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viste le parcelle dei dentisti qui da noi, poco incoraggianti se non del tutto proibitive (e oltretutto poi avete anche il coraggio di lamentarvi se un fumetto costa 10 euro o poco più !), molti hanno iniziato ad andarsi a curare la bocca all’ estero, soprattutto nei paesi dell’ est dove le categorie professionali autoctone propongono prezzi molto competitivi e allettanti. la ragione è molto semplice : la scuola odontoiatrica in queste regioni ha radici antichissime, era molto sviluppata già nel medioevo e annovera nel suo invidiabile palmares interventi di rifacimento e protesi di prestigio a personaggi molto noti ed influenti quali attila, gengis khan, il conte ugolino, erszébet bathory e vlad III di valacchia detto l’ impalatore. Nella fase del blocco socialista, poi, sono stati ulteriormente perfezionati ed affinati il metodo e la tecnologia: poichè , come tutti ben sanno, i comunisti mangiavano i bambini, la popolazione di questi paesi aveva una estrema necessità di mantenere dentature sempre molto sane e robuste , ben funzionanti , in perfetto ordine e massima efficienza, per potere incidere, masticare, trinciare e triturare anche i soggetti piu’ tenaci, refrattari e coriacei. Da qui l’ origine del successo e il segreto del proliferare delle cliniche dell’ europa orientale, in particolare di romania, ungheria e bulgaria, che si sono fatte conoscere ed apprezzare in tutto il mondo per il talento, la capacità e la efficacia delle cure fornite dai suoi addetti e dal suo personale, oltre che per una politica di mercato altamente aggressiva e concorrenziale sul piano internazionale.
Ma attenti alle truffe: in alcuni centri vengono ancora praticate usanze locali molto antiche e poco conosciute, in cui il paziente, una volta addormentato, si risveglia poi ignaro di essere stato sottoposto a ripetuti salassi e di essere stato alleggerito di parecchi etti di sangue in meno, col risultato di tornare in patria e doversi curare una gravissima anemia con esiti disastrosi sul piano della salute e delle finanze.
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DRACULA
EDITORIALE CORNO
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1976
contiene inoltre : LA MUMMIA VIVENTE
Il materiale pubblicato all’ interno di questa serie è attinto da testate usa
conclamatamente cult come tomb of
dracula , werewolf by night ( LICANTROPUS by Mike Ploog ) , supernatural thrillers ( LIVING
MUMMY / LA MUMMIA VIVENTE) , tutti serials cinicamente e vergognosamente mutuati dalla
frangia più
estrema, insulsa, infame , eccitante e raccapricciante della
letteratura junk e del cinema di serie B.
TOMB
OF DRACULA prosegue qui con la cronologia da dove si era interrotta
sugli A.S.E. ( gli Albi dei Super Eroi) , ovvero dall’ undicesimo
episodio fino a giungere al trentanovesimo ( quelli dal 40° al 44°
appariranno poi successivamente su Shang-Chi e i restanti sulla
miniserie Star La Tomba di Dracula
). gli autori sono leggendari e
magnifici : Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, Tom Palmer, Jack Abel, covers di
Gil Kane
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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“To Kill a Vampire!” / UCCIDERE UN VAMPIRO !
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Featured Characters:
- Blade (Origin revealed)
- Quincy Harker
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Dracula (Death)
Other Characters:
- Saint
- Edith Harker (Corpse)
- Deacon Frost (First appearance) (Only in flashback )
- Lucas Brand
- Josiah Dawn
Locations:
- London
- Surrey Forest
Synopsis
Quincy Harker has just been forced to kill his own daughter after Dracula has turned her into a vampire. While Harker mourns the loss of his daughter, Frank Drake is furious and wants to go after Dracula right awawy. Frank takes out his anger on Blade, who shrugs it off and suggests that they dispose of Edith’s body before resuming their hunt for Dracula, an idea that Quincy agrees with.
Meanwhile, Dracula has fled to another part of Londo where he comes across a man named Skinnee who is advancing on a woman named Cecile who is not interested in him. Dracula interrupts the attempted rape and kills Skinnee, and then uses his hypnotic powers of Cecile. He feeds on her, but doesn’t killing her, satisfied with the fact that he can summon her as his slave whenever he chooses. Dracula flies off and decides to learn more about 20th century humanity so he can better understand it for the purposes of conquering it. Dracula decides to make his first visit a nearby sports arena.
While at the Scotland Yard morgue in London, a man named Mr. Lo has come on the behalf of his master Dr. Sun. He bribes the man running the front desk to allow him to see the body of Lucas Brand. Taking the body, Mr. Lo kills the morgue staffer so that no trace of his involvement can be learned.
Back at the sports arena, Dracula enters to find a boxing match going in full swing. Dracula finds this mock battle a pathetic and revolting at the same time, before leaving to return to the night skies.
Later at the home of Quincy Harker just after the cremation of Edith, Blade confides in the other vampire hunters. He explains that he began hunting vampires so that he can track down and kill the one that murdered his mother. He explains that while his mother was pregnant with him, there were complications which necessitated a doctor being called in. Unknown to all until it was too late was that the doctor that came was really a vampire. As Blade’s mother was giving birth to him, the vampire fed upon her, killing her in the process. When his mothers friends burst into the room, the vampire fled out the window leaving them to complete the child birth, even though Blade’s mother was now dead. When they told him the tale when he was older, they remarked how he never cried after being born, nor has he ever cried once since. With his story finish, Blade tells off the other vampire hunters that they are not in a moral high ground to preach to him about mourning those who died at the hands of vampires.
