basement, where they searched for an amulet.

(Blade III#1) - Blade defeated the vampiric Spider-Man (in Blade III#10 it was revealed that Afari bit him and not Dracula, like we had originally assumed), noting that his body's radiation would prevent him from being turned into a full vampire. Dracula confronted Blade who swiftly incapacitated him with a wooden stake to the heart. A division of SHIELD serving Lucas Cross stole Dracula's body, and Blade blew up that entire helicarrier. A fragment of the stake containing Dracula's DNA was claimed by Cross to fulfill a prophecy involving "Vlad's remains."

(Blade III#12) - Dracula confronted Blade outside his Transylvanian (Borgo Pass or Snagov? - doesn't seem like any writers know there was more than one castle). Lucas Cross attempted to force Blade to fulfill an unidentified prophecy, threatening to destroy Blade and then Jamal Afari when Blade refused him. As Blade tried to stop Dracula from harming Afari, the vial containing "Vlad's remains" crashed to the ground, fulfilling the prophecy and reanimating all vampires Blade had ever destroyed. Invoking the time he had let Blade live, Dracula then took to the air and departed.

(Tomb of Dracula Presents: Throne of Blood (fb) - BTS) <point in time unrevealed> - On the night before Raizo Kodo was to be sworn in as Legate of Krieger sect, Raizo Kodo told his origins to Dracula. The next day, however, Kodo refused the title and left Krieger.

(Tomb of Dracula Presents: Throne of Blood (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Dracula banished Raizo.

(Legion of Monsters: Morbius#1/2) - As Lilith completed a feeding, Dracula confronted her, having killed her human familiars, Noelle & Tamsin. Dracula proposed a truce with Lilith alleging to wish to consolidate the vampire clans under his rule. In reality, he knew that his proposal would lead her to slaughter the leaders of the vampire clans.
    As Dracula met with the vampire clan leaders, Lilith appeared and slaughtered them all. After she departed, Dracula revealed to a surviving but wounded clan leader that he had orchestrated this for his own benefit, as it left him without rivals and without blame but made Lilith many enemies. He then destroyed the surviving clan leader.

(Dark Reign Files) - Quasimodo researched Dracula for Norman Osborn.

(Ghost Rider VI#33 - BTS) - Deacon and Blackout considered Dracula as a possible agent in their fight against Ghost Rider (Blaze).

(Captain Britain and MI13#12 - BTS) - Seeking sorcerous power to augment his plans, Dracula allied with Lilith (Mother of Demons) and Captain Fate.

(Captain Britain and MI13#12 (fb) - BTS) - The Serpent's Crown, built around the idea of Fate's magical Serpent's Crown vessel and enlarged via Lilith's power, was to serve as the Vampire State's flagship, containing a thousand vampires and the ordinance to subdue the United Kingdom. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#9 (fb) - BTS / Captain Britain and MI13#12 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula established a castle base on Earth's moon, magically protected from solar radiation, the extreme cold, lack of atmosphere, etc. by his sorcerous allies.

(Captain Britain and MI13#9) - A young woman named Amy was willing led to Dracula by his Nosferatu-esque agents; she was both excited and afraid by the concept of being turned into a vampire. As the door was opened, she announced that she was giving herself to him, but he swiftly snapped her neck, killing her before rapidly consuming her blood through the laceration he had caused; dropping her largely exsanguinated corpse to the ground, Dracula instructed his servants to bring him another.

   Awaiting his next meal on the terrace, Dracula met with his master-at-arms and at least two others, telling them that "they" knew about the sword, but that they were ready to move. He instructed his master-at-arms to tell their forces in London to prepare phase one of the assault and to get him Doctor Doom.

(Captain Britain and MI13#10 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula arranged to meet with Doom on the moon, apparently by the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle. Once there, Dracula proposed an non-aggression treaty.

(Captain Britain and MI13#10) - Doom asked what he had to gain from such a policy, and Dracula explained that with Doom having recently regained his kingdom, and that he would appreciate seeing vampires policed, kept away from his borders. Dracula also proposed that they both had things to gain from opposing Islam, and that Dracula's realm would serve as a bulwark against it.

    After mocking Dracula as "an artifact, a mystical viral package" and considering his racism laughable, Doom warned Dracula that his armor contained splinters of "the true cross" and other such defenses (that he had learned while studying under one of Dracula's greatest enemies; presumably Cagliostro), which he had placed in anticipation of an eventual war between himself and Dracula.

    When Doom asked why Dracula had wanted Britain (actually the whole United Kingdom), Dracula noted it to be the home of magic; that the peasantry had a sensible knowledge of their past and an inclination to follow their betters; and that Wisdom had opened the door to magical invasion by a deal with demons to banish Skrulls from Britain during the Secret Invasion.

    While contemptuously using his foot to destroy the footprint of Neal Armstrong, Dracula offered that if Doom and his allies allowed him Britain without interference, he would be Doom's ally and resource...and that Doom would never find out who would win a war between the two of them. 

    Following an apparent treaty, Dracula returned to his castle and raged against Doom and his short-lived nobility, vowing that one day he would have that peasant as his body servant, and that Doom had no idea how easy that would be. Nonetheless, given Doom's compliance, Dracula told his agents to launch attack squads and put all ceremonial to full speed, and all spells to full focus. He instructed control to meet him in the conference room and to bring him another girl. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#10 (fb) - BTS) - Lilith and Captain Fate told Dracula to go forward.

(Captain Britain and MI13#10 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula feasted on another young woman.

(Captain Britain and MI13#10) - Dracula had his vampiric assassins mutated for individual targets, had his launch cannons set to full magical power, and then had the assassins launched at Earth. He then told his agents to prepare a skylaunch and to have Mayhew, one of his disciples in the British government, invite him to Earth. 

    Instructing that they must watch every detail, Dracula considered that von Doom had put him in the mood for some torment.

(Captain Britain and MI13#10 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula's weaponized/custom-mutated vampires struck a car carrying Captain Britain, Pete Wisdom, and their companions, Liz and Tarra; and a plane carrying the Black Knight (Dane Whitman) and Excalibur (Faiza Hussain).

 (Captain Britain and MI13#10) - Mimicking the voice of Faiza Hussain, Dracula duped her father, Yusuf Hussain, into granting him access to his home. Grabbing Yusuf by the throat and addressing him as "the old enemy" and Moslem, Dracula informed him that he was there to send a message to MI13...if any of them survived the night. Dracula informed Yusuf that this was going to take a while and be an absolute pleasure.

(Captain Britain and MI13#11 (fb) - BTS) - Farida Hussain (Faiza's mother), hit the security button, and Motormouth and Killpower were teleported into the Hussain home. Motormouth escaped with Faiza, although both were seriously injured, but both Killpower and Yusuf were taken by Dracula and his forces. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#11 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula left a warming for Blade written on a mirror that he declared -- on behalf of his landless nation -- war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He further instructed Blade to tell any of his allies that were left that they would be coming, and he finally noted that Blade would be the last.

