This is the only issue I own of Tomb of Dracula, the first half of his first run-in with Dr. Strange, the latter half of which got touched on in Sunday Splash Page #158. Drac fed on Wong coming back from a grocery run, and Strange needed to break the Lord of Vampires' will so he'd undo that. Didn't really work how Stephen hoped.
It's a book seemingly tailor-made for Gene Colan, with a main character who is all billowing cloak, swirling shadows and mist. Dracula's physical presence is in the damage he inflicts around him, on objects or the people he kills, while he actual body is drawn with a loose, in some ways weightless line that makes him seem more fluid. Fingers unnaturally long, or eyes glaring out of the cloak.
The book ran 75 issues, and I imagine is most well-known for introducing Blade, who does show up briefly in this comic, although he encounters unwilling vampire/paranormal investigator Hannibal King rather than Dracula.
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