Tomb of Dracula #37
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeTomb of Dracula #37 is the debut issue for three characters who would become fixtures of the series' second act: the hapless pulp writer Harold H. Harold, his publisher's secretary Aurora Rabinowitz, and Doctor Sun's deadly enforcer Juno — all introduced in a single issue that reshapes the cast dynamic around Dracula's arrival in Boston. Harold's introduction is particularly significant to the series' storytelling identity: Wolfman used him as an everyman comic foil who blunders into Dracula's orbit and stays there, providing a civilian perspective inside the horror that no straight-faced vampire hunter could. The issue also marks the close of Brother Voodoo's multi-issue arc alongside Frank Drake in Brazil, an early example of Tomb of Dracula's willingness to weave in other corners of Marvel's Bronze Age supernatural line. Across its 70-issue run, the Wolfman-Colan-Palmer creative engine made this title what comics historian Les Daniels described as the most successful comic book series to feature a villain as its title character.
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The issue was written by Marv Wolfman, penciled by Gene Colan, inked and colored by Tom Palmer, lettered by Joe Rosen, and edited by Len Wein — the core team that defined the series' Bronze Age peak. Wolfman and Colan developed an unusually close collaboration on the book, with Wolfman providing written plots supplemented by phone discussions, allowing Colan to shape the pacing visually before the dialogue was finalized. The issue shipped with an October 1975 cover date and carries the Marvel Value Stamp Series A #12 (Daredevil), consistent with the promotional stamp program Marvel ran in its comics during this period. It has since been confirmed that the character Harold H. Harold functioned, at least in spirit, as a tongue-in-cheek authorial stand-in for Wolfman himself — a reading supported by a later Howard the Duck magazine parody that explicitly depicted Harold as Wolfman's alter ego.
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- First appearance of Harold H. Harold (created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan), a blocked pulp horror writer who accidentally rescues a weakened Dracula and becomes a recurring presence in the cast through the series' final act.
- First appearance of Aurora Rabinowitz, secretary to magazine editor Mr. Greadely and Harold's love interest, who also recurs throughout the remainder of the Wolfman run.
- First appearance of Juno, Doctor Sun's cybernetically equipped enforcer — distinguished by a silver-stake prosthetic — who serves as the principal physical threat in the multi-issue Doctor Sun story arc climaxing in issues #38–39.
- Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm) and the spirit of Daniel Drumm make an appearance concluding their Brazil storyline with Frank Drake; Brother Voodoo uses his powers to transport Drake back to the United States, where he reunites with Quincy Harker and Rachel Van Helsing. Brother Voodoo's next appearance after this issue is Werewolf by Night #38.
- The story title is 'The Vampire Is Coming! The Vampire Is Coming!' — a Paul Revere allusion fitting the Boston setting, which becomes the series' primary U.S. locale for this stretch of issues.
- Dracula is shown significantly weakened by Doctor Sun's ongoing energy drain, a plot thread that drives the next two issues and culminates in one of the title character's major in-continuity deaths.
- The issue contains Marvel Value Stamp Series A #12 (Daredevil), part of the insert-stamp promotional program that ran across multiple Marvel titles in the mid-1970s.
- The issue has been reprinted in Essential Tomb of Dracula Vol. 2 (black and white), The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus Vol. 2 (2009), Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 4 (2020), and Marvel Masterworks: Brother Voodoo Vol. 1 (2021, three pages) as well as Marvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula Vol. 4 (2024).
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Reprinted in Comic Reader #120 (1975), Dracula Lives #79 (1976), Le Tombeau de Dracula #37 (1976), Dracula #23 (1979), Dracula #12 (1983), Dracula #2/1983 (1983), Essential Tomb of Dracula #2 (2004), The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #2 (2009), Marvel Horror Omnibus #[nn] (2019), Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection #4 (2020), Marvel Masterworks: Brother Voodoo #1 (2021), Marvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula #4 (2024)
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