(Captain Britain and MI13#11 - BTS) - Captain Britain, Wisdom, Black Knight, and Excalibur survived the vampire assaults and destroyed their attackers.

(Captain Britain and MI13#12 (fb) - BTS) - Wishing Blade to lead him to the location of Quincy Harker's skull, which projected a mystical field around Britain that required every vampire wishing entry to be individually invited (much like how vampires could only enter a residence when invited), Dracula instructed his agent Mayhew to mention the "the head of" upon being discovered.

(Captain Britain and MI13#11 - BTS) - Having gathered United Kingdom's intelligence operatives and prepared them for the coming conflict, Wisdom exposed Mayhew as an agent of Dracula, and as Mayhew tried to note Dracula's plans for that evening "It's the head of...", Mayhew exploded (Wisdom speculated this to be from a remotely activated capsule of holy water).

    Wisdom then locked down the MI13, resolving not to keep the other groups in the loop until they had cleaned their houses.

(Captain Britain and MI13#11) - After Spitfire (Jacqueline Falsworth) had refused to join the Vampire State, her son, Kenneth Crichton, led her to Dracula, who seemingly forced her to her knees and put her under his control.

(Captain Britain and MI13#15 (fb) - BTS) - Via one of O's devices, Wisdom -- having correctly determined that Dracula wished to dupe him and his allies into revealing the location of Quincy Harker's skull, which contained a spell that prevented any vampire from entering the United Kingdom without being individually invited -- contacted the skull's owner, British witch Diana Hetherington, and had her paint mystic symbols on a spare skull she had to use as a decoy of Quincy Harker's skull. She hid the true skull of Quincy Harker.

(Captain Britain and MI13#12 - BTS / Captain Britain and MI13#15 (fb) - BTS) - Having traveled to Dracula's moon base alongside Kenneth, Jacqueline -- feigning being unable to resist Dracula's will -- drank the blood of a human captive, painfully accepting this as a justifiable loss due to the great numbers who would perish if she could not continue to dupe Dracula in order to play her intended role in foiling his plan. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#12) - Alongside his allies Captain Fate and Lilith, Dracula greeted Kenneth and Jacqueline, noting his pleasure at her having been blooded. Dracula instructed Lilith to be civil to Jacqueline, after which Fate showed her the Serpent's Crown. When Jacqueline asked why Dracula thought that she would contribute anything behind anything she was directly forced to do, Dracula advised her that she would change with her desire for blood. Nonetheless, he then sent her away, as she had no part to play in the current phase of the plan, which was proceeding as they spoke. 

    After the Black Knight, Blade, Captain Britain, Excalibur, and Wisdom visited Diana Hetherington, Dracula sent a number of vampires to Diana's home. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#13 (fb) - BTS) - Per Diana's speculation, the vampires had stood outside her home and heard her welcome in Wisdom and his allies, and they used that as their own welcome.

(Captain Britain and MI13#12 - BTS / Captain Britain and MI13#15 (fb) - BTS) -  With magic assistance from Lilith and Fate, Dracula traveled to Diana's home as well, after which Dracula destroyed what seemed to be Harker's skull and proclaimed victory.

(Captain Britain and MI13#13 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula vanished back to the moon after the skull's destruction. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#15 (fb) - BTS) - Wisdom's subsequent plots were largely to prevent Dracula from discovering that the true skull of Quincy Harker (and the spell it contained) were still intact. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#13) - Dracula instructed Lilith and Fate that the embarkation phase was to begin immediately. After Fate confirmed that the journey time was two days, Dracula announced that they would launch as soon as embarkation was complete, and they would take the new converts in their birthing pods as they would wake as vampires in time for the attack. Acknowledging that while the enemy did not know where they were, he knew they would be coming, and he advised they not give Wisdom time to think. 

    After noting that their sheer numbers would be a match for their foes and their magic and weapons would give them overwhelming superiority, Dracula put Fate in charge of the launch as he went to his cabin, observing their enemies and finessing their tactics for the final phase.

    As the Serpent's Crown departed the moon, Wisdom and his allies received an alert from the near space detection system, and Dracula complimented Fate on his work. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 (fb) - BTS) - In exchange for Wisdom's promise of freedom, the demon Plokta pulled Dracula into a pocket realm of fantasy, his heart's desire (see comments). While he otherwise remained in his cabin for 48 hours, Dracula saw: 

(Captain Britain and MI13#13 (fb) - BTS) - Augmented by Dracula's agents machinery, Lilith generated a magical force field, blocking entry to Britain (presumably the United Kingdom) from outside. Dracula predicted that the Scarlet Witch was unwilling to pierce the barrier.

    Dracula focused his will on unifying the army and coordinating the forward scouts.

(Captain Britain and MI13#13) - Dracula was pleased with the shield's efficacy, although he remained uncertain why the Scarlet Witch was unwilling to pierce the barrier. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#13 - BTS) - As Dracula predicted, Jacqueline felt the effects of Dracula's will and seemingly aligned with the vampiric cause. As her part in the plan, she contacted her MI13 allies and arranged a meeting. Although they knew it to be a trap, they considered the meeting their only chance to gain more intelligence before the vampires' arrival on Earth.

    In the subsequent confrontation, Excalibur apparently had her throat torn open by Spitfire, Captain Britain was banished outside the barrier, and Wisdom and the Black Knight were seemingly slain, leaving Blade alone.

(Captain Britain and MI13#13 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula seemingly entered Parliament and supped from all present.

(Captain Britain and MI13#13) - In Parliament, the cloaked Messenger told Dracula that he had won.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - Considering the victory to have surprisingly easy, Dracula realized it was a trick, and he used his mystic sword to cleave open the false reality and return to the Serpent's Crown.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - Dracula rushed to Fate and Lilith and learned he had been in his cabin for two days following his orders not to be disturbed. As Plokta began to lose touch with Dracula due to the distance from Plokta's room, Dracula congratulated Wisdom and warned him that his death would be swift. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 - BTS) - Wisdom ordered a subordinate to get him John Colton on the line...

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 - BTS) - Lilith prepared a portal/field to apparently protect the vampires arriving on Earth from the sun as they landed. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - Dracula was frustrated to find that he could not fully control Spitfire, although she did reveal information about Plokta and Killpower. After enemy contact was announced, Dracula was pleased that his foes were showing some spirit. On the deck, Dracula instructed that he be shown whatever was approaching at escape velocity although he instructed that it only get through to the deck: On screen, Captain Britain said a code phrase, and Spitfire punched in commands in the ship's computers that transported the Black Knight and Excalibur there and then attacked Dracula, telling him he had been had.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 - BTS) - With Dracula distracted, Yusuf Hussain found himself free to move and speak, and Killpower revealed that -- as he had been created in part through certain spells -- most magic didn't work on him, and he had been free the whole time. As Killpower transported back to Earth, Yusuf elected to stay and do his part there. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 - BTS) - Captain Britain engaged but apparently could not stop Lilith, but the Black Knight disarmed Captain Fate, causing him to disintegrate...

