Frank Drake

A descendant of Count Dracula who squandered his inheritance, Frank Drake stumbled into vampire hunting after a fateful visit to Dracula's ancestral castle in Transylvania drew him into a life-or-death confrontation with his legendary ancestor.

Few characters can claim they were there at the very beginning of Marvel's landmark horror revival, but Frank Drake was present from the first page of Tomb of Dracula #1 in 1972 — a Bronze Age debut that helped define an era when Marvel leaned fearlessly into gothic terror. Created by the formidable team of Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, and Gene Colan, Drake has spent over five decades haunting the margins of Marvel's darker corners, racking up more than a hundred catalog appearances across Tomb of Dracula, Dracula Lives, and beyond. He keeps extraordinary company — sharing pages with vampire-hunting legends like Rachel Van Helsing, Quincy Harker, and the incomparable Blade/Eric Brooks — and three of his appearances carry the weight of key-issue status, making him a genuine prize for Bronze Age collectors. If you love Marvel horror at its most atmospheric and ambitious, Frank Drake is absolutely worth tracking down.