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Tomb of Dracula #11: Review

Aug 1973
Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan

Story Name:

The Voodoo-Man!

Review & Comments

Rating:
4 stars

Tomb of Dracula #11 Review by (August 25, 2020)

Review: The dueling vengeances work quite well, though the story has some geographical challenges. Would the gang really ride from London to Dover and back in a single night (76 m/122 km each way)? Wouldn’t they at least postpone attacking Quincy until after a bit of a rest? And how did Dracula locate the gang member at the nightclub? He mentions following clues but what would they be? But the weird thing that really stands out for me is: would Frank and Rachel really go see a play about Dracula? Other than that, the story is pretty good and exciting.

Comments: Only appearance of Jason Faust. The first three of Faust’s voodoo murders took place before this story begins, hence they start with victim four. Cover credits uncertain according to GCD.





 

Synopsis / Summary / Plot

Tomb of Dracula #11 Synopsis by Peter Silvestro

Dracula returns to his coffin in a Surrey mortuary, planning revenge against his enemies, starting with the motorcycle gang that attacked him while he was weak (issue #9 flashback)….

The leader of that gang, Lucas Brand, has been hired by an invalid, Jason Faust, to use his gang to take revenge against his enemies. Next on the list is banker Oliver Gordon; on their way to his office, the gang splashes mud on Frank Drake and Rachel van Helsing, on their way to see a Dracula stage play. Brand confronts Gordon, who did not allow Faust to cash in bonds before the due date; for that reason, Faust was unable to have an operation, leaving him trapped in an iron lung. Brand contacts the boss—who uses the power of voodoo to torment and kill Gordon….

Jason Faust reveals that on a business venture in Haiti, he was captured by natives for violating their sacred ground and subsequently tortured and crippled by voodoo, leaving him an invalid. But one good thing came out of hit: he learned the power of voodoo to use against his enemies….

At a nightclub, Dracula locates a member of the motorcycle gang and scares the man, who left the group because he wanted nothing to do with the Faust job, into telling him he can find his former mates in Dover, on their second murder mission. Dracula flies to the White Cliffs where he finds the victim dead but he is able to trace the motorcycle tracks to the home of their next victim—Quincy Harker. Brand and his hoods tell Quincy that Jason Faust wants revenge for Quincy’s having advised him to go to Haiti but Dracula bursts in, accidentally rescuing his old enemy. Dracula hypnotizes the gang into driving their cycles to the White Cliffs and over but he has a special fate for Lucas Brand. He bites the man, turning him into a vampire, and sends him back to Jason Faust. Brand bites Faust, but Faust pierces a voodoo doll of Brand so that the gang leader dies. Faust becomes a vampire—only to perish with the dawn when the rising sun kills him….



Gene Colan
Jack Abel
Petra Goldberg
Frank Brunner (Cover Penciler)
Tom Palmer (Cover Inker)
Tom Palmer (Cover Colorist)
Letterer: Tom Orzechowski.

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