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - As Captain Britain ordered a tactical retreat, Spitfire warned Dracula that this wasn't over.

    Without Fate, the ship began to break apart, but Lilith used a spell to hold it together. Dracula considered the quality of their attackers' plan, but that Lilith's survival had thwarted it, and now that the sun had set over Britain, this had been their last effort...although he wondered where was Blade...

    Dracula told Kenneth Crichton to be proud of his mother's strength, and he wondered how Yusuf Hussain could resist his will.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14 - BTS) - Doom transported Meggan Puceanu aboard the Serpent's Crown.

(Captain Britain and MI13#14) - As Dracula wondered if his will was weakening while Yusuf continued to resist him, he ordered the invasion phase to being immediately: The ship and all free-flying vampires were to dive for the landing site at maximum speed. Ken Crichton noted that he could sense a weakening ot the glorious unification, after which he informed Dracula that there was a message: Doom told Dracula that he had delivered a hostage in their brig to be used against Captain Britain, and that by strict code of honor, he believed Dracula owed him a favor. 

    After having feasted again, Dracula silenced the reassuring Crichton, noting that the gift of Doom, who had studied under Cagliostro and who had dissected vampires in Latveria, was a sword without a hilt. Checking the brig, they found Meggan.

(Captain Britain and MI13#15) - After Crichton noted that Meggan was broadcasting rebellion to the vampires aboard the Serpent's Crown, Captain Britain entered the room and assaulted Dracula. Lilith then assaulted Captain Britain, who weakened her by stating her true name, and after which Captain Britain explained that the lights Dracula saw were the first vampires reaching orbital velocity and striking and being incinerated by Harker's mystic barrier; Captain Britain then welcomed Yusuf Hussain home, protecting him from the spell. 

    Dracula had Lilith transport himself and the army back to prepared positions on the moon; however, MI13 accessed Lilith's portal, and Captain Britain, Dark Angel, Death's Head, Digitek, Spitfire, Tangerine, and the Special Air Services (including John Colton) arrived and joined the fight. Knowing that any vampires still with Dracula were allied under their own will, the MI13 forces worked to destroy all of them. 

    As MI13's forces destroyed Dracula's own coffin and soil, Dracula realized the fight was lost but considered throwing himself into the battle and to be destroyed for the cause. However, Dracula instead swiftly resolved that he must survive for his people. When the Black Knight and Excalibur blocked his approach to his escape craft, Dracula incapacitated the Black Knight in a sword fight, but Excalibur destroyed Dracula with the sword, Excalibur. 

(Captain Britain and MI13#15 - BTS) - Blade destroyed Kenneth Crichton, Captain Britain banished Lilith back to Hell, and the rest of the vampires on the moon were destroyed. Having proven resistant to Dracula's influence, Yusuf Hussain was allowed to return to his family by Captain Britain. 

(Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural#5) - When Nightmare took over most of Earth, Dracula -- apparently to some degree under Nightmare's influence -- assaulted Doom, who asked him if he was the lord of the undead or a weak-minded pawn. Doom further told Dracula to overcome the unreal wretch's allure, but Dracula noted that he did not want to turn away from this feast. Regardless, Doctor Voodoo skewered Dracula through the chest, presumably destroying him, at least for awhile. 

(Death of Dracula#1) - As Lord of Vampires, Dracula attended a gathering of the world's vampires, which was only held once a century on a deserted Greek island. From all corners of the world the different vampire sects arrived to deal with the matters at hand; while the sects' entourages remained on the surface, the sects leaders met underground. Feeling the human population had exploded over the last century the Anchorite and Atlantean sects asked for leadership. Curious to hear more, Dracula asked what they had in mind in the way of leadership, Dracula's son Xarus took the opportunity to do so. Xarus voiced that the vampire community needed to come out of the shadow while Dracula was convinced the vampires had their own world. 

    All of a sudden, Xarus drove a stake through Dracula's heart, after which the sect leaders of the Nosferatu, Atlanteans and Charniputra joined in stabbing Dracula. Dracula's other son Janus and the sect leaders loyal to him could do nothing but watch in shock as Xarus took a sword and beheaded his father. Xarus than explained he would be the one to lead the vampire community into a new era and asked the clanheads to join him. The Nosferatu, Atlanteans, Charniputra, Moksha and Siren were eager to join, but the two biggest clans, those of the Krieger and the Claw (the Claw sect had secretly already joined Xarus but were keeping this secret) denied Xarus' leadership and left. Xarus ordered the Charniputra sect leader to place Dracula's body in a crypt and the Atlantean sect leader to hide his head away. After dealing with the sects who didn't want his leadership, Xarus was proclaimed the new Lord of Vampires.

(X-Men III#2 - BTS) - In an effort to stop Xarus and save their friend Jubilee, the X-Men decided they would resurrect Dracula.

(Namor the First Mutant#1 (fb) - BTS) - The Atlantean Sect or otherwise called the Aqueos hid Dracula's head in the Vault of Law. The Vault of Law was an ornate storage chest used by ancient kings to safeguard precious items. It would be mystically sealed by the prime logomancer and could only be opened by a true ruler of Atlantis.

(Namor the First Mutant#1 - BTS) - Realizing the enormity of the army against them, Namor volunteered to travel to the deepest ocean depths to retrieve the head of Dracula.

(Namor the First Mutant#1) - With the help of the Tridents Husam, Husni and Abira he successfully managed to find the Vault of Law in the Black Smokers' Trench. After opening the chest and finding Dracula's severed head they came under attack by the Aqueos. Namor deemed it unwise to fight them as it wasn't a battle but about survival, and so he and the Tridents escaped.

(Storm & Gambit: Curse of the Mutants#1) - With the help of Dracula's son Janus, the X-Men Storm and Gambit successfully managed to find Dracula's body on an island in the Mediterranean sea, which they recovered after a huge fight against vampires from several sects (Charniputra, Nosferatu, Siren and Claw sects).

(X-Men III#3) - Namor returned to Utopia with the head of Dracula. With his body already in their possession necessary precautions were taken so the former Lord of Vampires could not break free. Dracula's body was contained in a special room surrounded by all sorts of stakes, when the X-Men's leader Cyclops gave the order his head was placed back on his body and the stake pulled out of his heart. Dracula immediately regained consciousness and saw several X-Men and Blade, and from behind the glass as Cyclops bade him a good morning. Galant as ever, Dracula complimented Storm, apologizing he couldn't bow since circumstance prevented him. But when Cyclops wanted to talk business Dracula asked to be released first; Summers agreed, and Dracula was released from his bounds. Summers showed Dracula they counted at least twelve-thousand vampires within a five-mile radius, unclear what the X-Men's leader exactly wanted him to do, Summers replied he just wanted him to follow his heart. Shocked by the crude remark, Dracula chose to show himself out.

