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Poison of the Blood
Dracula has come to Manhattan to investigate a newspaper article about Jackson Kubbard, the founder of Mysticology Inc., wherein Kubbard claims to be the reincarnation of Dracula's hated enemy Cagliostro. Dracula intends to learn the truth and if need be slay the mystic who has plagued him for so many centuries.
Needing to sate his blood lust, Dracula attacks a man on the street, however to Dracula's misfortune this man is a junkie who's blood was tainted with heroin. Realizing what had happened, Dracula succumbs to the drug's effects and passes out. Dracula wakes up in a jail cell next to a man who was arrested before he could shoot up. Dracula feeds upon this fresh victim to cleanse himself of the tainted blood in his system and escapes out the barred windows in the form of a bat and continues his mission.
Tracking Kubbard, Dracula goes to the a popular coffee shop and spots a young woman named Madeline Rogers. Dracula is drawn to the amulet that she is wearing her that identifies her as a Mysticologist that follows Kubbard's teachings. Learning from her that Kubbard has planned a gathering for that night, she agrees to take Dracula along with her.
Along the way, Dracula is suddenly wracked with pain, and realizes that he is going through heroin withdrawal from the blood he drank from the junkie earlier that evening. Dracula fights off the pain and the two take a cab the rest of the way, as Dracula reflects on his travels from Europe to Manhattan. Arriving at the theater where Kubbard is planning on putting on his next performance, Dracula witnesses a sacrifice in progress.
However, before Kubbard kills the woman on the altar, he stops and spreads his message and boasts that he is the reincarnation of Cagliostro before resigning for the evening. Dracula has Madeline take him backstage to attempt to seek an audience with Kubbard. However the bouncer refuses to let them pass until Dracula uses his hypnotic will on him allowing Dracula passage, but leaving Rogers behind, who leaves feeling rejected.
Inside Kubbard's room, Dracula confronts him to learn the truth and Kubbard admits that he is nothing more than a fraud. Furious, and craving untainted blood, Dracula attacks Kubbard and feeds upon him. Kubbard's dying screams bring Madeline and the police coming to the property. Dracula easily fights past the police and is confronted by Madeline. Dracula admits that he used her for his own ends and that she is fortunate to still have her life. Dracula then turns into bat form and returns to the ship where his coffin waits for him to begin his daily rest leaving Madeline Rogers to return home to find her own direction in life.
| StoryTitle2 = Suffer Not A Witch... | Writer2_1 = Roy Thomas | Penciler2_1 = Alan Weiss | Inker2_1 = Dick Giordano | Colorist2_1 = Black and White | Letterer2_1 = Gaspar Saladino | Editor2_1 = Roy Thomas
| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Dracula) **Supporting Characters:** * Charity Brown) * Tituba) **Antagonists:** * Miles Alden) **Other Characters:** * Brides of Dracula) ** Bettina) ** Nikolett Bodo) ** Emese Kisfaludi) * Devil_(Earth-616)) * Beelzebub) **Races and Species:** * Vampires * Humans) * Horses * Bats) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earthspace ** Earth *** Europe **** Hungary ***** Transylvania ****** Castle Dracula ***** Biztritz *** North America **** Pre-Colonial America ***** Massachusetts Bay Colony) ****** Boston ****** Salem) * Heaven)
**Events:** * Salem Witch Trials Category:Salem Witch Trials
| Synopsis2 = **1691:** Within Castle Dracula, Dracula broods before his brides, the three female vampires attempt to cheer up Dracula, however they only succeed in infuriating him further and he sends them away. On this night, Dracula does not want wanton pleasures, but a fitting bride to fill the void in his life.
While far off in the New World, in Salem Massachusetts, young Charity Brown dances out into the night even though the act goes against the teachings of the very religious Goodman Miles Alden. Dracula reaches out to the girl and asks her to call him master, offering her every desire. She agrees to let Dracula be her master and he marks her with his sign: a bat shaped mark on her breast.
