Dracula

The immortal vampire lord Dracula — rooted in Bram Stoker's 19th-century Gothic novel — made his comics debut terrorizing readers in Eerie #12 (1953), bringing his centuries-old reign as an undead Transylvanian count and master of the night to the horror comics page.

Few figures in comics carry the gothic weight of Dracula, who first stalked the printed page in Eerie #12 back in 1953 — a Golden Age debut that planted a stake in horror comics history before the genre even knew what hit it. Over an extraordinary span stretching more than seven decades to the present day, this lord of darkness has proven remarkably enduring, racking up 85 catalog appearances and four key issues that collectors prize. Dynamite Entertainment has been a particularly fitting home, lending him prestige treatments including The Complete Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, alongside the unlikely but irresistible company of Red Sonja — and across his long career he's shared pages with titans as varied as Frankenstein's monster, Godzilla, and Superman himself. If you have any appetite for horror's royalty done right in ink and color, this is a character whose catalogue rewards the devoted reader.