(X-Men III#5) - After Xarus' forces had been defeated by Cyclops and the X-Men, Dracula arrived at Xarus' secret headquarters. Dracula walked around the war room triumphantly taking delight in the shocked faces, he then explained to show understanding and amnesty to the sects that had been led astray and forgave them. But when he turned to Xarus, he made it clear he would not be forgiven.

(X-Men III#6) - Surprised his father had been resurrected, Xarus ordered his men to destroy him at once, but the sight of the one true Lord of Vampires scared all of the sect leaders. Just then the X-Men joined by Blade came crashing in, and Xarus took the opportunity to grab a sword and attack his father. The two fought, but Dracula clearly had the upper hand and after throwing Xarus on the floor he grabbed hold of Xarus' head and tore it right off his body. Xarus' prodigy Jubilee tried to attack Dracula, but was taken out with a single blow to her face. With the severed head of his son still in his hands, he ordered others to alert the sects that Dracula had returned. 

    Next, Dracula turned his attention to the X-Men and Blade who had witnessed his actions. Cyclops made his point very clear, they'd only come to take care of Xarus; however, Blade had other plans and attacked Dracula. But before Blade could lay but a finger on Dracula, he was hit in the back by Cyclops' optic blast. Cyclops remembered he had made an agreement with Dracula, although an unspoken one that he intended to keep but Dracula seemed to have other plans. While looking at the severed head of Xarus he credited his son for forming all of the bickering tribes into one vampire nation he wondered what it could become with competent leadership. Cyclops decided to play his ace and reveal they had kept Dracula's dismembered body for seventeen hours in which his X-Club researched him thus creating a contingency plan. Dracula stared Cyclops in the face, calling this a bluff, but since he liked Cyclops' style, he chose to leave and put his house in order.

(Tomb of Dracula Presents: Throne of Blood) - Dracula met with an envoy of the Klaw sect, who requested permission to execute a deserter: Raizo Kodo. When the envoy asked about Kodo, Dracula shared his origins, noting that the tale might save the envoy's life. Dracula subsequently noted how Kodo had similarly joined and then left the Krieger sect, after which he granted the envoy permission, although he highly doubted Klaw sect would be successful.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1 (fb) - BTS) - After Thor had knocked the Hulk (possessed by / existing as Nul: Breaker of Worlds after picking up one of Cul's hammers) into the stratosphere, he landed in Romania, near the Carpathian mountains. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula presumably sent a number of vampires, including a Krieger garrison, to oppose Hulk/Nul, but the Hulk slaughtered the Krieger garrison at Northgate and crushed everything else in his path since landing. A pair of vampires sent to offer the Hulk unimpeded passage through their land resulted in the Hulk decapitating the Nosferati-like vampire and plowing through other attacking vampire forced who subsequently engaged him. Captain Luna reported the massacre to Dracula. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1) - Addressing Legate and a number of other vampires, Dracula considered that although they had lost good men, they had given their lives confirming vital information. At Dracula's instruction, Legate reported that he could raise an army of 45,000 in 24 hours, or 8000 in 2 hours, all seasoned Krieger troops. Dracula then had Janus report on the Hulk, and he shared his true identity, his marriage, and information on how he had become even more dangerous upon wielding his current hammer. Although Legate reported on the number of hammer-wielders, neither he nor Janus knew who had armed/manipulated/unleashed them. 

    Dracula nonetheless vowed that they would find a way to stop him, reviewing all data until finding an Achilles heel. Karris then reported the launch of a second flight of Charniputra against the Hulk, and Luna and supervised the filming of the Hulk's slaughter of these attackers. 

    The long-banished vampire Raizo Kodo then appeared alongside his Forgiven, and although Janus urged the sect to prepare for a fight, Dracula told them to stand down as, if Raizo and the Forgiven had come to fight, Dracula's agents would already be bleeding. After Kodo clarified that they were indeed there to fight but at his side against the Hulk, Dracula nonetheless considered the lack of respect in their stealthy entrance and confrontation required that they be spend some time in the dungeon to impress his rule upon them. Although Kodo advised that this was no time for old feuds and that they could only achieve victory if they all pooled their strength, Dracula thanked him for his appraisal of the situation and told Kodo that he would come find him in his cell if he wished any more of his advice. Appreciating that this was the only way to begin negotiations and choosing to exercise patience, Kodo and the Forgiven accepted this imprisonment. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1 (fb) - BTS / Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#2 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula arranged to have a number of monsters dropped on the Hulk via airplane so they could observe him 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#1) - Although Janus argued that Kodo may be right, Dracula told him this was none of his concern, and he advised Janus of his recent plan, and the dropped monsters attacked the Hulk.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#2) - Luna sent video of the Hulk engaging the monster attack force, and Janus commented to Dracula that the Hulk did not seem to have any obvious weakness. After reporting that there was still 22 minutes until their forces would be gathered, Janus again advised his father to enlist Raizo Kodo's aid.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#2 - BTS) - Dracula reluctantly accepted this advice and had Kodo and the Forgiven brought to him.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#2) - Dracula instructed his agents to follow Kodo's instruction to bring him every scrap of data, every image, and every readout immediately. After Dracula noted that the various hammers (like the Hulk's) were not activated until encountering each wielder, Kodo considered that this meant that each hammer was meant specifically for each wielder. Although they were uncertain how to use that information, Kodo volunteered to send his Forgiven to stall the Hulk, at least until Legate gathered his forces. 

    As the Forgiven engaged the Hulk, Kodo snapped one of Legate's fingers for distracting him, and Dracula silenced Lestate's complaints, suggesting he let the man concentrate. As the Forgiven fell before the Hulk, Dracula agreed with Janus that they should attack as soon as possible with whatever forces they could muster. As Lestate insisted that they must wait to gather their full force, Dracula paused to hear Kodo's input, but Kodo told them that no vampire force could stop the Hulk. Dracula then gave Legate one hour to arm every available vampire who could hold a weapon, and then the Vampire Nation would go to war.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#3) - Dracula had one of his vampire agents procure Adamantium (presumably secondary Adamantium, since it was not completely indestructible) in preparation for their conflict. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#3) - Dracula had Legate warn the people of St. Sebastian that the Hulk was coming, intending to cause a panic that would draw the fear-drawn Hulk/Nul into the walled city. As he prepared to send his forces in, Dracula noted that many of them would not survive but that this day they would save the world. He then had Janus gather their swords and join him in preparation of facing the Hulk. 

