Friday, December 8, 2023

Dracula #6: The Newton Comics edition

 Newton Comics' Dracula #6 was published October 1975:


The cover is from Marvel Comics' Tomb of Dracula #7:


The main feature in this issue is Night of the Death Stalkers!, originally published in Tomb of Dracula #7. This appears to be reprinted in full without undue tampering.

The backup feature is the first 6 pages of Bounty for a Vampire, originally published in Dracula Lives! #13, July 1975. This story is continued in Dracula #7.

The poster in this issue features the cover image from Marvel Comics Ghost Rider #1:


There was no Ghost Rider series published by Newton however it appeared as a backup feature in Doctor Strange. 

The swap card in my copy is The Avengers Series A (1 of 15) No. 2, being the cover to Newton Comics' The Avengers #2.

This issue was advertised in-house in Silver Surfer #2, 25 October 1975:

This cover was used as a poster. This pic is from Silver Surfer #3:


This issue contains the following in-house advertisements:

Conan the Barbarian #5


These two advertisements also reference the Hulk King Size Annual #1.

This issue is not cover-dated, and there is no publication date in the indicia. The contest expiry date is 1 December 1975. This suggests a publication date of 18 October 1975. This date is supported by the ad for The Incredible Hulk #8, which I date to 11 October, so it would be the current issue on the stands. I date the Hulk King Size Annual to 20 September, which presumably had an extended shelf life. I have yet to firmly date Conan the Barbarian #5. I also note it is possible Dracula #6 was subject to a delay in publication, given the erroneous numbering on the advertisement above in Silver Surfer #2.

This issue also includes an advertisement for Origins of Marvel Comics on the inner front cover; two Marvel Mailbag pages; a Lone Ranger Kit contest, as mentioned above, on the inner rear cover; and a Black Panther t-shirt offer on the rear cover.

And for those keeping track of such things, Night of the Death Stalkers! and the cover to Marvel Comics' Tomb of Dracula #7 were also published in Australia by Yaffa a few years later in The Tomb of Dracula #3:


A few years later Yaffa recycled this issue in the digest-sized unnumbered one-shot Night of the Vampire:




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