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Challenge to Dracula

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Eddie Munster, the later yearsClick for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: Dracula was told he would look prettier if he smiled more.

Published 1975

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 6.89 out of 10)
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18 Responses to “Challenge to Dracula”

  1. Dr Bob Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 10:33 am

    Has Viking guy put on his wife’s boob-plate and chainmail armour by mistake?

  2. JJYoyo Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 11:06 am

    That doesn’t look like a Viking helmet on his head. That looks like a teapot.
    Is the Viking supposed to be Mighty Wizard Ka-Zadok?

    Are we to think he is a Hasidic Viking, Ka-Tzadik?

    Will they play Handel’s missing anthem “Ka-Zadok the Wizard” at Charles’s coronation? Will Dracula conduct? Shall the Viking be mother at tea?

    This cover. So many question…..

  3. JuanPaul Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    You might want to get that melanoma checked out, Son of Dra****

  4. Tat Wood Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    One for UK readers: judging by the lining in that precarously-balanced coffin, this is a sequel to ‘Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire’.

    One for US readers: the early applicants for ‘Spawn of Svengoolie’ aren’t too promising.

  5. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 3:48 pm

    There is so much wrong with this cover – the snake-helmet viking, shoddy coffin construction, Stuka bats flying out of the sun, Son of Dracula not bursting into flames.

    Look closely at SoD, and you can see remnants of his previous meal. Probably the cover artist.

  6. Daard23 Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    @Tat Wood “Berwyn ?!?”

  7. fred Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 4:13 pm

    In the immortal words of Matt Smith, “Bowties are cool.”

  8. Bruce A Munro Says:
    October 12th, 2022 at 6:40 pm

    So, if he returned from the dead…does that make him a zombie wizard Viking? And being a Viking probably makes him a pirate, too.

  9. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 13th, 2022 at 12:01 am

    “Ka-Dazok” doesn’t sound like a Viking name. More Mesopotamia or Egypt.

    Maybe it’s the sound his magick makes when applied: “KA-DAZOK!!!” a la Don Martin.

    @JJYoyo: GSS! (particularly the Handel reference)

    @TheBlue: GSS. You’ve summed it up well.

    @Tat: I thought maybe Drac Jr. was suffering from some sort of grave rot or mold, but thanks to you I see it’s just where the coffin lining came loose and stuck to his face.

  10. Lars Of Mars Says:
    October 13th, 2022 at 12:35 am

    Vampires are undead, how can they even reproduce?
    And doesn’t the “Dra” or “Drac” part of the name already mean “son of”?

  11. Emster Says:
    October 13th, 2022 at 1:27 am

    Um… the font…ah-ooooooooo! Scary stuff!

    Son of Drac had enough of his dad’s goofy get-up and ongoing drama with Ka-Dozonk and is now in London taking evening accounting classes to become a chartered accountant…

  12. Lars of Mars Says:
    October 13th, 2022 at 2:51 am

    @Tat Wood, @ Daard23
    At the 2019 edition of Brickworld, the convention for Adult Fans of LEGO, I found a giant Mosaic of Svengoolie (“Berwynnnn?”).
    I said to the nice lady behind table “Well, it could be worse. Could be Winooski, Vermont, which was definitely the Berwynnn of Vermont when I lived in Vermont” (From birth to age 14).
    Astoundingly, she not only knew what the hell I was talking about, she had also lived in Vermont!

  13. JJYoyo Says:
    October 13th, 2022 at 3:33 am

    @Blue: Stuka bats! Good show sir! That would make an awesome new tag! Or my next band name.

  14. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 14th, 2022 at 12:32 am

    Another GSS for “Stuka Bats”!

    Which is a great band name if you’re a teenage boy who has Deep Thoughts about Darke and Evyl. Or a parody — I can see Cartman calling his next band that and the Goth kids calling him a poser (or whatever they say nowadays).

  15. The Blue Are Coming Says:
    October 14th, 2022 at 1:52 am

    Thanks, guys 🙂

    Gotta admit…”Stuka Bats” would be a hella band name.

  16. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 15th, 2022 at 10:49 pm

    I also feel that the “Stuka Bats” could open for “Tenacious D”.

    Don’t tell me Jack Black wouldn’t dig the name “Stuka Bats”.

  17. Tracy Says:
    October 20th, 2022 at 5:26 pm

    Anyone else notice Drac’s odd dentition? His teeth, save the fangs, are all the same size and arrayed in a strip like Barney the dinosaur’s.

  18. GSS ex-noob Says:
    October 20th, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    @Tracy: Maybe Transylvania has a shortage of dentists, and Drac had to go with bad dentures.

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