    At St. Sebastian's castle, Dracula confronted and taunted the Hulk before having him bound in secondary Adamantium chains, with gravity generators that made him a hundred times heavier than he would be on Jupiter. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#3 / Fear Itself#7) - However, the Nul-possessed Hulk tore free, and Dracula was soon at his mercy, although he refused to cower. 

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#3) - A reprieve came when Inka used a Krieger sect mesmerization trick to make the Hulk believe she was the Red She-Hulk (Betty Banner), allowing the Hulk to overcome his hammer's influence long enough to crush it and and cast off the possession. After the Hulk reverted to Banner, Dracula attempted to slay him with his sword, but Banner swiftly turned back into the Hulk. As the vampires' actions had saved millions from him, the Hulk spared them from retaliation and departed. 

    Dracula then informed Raizo/Kodo and the Forgiven that they had only allied for the the threat of the Hulk and that they remained banished: If they entered his domain again, they would all be decapitated. Dracula's forces transported Nul's hammer back to his castle.

(Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula#3) - Kodo and the Forgiven resolved to steal back the hammer that night.

(Fear Itself#7: Epilogue 4 - BTS) - Dracula apparently watched as Nul, the being who had previously possessed the Hulk, took form in St. Sebastian. Vampire forces were sent to confront Nul, but they were easily destroyed.

(Legion of Monsters II#3) - Elsa Bloodstone assaulted Castle Dracula, slaughtering numerous vampires before confronting Dracula. Noting how he enjoyed watching a talented woman work, Dracula told her he'd hoped she'd come to tussle. When she asked him about a conflict involving Michael Morbius and the Rockhaven Vampire Community in Angel Grove, California, Dracula shared how he and why he had destroyed Braxus. 

    When Morbius arrived and tried to get Else to step away from Dracula, Dracula grabbed Morbius by the throat and demonstrated his dominance before revealing Braxus' true motivations, noting that she would have slit Morbius' throat and fed him to her puppets. Dracula then dropped Morbius and told him "You're welcome" before advising Morbius and Elsa to see their way out.

(Howling Commandos of SHIELD#2) - Under Doctor Kraye's direction at Area 13 (S.T.A.K.E. headquarters), agents drained blood from Dracula, hoping to learn new secrets.

(Old Man Logan II#14 (fb) - BTS) - Jubilee and Vampire by Night (Nina Price) both disappeared -- and fell under Dracula's control -- after last being seen in Romania, leading Wolverine and the Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate.

    Dracula notably intended Wolverine to try to rescue Jubilee so that he might vampirize him. Under Dracula's control, she complied with this plan.

(Old Man Logan II#14) - Wolverine (actually Old Man Logan of Earth-29123) directed the Howling Commandos to assault Dracula's forces, while he covertly entered the castle. Logan-29123 located Jubilee, at which point Dracula bit him in the neck.

(Old Man Logan II#15) - As Dracula revealed his plan to spread across and control the world, Logan's healing factor resisted the vampiric infection (although his older body struggled with this), and he further encouraged Jubilee to resist Dracula. 

    After the Howling Commandos were captured, their giant teammate Orrgo came to the rescue, ripping open the top of Dracula's castle, and Man-Thing freed Logan and the Commandos. Dracula threatened to destroy Jubilee to keep Logan back, but Dracula's fear limited his ability to control her, and she threw Dracula onto Logan's claws. 

    When Orrgo picked Dracula up by his hair, Logan decapitated Dracula, after which he had Cerebra throw Dracula's head into the sun in an effort to prevent his resurrection.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#7 (fb) - BTS) <At some point> - Dracula allegedly sliced off Medusa's head clean off her shoulders (which would mean that it was back on her shoulders after Wolverine had used it against the Kraken).

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#1 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula plotted to marry Shiklah to unite the monster world and end a feud that had simmered for centuries. As certain monsters and vampires wished to prevent this marriage, Dracula resolved to enlist Deadpool to recover Shiklah's coffin. After traveling to an English mansion, Dracula sent the vampire Raoul to give Deadpool an invitation to meet with him. 

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#1 - BTS) - Raoul delivered the invitation to Deadpool in one of his pouches while he was recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Not seeing the invitation, Deadpool nonetheless followed Raoul back to Dracula's mansion where he impaled Raoul with an umbrella.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#1) - Dracula confronted Deadpool and hired him to recover Shiklah.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#1 - BTS) - Dracula sent Deadpool to a cavern in the Arabian peninsula where he destroyed a quartet of teleporters and escaped with Shiklah's coffin.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#2 - BTS) - After Shiklah revived, she and Deadpool were confronted by Blade, who wished to prevent the marriage.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#2) - Arriving in the Monster Metropolis, Dracula was informed by his agent Reginald that his parlor was occupied. There he encountered Shiklah's brothers, Amjad and Baqir, whom he had believed to be dead. Dracula then appreciated that the land and bannermen of their people belonged to the brothers and not to Shiklah.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#3) - After finding a group of monsters partying in his parlor, Dracula instructed Reginald to bring him some stakes. 

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#4 - BTS) - After Deadpool and Shiklah had been captured and later escaped from AIM, Dracula had a control collar -- an "old necromantic antiquity" -- placed on the Werewolf, who was sent to kill Deadpool and bring Shiklah back to Dracula. Deadpool eventually  cut the collar off of the Werewolf, who revealed that Dracula had sent him and that he had heard Shiklah's brothers were alive. 

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#4) - Reviving from his coffin, Dracula was annoyed to find Amjad and Baqir fighting about things that had happened centuries ago. Insisting he would not allow them to stand in the way of his taking control of Monster Metropolis, Dracula had Reginald activate the mind control device for his guests, the new Frightful Four (Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, the Brood mercenary Xzax, Marcus the Centaur warrior), whom he sent to kill Deadpool and bring Shiklah back to him.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#5 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula decapitated Amjad and Baqir and impaled their heads on spikes spears in his lair in Monster Metropolis.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#5) - Dracula mockingly spoke to Amjad and Baqir's heads, noting how much more he liked them now and that they would be a happy family. Having traveled to Dracula's lair via a mirror/portal, Shiklah's pet, Bug, witnessed this.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#5 - BTS) - Bug reported Amjad and Baqir's fates to Shiklah, who resolved to confront Dracula and demand an explanation.

    When Deadpool and Shiklah arrived back in Manhattan, a group of vampires -- under Dracula's direction -- wearing full body cartoonish monster and/or animal costumes attacked them. They escaped the vampire horde by fleeing into a church.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#5 (fb) - BTS) - Deadpool and Shiklah had the church's priest marry them.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#5 - BTS) - Dracula's Frightful Four traveled to the church, but Deadpool defeated them while Shiklah traveled to the Monster Metropolis. After Dracula's agent (Reginald) told the population that Shiklah's brothers had attacked Dracula, Shiklah ambushed and drained the life from that agent. Shiklah subsequently freed a number of imprisoned monsters/friends of hers, and she vowed that Dracula must be destroyed. 

