The next month’s Bullpen Bulletins offered more details - including the new magazine’s title (or at least the leading contenders for same):Īccording to an editorial that ran a couple of years later in Dracula Lives #1, the idea for Marvel’s second b&w title originated with its publisher, Martin Goodman - a fact which may surprise those familiar with Goodman’s actions in regards to editor Stan Lee’s previous attempt to crack the magazine-sized comics market, The Spectacular Spider-Man. Perhaps the first inkling comics readers had of its development had come by way of a vague reference on the Marvel Bullpen Bulletins page appearing in comics published that March in the midst of a news item explaining the moves of several artists from one title to another, the following statement appeared:īy “another 50¢ mag labeled M”, the anonymous Bulletin scribe meant that Marvel was planning a companion to Savage Tales, a black-and-white comics magazine intended “for the mature reader” whose first issue had gone on sale in January. The Marvel Comics title that would become Tomb of Dracula appears to have been in the works for quite some time prior to its first issue reaching stands in November, 1971.
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