Dracula Lives #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Bettina Kaposvar - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: [May] 1973
Key date: 1973-05-00
On-sale date: 1973-02-20
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.75
Pages: 76

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Bettina Kaposvar - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Boris Vallejo; inks: Boris Vallejo; colors: Boris Vallejo	Dracula
1	-	table of contents	1	pencils: various; ? (photography); inks: various; ? (photography); letters: typeset
2	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
3	A Poison of the Blood	comic story	13	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Tom Palmer; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Dracula
4	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
5	Suffer Not a Witch...	comic story	12	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Alan Weiss; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Dracula, Bettina Kaposvar First
6	Dracula Is Alive and Well and Living on Madison Avenue!	text article	1.5	script: Roy Thomas
7	Monsters Unleashed!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
8	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
9	Zombie!	comic story	6	pencils: Tony DiPreta; inks: Tony DiPreta	Blackie Nolan; Larsen
10	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
11	Ghost of a Chance!	comic story	2	pencils: Bill La Cava; inks: Bill La Cava	Mac
12	What Can You Say About a Five-Hundred-Year-Old Vampire Who Refuses to Die?	text article	6	script: Marv Wolfman
13	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
14	Fright!	comic story	7	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Russ Heath; inks: Russ Heath	Kurt; Drake; Emma
15	-	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: ? (photography); inks: ? (photography)
16	To Walk Again in Daylight!	comic story	10	script: Steve Gerber; pencils: Rich Buckler; inks: Pablo Marcos; letters: Joe Rosen	Dracula
17	Next Issue	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67	script: ? (promo copy)	Dracula

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Tomb of Dracula #4 ISBN 9780785117094	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-2088-2	2006	On eBay ›
Essential Tales of the Zombie #1 ISBN 0-7851-1916-7	2006	On eBay ›
The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-3578-4	2010	On eBay ›
Marvel Firsts: The 1970s #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-6380-0	2011	On eBay ›
Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection #1 ISBN 978-1-302-90931-4	2017	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-91840-8	2019	On eBay ›
FOOM Magazine #1	1973	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula #1 ISBN 978-1-302-92947-3	2021	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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