Count Duckula

Few characters blend horror-comedy and cartoon charm quite like Count Duckula, the vegetarian vampire duck who quacked his way into Marvel Comics in 1988, courtesy of creators Michael Gallagher and Warren Kremer. Born from the beloved animated series of the same era, this Copper Age curiosity brought the bumbling, bloodless Count to the page alongside his long-suffering companions Igor and Nanny, with the ever-persistent Dr. Von Goosewing hot on his tail. The run was brief — spanning just a couple of years — but for fans of that wonderfully irreverent late-'80s cartoon-to-comic pipeline, tracking down these issues is a delightful little treasure hunt.