In 1972, Marvel Comics introduced the world to a new take on a classic horror icon in the form of Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Stan Lee, and Gene Colan’s Tomb of Dracula #1. For seven years, the original series’ run pushed the bounds of what comic and horror fans alike understood about the most infamous vampire of all time.
Although the original run of Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula ended in 1979, its story was retold in an entirely new format courtesy of Toei Animation studio. This came in the form of 1980’s Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (Yami no Teiō: Kyūketsuki Dorakyura), which first aired on TV Asahi on August 19. And, while this production was something of a cult hit in Japan, the North American audiences who were most intimately familiar with the source material wouldn’t see it for themselves for another three years.
The anime adaptation of Tomb of Dracula wasn’t born of any innate desire on Teoi’s part to develop an anime adaptation of a popular comic book, but rather of Marvel’s desire to expand their own audience. As such, testing a new market with a proven title was an easy enough choice to make, and Toei’s track record and reputation made them the perfect studio to take on the task. Of course, there was never any way that Toei or anyone else could fit seventy-issues and dozens of characters worth of content into a single film, so it fell on writer Tadaaki Yamazaki to sift through years of lore and pin down exactly what aspects of the original story would make their way into Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned.
In 1972, Marvel Comics introduced the world to a new take on a classic horror icon in the form of Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Stan Lee, and Gene Colan’s Tomb of Dracula #1. For seven years, the original series’ run pushed the bounds of what comic and horror fans alike understood about the most infamous vampire of all time.
Although the original run of Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula ended in 1979, its story was retold in an entirely new format courtesy of Toei Animation studio. This came in the form of 1980’s Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned (Yami no Teiō: Kyūketsuki Dorakyura), which first aired on TV Asahi on August 19. And, while this production was something of a cult hit in Japan, the North American audiences who were most intimately familiar with the source material wouldn’t see it for themselves for another three years.
The anime adaptation of Tomb of Dracula wasn’t born of any innate desire on Teoi’s part to develop an anime adaptation of a popular comic book, but rather of Marvel’s desire to expand their own audience. As such, testing a new market with a proven title was an easy enough choice to make, and Toei’s track record and reputation made them the perfect studio to take on the task. Of course, there was never any way that Toei or anyone else could fit seventy-issues and dozens of characters worth of content into a single film, so it fell on writer Tadaaki Yamazaki to sift through years of lore and pin down exactly what aspects of the original story would make their way into Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned.
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