Dracula Lives #10 for Sale - First Appearance of Arthur Holmwood - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series)
Issue: #10
Publication date: January 1975
Key date: 1975-01-00
On-sale date: 1974-11-05
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.75
Pages: 68

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Arthur Holmwood - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Lucy Westenra - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Velanna Lupescu - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Enikõ Lupescu - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	A Woman in the Clutches of the Lord of Vampires	cover	1	pencils: Luis Dominguez; inks: Luis Dominguez; colors: Luis Dominguez	Dracula
1	Dracula Lives	illustration	1	pencils: Don Maitz; inks: Duffy Vohland	Dracula
2	-	table of contents	1	pencils: various; ? (photography); inks: various; ? (photography); letters: typeset	Dracula, Lilith
3	The Marvel Bullpen Page Goes Black and White and Read All Over	in-house column	1	script: Marv Wolfman	Dracula
4	The Pit of Death [Part 1]	comic story	10	script: Doug Moench; pencils: Tony DeZuniga; inks: Tony DeZuniga; letters: Marcos Pelayo	Dracula, Enikõ Lupescu First, Velanna Lupescu First
5	Dracula A.D. 1972	text article	6	script: Gary Gerani
6	Dracula Recap	recap	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography); letters: typeset
7	Chapter V - Ship of Death	comic story	10	script: Roy Thomas, Bram Stoker; pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Joe Rosen	Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Lucy Westenra First, Arthur Holmwood First, Quincey P. Morris
8	The Blood Book	comic story	16	script: Steve Gerber; pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Neal Adams, Bob McLeod, Terry Austin, Russ Heath; letters: Karen Mantlo	Martin Gold, Lilith, Angel O'Hara
9	A Vampire Stalks Melrose Abbey	comic story	2	script: Doug Moench; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Denise Wohl
10	-	letters page	2	pencils: Tony DeZuniga, Pablo Marcos; inks: Tony DeZuniga, Pablo Marcos

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Tomb of Dracula #4 ISBN 9780785117094	2005	On eBay ›
Stoker's Dracula #2	2005	On eBay ›
Stoker's Dracula #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-1477-7	2005	On eBay ›
Dracula #2	2010	On eBay ›
The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-3578-4	2010	On eBay ›
Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection #3 ISBN 978-1-302-92036-4	2019	On eBay ›
Marvel Horror Lives Again! Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-92746-2	2020	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #910 of 13#11 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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