Dark Horse Comics is taking a bite out of vintage Marvel horror comics with The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales: Volume One, publishing August 18.
Priced at $65, the oversized hardcover edition collects nearly 300 pages from the first six issues of the classic horror anthology magazine, along with a new introduction.
It includes stories from Stan Lee, Alfredo Alcala, Rich Buckler, Ernie Chan, Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Bill Everett, Gardner Fox, Steve Gerber, Carmine Infantino, Tony Isabella, Gil Kane, Don McGregor, Pablo Marcos, Esteban Maroto, Doug Moench, Tom Palmer, John Romita, Jim Steranko, Tom Sutton, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, and more.
The collection is helmed by comics historians Chris Ryall and John Lind, alongside designer Chris Shadoian.
Launched by Marvel in 1973, Vampire Tales featured tales of bloodsucking fiends as both heroes and villains, including Morbius the Living Vampire, Blade the Vampire Slayer, Dracula’s daughter Lilith, and the Devil’s daughter Satana.
The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales is the first in a series of archival hardcover editions in the works from Dark Horse and Marvel Comics.