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#6) - Fighting her way into Dracula's lair, Shiklah delivered to Dracula a pair of heads she had removed from his gargoyle servants. After Dracula mockingly noted that the deaths of her brothers had made her a monarch, which was a great wedding gift, Shiklah revealed that she had married Deadpool. More incensed at the damage to his reputation for being cuckolded by an "escaped mental patient" than losing the Monster Metropolis kingdom, Dracula vowed to destroy Shiklah. After Shiklah transformed into her monstrous form, Dracula psionically/hypnotically forced her to revert back to her human form, after which he revealed the head of Medusa, whose gaze turned Shiklah to stone.  

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#6 - BTS) - When Blade proposed that they assault whoever won the monsters vs. vampires battle, Deadpool revealed that he had married Shiklah and now had loyalty to her and her people.  

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#6) - Dracula put the cloth back over Medusa's head and wondered if the petrified Shiklah could still see. Medusa complained that she couldn't see either, under the cloth.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#6) - Deadpool confronted Dracula, who refused his offer to return Shiklah and to allow them to depart in peace, instead swiftly outmaneuvering the mercenary and biting him. However, Deadpool's cancerous blood made Dracula feel weak; instead of drinking more, Dracula then ripped off Deadpool's right hand. Intending to take him apart piece, Dracula warned that Deadpool would soon beg for death.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#7) - When Dracula prepared to chop off Shiklah's petrified arm so it could keep Deadpool's right hand company, Deadpool grabbed him by the cape and knocked him off balance. In the ensuing fight, Dracula stabbed Deadpool through the mid-section (about sternum-level) and then tore off part of his mouth in an effort to silence him. When Dracula turned to Shiklah again, however, Deadpool attacked anew, stabbing Dracula in the chest with his own arm (the radius and ulna extended far beyond the soft tissue and served as sharp weapons). Even after Dracula pulled Deadpool's arm out of his chest, Deadpool's poisoned blood continued to weaken Deadpool. Vowing to kill Deadpool when next they met, Dracula turned into a bat and flew away.

(Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet#7) - Deadpool convinced Medusa to reverse Shiklah's petrifaction and to petrify Dracula's vampire forces, ending the monster-vampire battle. In return, Deadpool got Medusa a new body, but she was less than pleased that it was the body of the Monster of Frankenstein.

(Spider-Man and Deadpool#16 (fb) - BTS) - After his latest defeat, Dracula was emotionally devastated, and he contemplated walking into the dawn and becoming ash on the breeze. However, he then discovered gaming technology in the home of one of his slaves, and he again found meaning in his existence. 

    Seeking to use his own identity -- which was originally not a character in his favorite game -- as his avatar, Dracula "convinced" the game designers to include him as a locked character that only he could access.

    Enslaving Latvian resident Natalya, Dracula took up residence in her basement, from which he operated his gaming console. They set up a bathroom trapdoor so that when Dracula got hungry, Natalya would invite someone into her home and feed them cottage cheese; soon the people would need to use the toilet, which would cause them to tumble down into Dracula's room, so he could feast on them. This saved him time on hunting so that he could fully devote himself to his gaming, through which Dracula "conquered" thousands.

(Spider-Man and Deadpool#16 - BTS) - Seeking Dracula's aid is leading a vampire army against Shiklah and her monster army, Deadpool traveled with Spider-Man and Camper "Cami" van Helsing to Latvia (locating Dracula's residence via a divining/dowsing rod). After Natalya invited them in, Dracula overheard them state their goals, and Deadpool, Spider-Man, and Cami sequentially went down the trapdoor.

(Spider-Man and Deadpool#16) - After discussing his gaming experiences and identifying Cami as a van Helsing, Dracula refused to aid them against Shiklah, at which point Cami began taunting him as a coward. When Dracula grabbed her by the neck and threatened to slay her, Spider-Man and Deadpool arranged instead for Dracula to play Cami -- who was an avid gamer -- in the game: In Cami won, Dracula would return with them to New York and stop Shiklah, while if Dracula won -- at least per Deadpool's proposal -- he could feast on Cami. Although the confident Dracula informed Cami he would store her blood in an oaken cask to let it age (as there was no finer wine than the blood of a van Helsing), Cami defeated Dracula. After Dracula agreed to honor the deal, Spider-Man added on the requirement to release Natalya from his control. 

(Deadpool and the Mercs for Money II#10) - Dracula remained in his coffin in the helicopter with Cami, Deadpool, and Spider-Man when flew to Manhattan. After sun set, Deadpool summoned Dracula, who released the vampires in the city from Shiklah's control and had them attack her monsters. When Shiklah confronted them, Dracula proposed to her again, asking her to rule all of monster-kingdom at his side and to enslave humanity. She said "Yes. That sounds wonderful."

(Deadpool VI#29) - With Mephisto conducting the ceremony and Spider-Man and Deadpool bound, Dracula married Shiklah. However, the ghost of Benjamin Franklin convinced the monsters and vampires to reject their monarchs, which they did when Dracula and Shiklah arrived in Monster Metropolis. After Dracula briefly battle Spider-Man and various monsters, Shiklah and Dracula agreed to leave their people to rule themselves, and they departed together. 

(Avengers VII#6 - BTS) - As the Avengers battled the Celestial Final Host and the Final Host began gaining the upper hand, Dracula felt fear deep in the tombs of Castle Dracul.

(Avengers VII#10 - BTS) - Acting as an agent of Wakanda, the Wasp ventured to Castle Dracul to locate the vampire hunter Blade, and she found the Castle well protected by Dracula's vampiric servants. Avoiding the guards and finding Blade, the Wasp flew into his cell in Dracula's dungeons and invited him to join the Avengers.

(Avengers VII#12 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula sent his forces after the scientifically-created vampire Morbius in an attempt to ally with Morbius. The Black Panther sent the Wasp to protect Morbius.

(Avengers VII#12 - BTS) - The Wasp and Morbius flew an Avengers Quinjet into space in an attempt to shake off a group of Dracula's pursuing vampire servants. Contacting Avengers Mountain, the Wasp reached the Wakanda agent Broo, who adjusted the Quinjet's course into a Stark satellite. When Broo expressed hope that the vampires survived since he abhorred violence, the Wasp remarked that Dracula's disciples did not share Broo's pacifist ways. Wasp and Morbius were eventually able to shake Dracula's servants with the help of fellow Wakanda agent John Jameson, and when the Black Panther later reported the events to Asgardian All-Father Odin, Odin asked if Morbius had revealed the reasons why Dracula was pursuing him. The Black Panther explained that Morbius claimed he had no idea what Dracula would want with him, as he had always been something of a pariah among the truly undead community. Odin then began rambling about how vampires couldn't be trusted, but the Black Panther got to the point and asked Odin if he had learned any recent news about the vampire situation, prompting Odin to reveal that his ravens Hugin and Munin had learned that the vampire Shadow Colonel was attempting to overthrow Dracula. Odin then explained that the Shadow Colonel had been recruiting allies and it was likely Dracula had gone after Morbius for the same reason, suggesting the possibility of an impending vampire civil war. Later, at an Avengers meeting, the Black Panther revealed to the Avengers the possibility of vampire civil war as a new faction sought to overthrow Dracula, and he recommended Blade for the active Avengers roster.

