Marv Wolfman returns to Marvel for TOMB OF DRACULA What If...? one-shot

Writer Marv Wolfman is a legend of the superhero comics trade, having written practically each main superhero of the course of his fifty-year profession. Now the author of sequence like New Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earths is returning to the writer the place his profession began as Marvel Comics has introduced Wolfman will pen an upcoming What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula one-shot. Wolfman shall be joined by artists David Cutler and Scott Hanna for the difficulty, which can sport a canopy by Giuseppe Camuncoli. ArtGerm will present a variant for the difficulty.

Here’s how Marvel describes What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1:

Wolfman redefined comedian e book horror storytelling in his groundbreaking run of THE TOMB OF DRACULA, the place he launched Dracula to the Marvel Universe and co-created Blade and the daughter of Dracula, Lilith Drake. Now, a long time later, he’ll revisit his mythology-molding work with a brand new WHAT IF…? story that asks the query, “WHAT IF…the legendary Dracula transformed Blade the vampire slayer…into a vampire?!”

In an announcement asserting the brand new one-shot, Wolfman described the sensation of returning to the characters he received his begin on:

“In 1972 I was a fledgling comics writer who mostly wrote short 2 to 8 page ‘monster’ stories when Editor Roy Thomas asked if I’d like to write Tomb of Dracula, my very first series for Marvel, and the book that would jump-start my career,” Wolfman recollected. “So it’s a actual thrill now that 50-plus years later Marvel requested me to as soon as once more dive into that pool with this very particular What If…? story, and to deliver again that nice forged of characters that artist Gene Colan and I created so a few years in the past. Thank you, Marvel, for giving me the possibility to play with previous buddies one final time.“

“One last time”? You make it sound so remaining, Marv.

Marvel govt editor Nick Lowe additionally weighed in on Wolfman’s return:

“Getting Marv back on TOMB OF DRACULA is a bucket list check-off,” says Exec. Editor Nick Lowe. “He hasn’t lost a step and the opportunity to pair him with David Cutler and Scott Hanna to make a story that’s both love letter and one of the scariest and creepiest and NEW vampire stories I’ve read made it all the better!”

Check out ArtGerm’s variant cowl for the difficulty under. What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1 is due out in shops and digitally on Wednesday, November eighth.