Tomb of Dracula #31

The Lord of the Undead looms large and menacing in the background of this striking 1975 Marvel cover, as a desperate family conflict erupts in the foreground — a turbaned man raises a wooden stake over a young vampire bound with rope, while a woman in a yellow sari pleads, "No, Taj — you must not kill him!" and a caption cries, "This vampire is our son!" The tagline "Child of Blood!" captures the anguished heart of the cover's tension perfectly. Cover art by Gil Kane and Tom Palmer brings a raw, kinetic urgency to the scene that makes this issue of Tomb of Dracula genuinely hard to put down unread.