As Dracula returns to his hide out in his mortuary, he is unaware that Scotland Yard has been tracking his movements as he flies home in his bat form. The Yard then contacts Quincy Harker who travels to the location near where the bat was last sited. They ask the post master if he has seen someone matching Dracula’s description, and the man goes into a hypnotic gaze when he is shown a composite drawing.
Realizing that Dracula is near, they track him to the nearby mortuary just as night is falling again. When Dracula rises, his telepathic link with the townspeople warns him that Harker and his friends are coming and prepares for their arrival. As the vampire hunters break into Dracula’s hideout, the vampire lord summons all those in his thrall to come to his aid.
However, before these mindless slaves can reach the mortuary, Dracula’s foes manage to outnumber him, and eventually Blade gets close enough to the vampire lord to steak him through the heart, effectively killing Dracula.
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“Dracula Is Dead!” / DRACULA E’ MORTO !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Dracula (Resurrected)
Other Characters:
- Josiah Dawn (dies)
- Lucas Brand
Locations:
- Surrey Forest
- North Ireland
- London
Synopsis
Blade has managed to slay Dracula by impaling him in the heart with one of his wooden daggers. However, before the vampire hunters can get rid of Dracula’s body, the villages in Dracula’s thrall break into the mortuary and overpower the heroes, taking away Dracula’s corpse. They carry the body out, leaving Quincy and the others fearing that they may bring Dracula back to life.
Meanwhile, along the Irish Coastline, Mr. Lo arrives at a mansion with the dead body of the vampire Lucas Brand. Conducting an experiment for his master, Doctor Sun, Lo begins performing experiments upon the vampires inert body. Their initial tests confirm that Brand truly is a vampire.
Back with the heroes, as they collect themselves and begin going after Dracula’s body, they find that Taj Nitall (tossed out of a window during their battle with Dracula) is alive and well and he rejoins their band. While not far away, Dracula’s corpse, now placed within a casket by his mindless slaves, begins to crumble to bare bones. After this happens, the people snap out of his control and fearfully drop the coffin and flee the scene.
While not far away at the revival tent of the Chruch of the Forever Resurrected, Father Josiah Dawn begins to question his faith due to the diminishing attendance of his revival mission. Tossing his Bible away in anger, Josiah quickly repents and asks his Lord to show him a sign. Be it destiny, or design, Josiah spots Dracula’s abandoned coffin nearby and finds Dracula’s body within. Finding it as a sign of God, Josiah begins to advertises that during his next revival he will bring a man back from the dead.
The press does indeed fill the revival tent to capacity some time later. When news reaches Quincy Harker and the others, they are horrified to find that the man that Josiah intends to revive is none other than their old foe Dracula himself.
At the revival itself, Dawn manages to bring the crowd into a frenzy and works them up to demand he begin the “resurrection” that all believe is the power of God. Having learned of the rival as well, Blade has arrived to attempt to stop it, however he cannot break through the crowd fast enough to stop Josiah from pulling the wooden dagger from the skeletons chest. Blade tries to warn Josiah, who dismisses him as a base blasphemer as Dracula reincorporates into the flesh. When Dracula is completely revived, he boasts Josiah’s foolishness and that Blade’s warnings were well warrented.
When the people of the church realize what Dracula truly is, everyone in attendance draw crucifix’s upon him and begin to rush him. With Blade and the other vampire hunters trying to fight through the crowd, Dracula manages to take advantage of the chaos to turn into his mist form and escape the religious symbols that are causing him pain. In a fury, Dracula summons down a lightening storm, frightening all the revival attendees. Still believing the power of God can help him stop Dracula, Josiah Dawn approaches Dracula with a large crucifix.
Although in pain, Dracula mocks Josiah and his faith, causing the reverend to falter just enough for Dracula to call down a bolt of lightening that strikes and destroys the crucifix. With Josiah dying from the lightning strike, Dracula mocks the priests attempts to try and kill him, and finding his own death in return. Boasting further that he couldn’t possibly kill someone who is undead, while he is now dying, never to return. In his dying breath, Josiah still remains true to his faith, telling the vampire lord that his immortal soul will live on long after Dracula is destroyed.
Angered, Dracula snarls that he will win over all, and transforms into his bat form and flies away, leaving the corpse of Reverend Dawn behind.
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“The Return of the Living Mummy!” / IL RITORNO DELLA MUMMIA VIVENTE ! (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- Living Mummy (N’Kantu)
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- Nephrus (Only in flashback)
- Carroll Harter (museum curator)
Locations:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
The Mummy wanders the streets of New York. He rests briefly in Central Park, until he finds two young thugs hassling a woman. The Mummy approaches them, but the thugs (as well as the woman) flee in terror. N’Kantu has no idea why they are so scared of him.
The two punks run into a police officer and explain what they had just seen. The officer radios the incident into headquarters and drives on to investigate.
Several squad cars converge on the scene and open fire on the Mummy. Several bullets strike a nearby vehicle, causing it to explode. In the midst of the explosion, the Mummy takes the opportunity to escape down a back alley.