She is unaware that she is watched by Goodman Alden who confronts her and attempts to have his way with her. However she fights him off and flees back into the village. Alden screams after her telling her there are other ways he can force her into giving him what he wants. When she returns to Salem, she is accosted by old women who notice her mark and accuses her of being a witch. She is pushed through a whirlwind trial and is found guilty and is sentenced to hanging. As she waits for the construction of the hanging tress, Alden visits the outside of her cell frequently to mock her predicament.
Meanwhile, Dracula has been rushing to the Americas to be by his chosen bride's side. Sensing danger, Dracula flies to the mainland and arrives too late and finds that Charity has already been executed and is dead. Furious, Dracula kills Alden with his bare hands and decides to punish the village for their abiding Brown's execution.
Dracula then tracks down a girl named Tituba and bites her making her his thrall and he orders her to wait twelve months to exact his revenge on the people of Salem when their memory of Chastity's execution has all but faded from memory. Dracula would turn and return home leaving Tituba to orchestrate the series of events that would lead to the Salem Witch Hunts of American History.
| ReprintOf3 = Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 5 | ReprintOfStory3 = 3
| ReprintOf4 = Adventures into Terror Vol 1 8 | ReprintOfStory4 = 5 | StoryTitle4 = Ghost of a Chance!
| ReprintOf5 = Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 5 | ReprintOfStory5 = 1
| StoryTitle6 = To Walk Again In Daylight! | Writer6_1 = Steve Gerber | Penciler6_1 = Rich Buckler | Inker6_1 = Pablo Marcos | Colorist6_1 = Black and White | Letterer6_1 = Joe Rosen | Editor6_1 = Roy Thomas
| Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Dracula) **Supporting Characters:** * Unnamed Researcher **Antagonists:** * Guillaume du Monte) **Other Characters:** * Charity Brown) **Races and Species:** * Vampires * Bats) * Humans) * Leeches) **Realities:** * Earth-616 **Locations:** * Earth ** Europe *** Austro-Hungarian Empire **** Austria ***** Vienna) *** France **** Hotel Image
| Synopsis6 = Dracula has come to France to seek out a scientific solution to his weakness to daylight and seeks out a doctor named Du Monte to try and free him from this limitation. Breaking into Du Monte's home, he confronts Du Monte with his demands. Du Monte hears his story, and agrees to help Dracula on the condition that he does not kill the scientist after his work is done.
Du Monte sends Dracula to steal notes from another home that Du Monte claims were stolen from him. With little patience, Dracula tears the study apart rousing the owner of the house. Dracula quickly kills the man and feeds upon him before finding his desired papers and returning to Du Monte's home.
Before handing the papers over to Du Monte, Dracula demands to know if he can be restored to human form once again. However, Dracula soon realizes that Du Monte intended to double cross him when the doctor pulls a crucifix and trains it on the vampire. Taunting the vampire, Du Monte explains that he will keep the vampire at bay until dawn insuring his complete destruction and that the research he stole and the man he killed was Dracula's only hope for a cure.
Du Monte does not succeed unfortunately, as Dracula uses his hypnotic powers to weaken Du Monte's resolve enough for Dracula to swat the cross away. Dracula would then feed upon Du Monte, and do the one thing Du Monte feared the most: Being turned into a vampire.
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| Notes = ===Continuity Notes=== * In *A Poison of the Blood*, Jackson Kubbard is referred to at least once as "Jack Kimbal" in a caption. * *Suffer Not A Witch* takes place in part in 1691, a year before Massachusetts was formally established as a colony. Tituba, one of the characters featured therein, is a famous historical figure, who has been incorporated into the Marvel Universe through her encounter with Dracula. The story is also partly set in Transylvania, also in 1691. Although Transylvania is currently located in Romania, in "our" universe, in 1691, it was recognized as part of Hungary by the Habsburg Empire, which controlled Transylvania at the time. Assuming the history of the Marvel Universe mirrors ours in this part of the world, then Transylvania should be considered part of Hungary for the purposes of this story. * *To Walk Again In Daylight* takes place in the late 1800s.
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Creative credits
Writers: Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Steve Gerber
Interior art: Gene Colan, Alan Weiss, Rich Buckler
Color: Black and White, Black and White, Black and White
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