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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.
corriere della paura
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DRACULA
EDITORIALE CORNO
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1976
nelle storie di questo numero la insaziabile sanguisuga rumena è affiancata
dal selvatico e ispido LICANTROPUS / WEREWOLF BY NIGHT con cui si
azzuffa regolarmente disputandosi le prede proprio come si accapigliano i
tossici litigandosi l’ ultima dose di roba, le battone il cliente più generoso o i politici la tangente più cospicua
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 ) , 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, LIEVE MARCA DI PIEGA VERTICALE E STRAPPETTO RICOMPOSTO NEL BORDO DESTRO DI COPERTINA, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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“Death Rides The Rails!” / LA MORTE SI AVVICINA !
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Lucas Brand
- Jack Russell / Werewolf (Cameo)
- Henri Verne
- Gerta Verne
- Granet
- Gruber
Locations:
- Paris
- Versailles
- Munchen
- Graz
- North Ireland
- Oradea
Synopsis
Having spent time in Paris, France, Dracula returns to the secret
location of one of his coffins lined with Transylvanian earth so that he
can rest for the night. However, he arrives to find that this secret
location, like many of his other coffins have been destroyed. Needing to
find a coffin lined with dirt from his homeland in order to rest for
the night Dracula becomes furious. He is then attacked by Blade the
vampire hunter, who is the one responsible for these coffin
destructions. Blade attempts to once more slay Dracula. Dracula manages
to overpower Blade, and feed upon the vampire hunter before leaving him
for dead.
Dracula would flee into the night to the location of a fifth
coffin, unknown to the vampire hunters, hidden in the farm house of
Henri Verne, one of Dracula’s enslaved humans and his wife Gerta.
The following night, Dracula begins his travels back to
Transylvania, deciding this time to return home by boarding a train in
Germany. After resting aboard the train, Dracula would then order the
conductor to not let anyone into his quarters and would then leave to
find a fresh victim to feed upon. Also aboard the train are Frank Drake
and Rachel van Helsing, who have deduced that Dracula is aboard the
train and are waiting for him to strike so that they might destroy him.
Also aboard the train is a man name Gruber and his bodyguard Granet.
Gruber has something very important inside a briefcase and has fear that
their enemy is aboard the train and may claim it. However, despite this
worry, Gruber sends Granet out to get him a drink. Dracula is walking
through the train looking for a drink as well, he passes by the young
Jack Russell, who is going to Transylvania for his own reasons, both
unaware that fate will have their paths cross in the near future.
While back in Ireland, Lucas Brand is set upon some of Dr. Sun’s
best warriors, whom Brand is easily able to defeat. Convinced that Brand
is of value to him, Dr. Sun welcomes him as part of their organization.
Back aboard the Transylvania bound train, Dracula finds a young
mother travelling out with her son. Seducing the mother, Dracula leads
he back to his quarters alone and feeds upon her. Her screams bring the
attention of Drake, van Helsing as well as Gruber and Granet. Dracula
manages to flee the area in his mist form before Frank and Rachel arrive
and find that the woman is not dead, nor had Dracula fed on her enough
to cause her to change into a vampire.
Dracula returns to his room where he curses his mistake, but he
is soon interrupted by the arrival of Gruber and Granet who followed
Dracula back to his room. Tricking the vampire lord into opening the
door by posing as the porter, Granet attempts to kill Dracula by
shooting him with a gun. Dracula laughs off this pathetic attack and
easily knocks Granet aside. Thinking that Granet and Gruber are in
league with Quincy Harker, Dracula kills Granet by throwing him from the
train before he can explain who he really works for, while Gerber flees
the scene.
Dracula follows after him, but is delayed when he runs into and
has to fight past Frank Drake and Rachel van Helsing. He easily manages
to get past the two vampire hunters in the tight quarters of the train.
He tells them that he will meet them again at Castle Dracula, where he
will see to their doom. Finding Gruber, Gruber warns Dracula to stay
away as he is charged with protecting his masters important documents.
Not understanding what Gruber is babbling about, he scoffs at the
importance a mere mortals paperwork would have to a vampire. Upon
hearing that Dracula is a vampire, Gruber fearfully smashes out a window
to his own death. Before Dracula can make sense of what has happened,
Rachel appears with a cross bow and attempts once more to stake Dracula.
