Lucy Westenra

Few characters arrive with quite the literary weight that Lucy Westenra carries — a name drawn straight from Bram Stoker's gothic imagination, brought into Bronze Age comics with her 1981 debut in Vampirella #100, courtesy of creators Archie Goodwin and Tony Caravana. Her catalog appearances span a remarkable 37 years, surfacing across adaptations like Manga Classics: Dracula and Graphic Classics, always in the shadow-rich company of Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula himself, and the other pillars of the classic vampire mythos. She's a character whose presence signals a serious, reverent engagement with the source material — wherever Lucy Westenra appears, you know the story being told has real gothic ambition behind it.