Tomb of Dracula #68

The penultimate issue of Marvel's long-running horror series arrives with a cover by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer that crackles with dread — a caped, wide-eyed figure reels in terror as snarling vampires close in from every side, rotting hands claw up from the earth below, and giant bats swarm overhead. The cover's ominous tagline, "From the grave they come to slay a vampire turned human!", sets up a premise rich with dark irony — a creature of the night now vulnerable to the very predators he once ruled. This January 1979 issue, proudly badged as "Comicdom's Number 1 Fear Magazine," shows the series going out with the kind of atmospheric intensity that made Tomb of Dracula essential reading throughout the decade.