Tomb of Dracula #50

Reaching its milestone fiftieth issue in 1976, Tomb of Dracula celebrates with a crossover that feels genuinely earned — the Lord of Vampires squaring off against the Silver Surfer, as Gene Colan and Tom Palmer's cover makes thrillingly clear. The scene crackles with tension: a gleaming Silver Surfer rides his board toward a snarling, bat-winged Dracula looming in the background, while a second cloaked figure recoils from a blazing cosmic energy beam, speech bubbles declaring the Surfer's intent to destroy and Dracula branding himself "the most deadly horror the earth has ever known." It's a genuinely inspired collision of Marvel's horror and cosmic corners, and Marv Wolfman's "Where Soars the Silver Surfer!" promises the kind of grand, atmospheric storytelling this series built its reputation on.