Dracula flees the scene before she can hit her target. Flying off into
the Romanian sky, Dracula flees the scene.
Back down the line, the body of Gerber is found by an agent of
Dr. Sun who retrieves the case that Gerber protected so dearly.
Reporting back to his master, this agent of Dr. Sun informs the
mysterious man that he has succeeded in his mission.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Gregory Russoff (Only in flashback)
- Lydia Russell (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Transylvania
- Paris
Items:
Synopsis
Jack Russell and his lover Topaz are on their way to Transylvania in
the hopes that there they can find a cure for Jack’s werewolf curse.
They are completely unaware that fate has intended that they cross paths
with Dracula, lord of the vampires, who has returned to Transylvania
that very night after an extended stay in London. Dracula has just
returned to his castle where he looks upon old paintings of himself and
his long dead wife Maria and reflects over the events that found him
transformed into a vampire.
Meanwhile, in catacombs beneath Paris, Quincy Harker comes across
the body of Blade the vampire hunter. Seeing that Blade has been bitten
by Dracula, and assuming his ally to be dead, Quincy Harker gets a
stake out and prepares to ram it through Blade’s heart.
While back in Transylvania, Jack and Topaz stop at the Olde Boot
Inn to get rooms for the night. There Topaz is approached by a drunk man
named Scratcher, who makes a sloppy pass at the girl. Scratcher gets a
punch in the mouth from Jack for his trouble, and although he doesn’t
cause anymore trouble, he vows to get revenge against Jack for that hit.
In their rooms, Jack warns Topaz to lock up tight because there will be
a full moon and Jack will transform into the Werewolf. Topaz tries to
reassure Jack that she can control him like she did last time.
Scratcher, meanwhile decides to go up into the room and try and stab
Jack. Entering Topaz’s room he is horrified to find that Jack has
transformed into the Werewolf.
The Werewolf attacks Scratcher, knocking him down into the bar
below, and beats the man out of the bar. With Scratcher dead, Topaz
arrives and convinces the Werewolf that they must leave before someone
finds out that they killed the sailor. They are then confronted by
Dracula, who has witnessed the fight. When Dracula attempts to feed on
Topaz, he finds that looking into her eyes causes him great pain. Trying
to get her to stop looking at him prompts the Werewolf to attack
Dracula. The vampire king easily tosses the beast aside, but finds that
Topaz’s gaze is too strong and flees the scene to find a fresh victim
elsewhere.
The next day, Jack (back in human form) and Topaz travel to
Russoff manor where they go looking for clues on how to cure himself of
the werewolf curse. He reflects back on how his father was similarly
cursed and killed by a mob firing silver bullets. They find a locked
diary, and when they move it’s page marker, they set off a mechanism
that opens a secret passage way behind a bookshelf. Following the
passage they find it leads to a cavern tunnel that opens up in front of
Castle Dracula. Noting a telescope, Jack realizes that his father had an
observational interest in the home of Dracula, and is determined to
investigate it.
That night when Dracula rises, he finishes his preparation of
coffins to be shipped out to new hideouts in London. Furious at having
to constantly hide from humanity, Dracula vows to no longer do so an
openly wage war against humanity. Spotting Jack Russell and Topaz coming
toward his castle, Dracula sweeps down to attack. Just then the full
moon rises causing Jack to transform into the Werewolf once again. This
however, does not stop Dracula from taking Topaz and flying her into his
castle. Inside, Dracula demands to know how Topaz’s powers work,
however the girl can provide him with no answers as she knows not how
they work either.
Just then the enraged Werewolf bursts in and attacks Dracula, as
the two battle Topaz attempts to stop the fight when Dracula gains the
upper hand. Dracula swats the girl away and then prepares to feast upon
the Werewolf.
Notes
This story is continued in Werewolf by Night #15…(in this next italian issue)
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“Power Times Four!” / POTENZA QUADRUPLICATA (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Dann (Appears in flashback)
- Garrett (Appears in flashback)
Locations:
- Egypt
- An unnamed alien dimension
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
The Elementals make the mummy their slave and teleport him
back to earth to destroy a scarlet scarab– an ancient weapon of magic
capable of destroying them.