(Avengers VII#19 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, the Wakanda agent Gorilla-Man became a secret, reluctant servant of Dracula in an effort to rid himself of his curse of immortality in the form of a gorilla.

(Avengers VII#46 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula promised Gorilla-Man that he would eventually be killed for working against the Avengers, an act Gorilla-Man welcomed in order to be free of his curse.

(Avengers VII#14) - The vampire Shadow Colonel and his Legion of the Unliving stormed Castle Dracul in search of Dracula himself, only to find his coffin empty. A war amongst the vampires soon erupted in Dracula's absence with none having any idea where Dracula was, and the Avengers (including Blade) were drawn into the war. Eventually, the Shadow Colonel allowed himself to be taken into Avengers custody in an effort to learn where Dracula was. While the Shadow Colonel declared himself the new Lord of Vampires in Dracula's absence, Dracula himself approached the Russian/Ukrainian border seeking political asylum from the war in Transylvania in what he claimed was the twilight of his life and he requested a meeting with whomever was in charge.

(Avengers VII#15 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula was placed in Federal Penal Colony No. 9 in Sol-Iletsk, Russia.

(Avengers VII#15) - When the Avengers learned that Dracula had shown up in Russia, Iron Man was sent to visit Dracula's cell in an effort to recruit his help in stopping the vampire war that had broken out. After calmly trying to rile Iron Man by commenting on how Iron Man's father, Howard, had once tried to barter Tony Stark's life for eternal life (by giving Howard a sip of Dracula's blood), Dracula admitted that he offered Russia the wisdom gained from centuries of life in exchange for peace and sanctuary. Iron Man offered Dracula Avengers protection and a better life behind bars that what Russia offered if Dracula would agree to help end the vampire war, but Dracula refused, reminding Iron Man that the Avengers had recently added the vampire hunter Blade to their ranks. 

    Iron Man then commented that he could just forcibly take Dracula from Russian custody, but Dracula remarked that Iron Man wouldn't be doing that, as he would be too busy suppressing the prison riot. Almost on cue, Iron Man heard the noises of a prison riot erupting, and he rushed from the cell to find the Crimson Dynamo battling rioting inmates. When Crimson Dynamo asked his teammates if anyone had eyes on Dracula, Iron Man revealed that the riot was Dracula's doing despite the vampire lord having never left his cell. As Iron Man and Crimson Dynamo tensely worked together to quell the riot, Dracula smiled in his cell. Throughout the entire riot, Dracula never tried to break free; and once the riot was calmed, Crimson Dynamo checked on Dracula and found him still in his cell, questioning why Dracula incited the riot to begin with. 

    The Winter Guard's Darkstar suggested that perhaps Dracula just wanted to show that he could cause a riot if he wanted to, and Vanguard suggested Dracula might be truthful in his claims of no longer wanting to fight. When Iron Man remarked that the Winter Guard's superiors were idiots if they believed Dracula's words, Crimson Dynamo punched Iron Man in the stomach and warned him to leave the Winter Guard's business to the Winter Guard or Dracula would gain a new cellmate. From his cell, Dracula laughed and mockingly recited his years old responses to Howard Stark's request for eternal life as Iron Man departed, reporting to the Black Panther that the Avengers would not get Dracula without going to war with the Winter Guard.

(Avengers VII#16) - Dracula was led into his requested meeting with Russian decision makers by the Winter Guard, only to find himself facing the Red Widow, standing in a pool of vampire corpses and blood. The Widow demanded Dracula make whatever proposals he wished to make quickly, but Dracula commented that he did not request a meeting with the Red Widow but rather, someone in charge. The Red Widow responded by explaining that the vampire corpses had come to Russia seeking asylum, which she thusly "provided," asking why Dracula deserved better than his followers. 

    When Dracula remarked that the knowledge he possessed was worth more in his head than spilled on the ground, the Red Widow asked him to prove it. Dracula then revealed how he had politicians, lords, the wealthy and people of power in his allegiance, but the Widow replied by stating that they had all the spymasters they needed. Dracula then claimed he could provide the Avengers and when the Widow asked if he expected the Winter Guard to assist in taking down the Shadow Colonel and restoring Dracula to power in return, Dracula responded in the negative, claiming he no longer had interest in the vampire throne and only wanted a safe place to live out the remainder of his days. 

    The Red Widow then presented her counteroffer as she brought forth one of Dracula's consorts. Dracula tried to protest but the Red Widow slit the consort's throat and ordered Dracula to tell the Winter Guard every secret he possessed and anything of value, promising to kill the consorts quickly if he did. The Widow then remarked that once the teary-eyed Dracula gave up everything of value, they would then talk about the rest of his reward. Dracula was then remanded into the Red Widow's custody.

    The Avengers later received word that Iron Man was heading back to Russia, and when Captain America asked if Iron Man had found Dracula, the Black Panther replied in the negative and remarked that Iron Man had instead found trouble.

(Avengers VII#17) - From a classified location in Russia, Dracula gave up his secrets as the Red Widow slaughtered more and more of his consorts. Eventually, a tearful Dracula announced that he had given up every secret from the past 500 years and asked to be taken anywhere devoid of blood. The Red Widow accepted his proposal and ordered Dracula to be taken away as Ursa Major remarked on how much of a disappointment Dracula turned out to be. Dracula was led out as he thought about how he would be remembered and shortly after, Dracula was deposited into the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. 

    When the Winter Guard were later called to Dracula's former prison to stop the Shadow Colonel, who had converted the prisoners into vampires, most of the Guard was downed by the Colonel's Legion of the Unliving, but the Red Widow proposed to give up Dracula's whereabouts in exchange for something in return. The proposal was interrupted by the arrival of the Avengers with Iron Man wishing to hurt anything that looked like Dracula. While the Avengers battled the Legion of the Unliving, Dracula devoured a crow from his new Chernobyl home and thought about how the Russians must have thought leaving him in the irradiated Chernobyl would be a joke. 

    The Avengers ultimately forced most of the Legion of the Unliving to flee, and when they returned to Avengers Mountain, they discussed how the Winter Guard still had Dracula somewhere in hiding, unaware of Dracula's true location. The remaining Legion of the Unliving members retreated to Chernobyl, where they delivered the body of the still-living Shadow Colonel to Dracula. Informing Dracula that Blade had decapitated the Shadow Colonel, the Legion commented that the Colonel had done his part, and they expressed feelings that the Shadow Colonel still deserved a place in the new vampire kingdom. Dracula proclaimed that it was his right to judge since the Shadow Colonel was his son Xarus. Dracula commended Xarus on doing exactly as ordered before tossing Xarus' severed head behind him and announcing to the rest of the Legion of the Unliving that they were free to rebuild stronger than ever. He then welcomed the Legion to his new kingdom of vampires as his disciples.

(Avengers VII#19 - BTS) - Wakanda agent Gorilla-Man met with the Winter Guard's Ursa Major at the Wundagore Zoo in Transia, and Gorilla-Man asked if Ursa Major had done as instructed with Dracula. Ursa Major replied in the affirmative and informed Gorilla-Man that Dracula had been sent to rot in Chernobyl as the Black Panther had requested. Later reporting back to the Black Panther, Gorilla-Man claimed that there was still no word on Dracula or where the Russians had hidden him. Much later, after Gorilla-Man helped defend Avengers Mountain from invading Asgardian dark elves, he visited the cell of vampire dog Sarge (of the Legion of the Unliving), who made the guilt-ridden Gorilla-Man express his servitude to Dracula, the Legion of the Unliving and the kingdom of the damned.

(Avengers VII#21 - BTS) - Following the War of the Realms against the dark elf Malekith, Blade prepared to depart Avengers Mountain on a mission to find where the Russians had hidden Dracula. As most of the Avengers later relaxed in the hot tub, Black Panther had the Avengers Mountain computer run a report on Phil Coulson and the Squadron Supreme of America, ordering to continue the reports it was already running on Dracula, the Celestial Final Host and others, unaware that the demon Mephisto was viewing a chess game of his manipulations involving Dracula, the Squadron Supreme of America and numerous others the Avengers had recently encountered.

(Wolverine VII#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - Fear and distraction over the mutant nation Krakoa made humans more easily victimized by vampires. 

(Wolverine VII#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula allied with Omega Red, convincing him to infiltrate the mutant nation Krakoa and facilitate some resistance to the sun for vampires in exchange for receiving a Carbonadium Synthesizer, which would allow him to live without having to drain the life force from others.

(Wolverine VII#1/2 (fb) - BTS) - In the course of investigating Omega Red's activities in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France, Wolverine encountered Louise of the Nightguard, devoted to opposing the Vampire Nation. The two opposed a large group of vampires, who apparently obtained some of Wolverine's blood.

(Wolverine VII#1/2) - Dracula received blood transfusions (presumably of Wolverine's blood), granting him resistance to sunlight and garlic for a period of time.

    Omega Red subsequently met with Dracula, who wore a hat, but was otherwise fine in broad daylight. Delivering the Carbonadium synthesizer, Dracula suggested that Omega Red could still live to kill. Dracula then informed Omega Red that they had housed a detonator within the synthesizer to ensure that he remained in the service of the Vampire Nation to prevent mutant interference. 

(Avengers VII#32) - As numerous vampires flocked to Chernobyl after rumors spread of Dracula's new kingdom of vampires there, Dracula and the Legion of the Unliving's Baroness Blood viewed the Rat Bomber scattering the cowardly vampires. When Baroness Blood asked how long Dracula planned to make the less cowardly vampires kneel before opening his doors to them, Dracula commented that Earth's vampires had become weak, easy prey and that they only needed the strong, devoted and fervently damned for their new vampire nation. He then remarked that he would not open his doors for those vampires until he could smell their strength burning from his tower. A select few were then allowed inside, only to face the Carpathian.

    While viewing the fight, Baroness Blood claimed that even an army of scared vampires would not be enough as the Avengers and Blade would eventually find them and scatter the new vampire nation. Dracula responded that she was free to leave at any point, especially during a time when the sun was high in the sky. The Baroness then suggested they needed allies similar to how the Avengers had many allies, and Dracula asked where the Baroness planned to find such allies. 

(Avengers VII#32) - Later, Agent Phil Coulson received a call from his superior, Mephisto, suggesting that the Avengers' enemies unite together against the heroes, but Coulson expressed doubts that wild cards like Dracula, Namor and the Winter Guard would work well together. Coulson soon got pulled into a conference, and as Mephisto hung up the phone, he laughed, considering that he had already manipulated events to ensure that Dracula, Namor and the Winter Guard were working together.

(Wolverine VII#5 (fb) - BTS) - Bloodclocks -- presumably designed by Dr. James Boggs -- worn by the vampires to prolong the healing effects of Wolverine's blood. 

(Wolverine VII#4 - BTS) - At the Red Tavern, as a number of people -- including a woman claiming to be the mother of Gorgon; a former inmate from Dunwich Sanatorium, a man whose fiance had been killed during a Genoshan barfight in which Wolverine was involves, and the bartender, all possibly associated with the Mutant Trauma Support Group -- gathered seeking vengeance on Wolverine, Omega Red slew their associate Fred and framed Wolverine. As they cut a hole in the ice and dropped Wolverine into the frozen waters, Omega Red slew them and then captured Wolverine.

(Wolverine VII#4) - Dracula and a vampire army subsequently arrived.

(Wolverine VII#5 (fb) - BTS) - Dracula and a pair of vampires brought Wolverine -- trapped in a block of ice -- to Ontario, North of Thunder Bay.

(Wolverine VII#5) - Drilling into Wolverine's neck, Dracula collected a large sample of blood. Noting that this would allow them to be daywalkers until the Bloodclocks wound down, Dracula subsequently departed to run his nation.

(Wolverine VII#5 - BTS) - The other two vampires vampirized a number of people en route to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they unleashed these new vampires and joined them in assaulting the city until they were destroyed by Wolverine who had broken free from the ice.

(Wolverine VII#10 - BTS) - When Wolverine and Maverick infiltrated the Merchants warehouse outside of Houston they found it was filled to the brim with superhuman artifacts, among those artifacts was what appeared to be Dracula's coffin. It's been unrevealed if it was authentic.

(Wolverine VII#11 (fb) - BTS) - Up north, where the nights were long, the vampires vampirized the inhabitants of small towns, filled their trailers up with bodies, drove them to big cities, and dumped the vampires on the street.

(King in Black#2) - In Chernobyl, Ukraine, Blade fought his way to Dracula and enlisted his vampire army against Knull.

(Black Cat I#4 (fb) / Black Cat II#5 (fb)) - Terminally ill, the Black Fox sought out Dracula, offering his services in exchange for being transformed into a vampire so he could continue to exist. However, recalling the Black Fox as "Murphy" who had stolen from him decades before, Dracula not only refused but passed on a command through the rest of the vampires not to vampirize the Black Fox, condemning him to die as an old man.