After many issues in a row featuring covers by Luis Dominguez(and Drac chasing that same woman, month after month) Marvel tapped Steve Fabian to do this cover painting. Not as sharp as Dominguez's work, but this is about as iconic as you can get.The opening story is Part 2 of "The Pit of Death" by Doug Moench and Tony DeZuniga, where we find our protagonist(who is determined to get revenger on the Count for killing his wife) realizing that said wife has returned from the dead!
Next is "The Vampire of Mednegna" by Moench and Win Mortimer, a quickie story(only two pages!). The story is pretty well undone by Mortimer's stiff and sloppy work--jeez, he only had two pages to do, he couldn'tve taken his time?
Third is "If Madness Be Thy Master..." the next chapter of the Dracula novel by Roy Thomas and Dick Giordano--as usual, tops.
Last is Lilith in "Nobody Anybody Knows" by Steve Gerber, Bob Brown, Frank Chiaramonte, and Pablo Marcos(whew!). There's a lot of space devoted to Angel O'Hara, Lilith's unaware alter-ego, and her hippie husband, and all their melodramatic goings-on. Like the second tale, the art is very sloppy and looks rushed--I think you can guess this was a last minute job by all the artist's names on the credits.
Not one Dracula Lives!'s best issues; the Thomas/Giordano stuff is of course awesome, and the first story isn't bad, but the rest is not really worthy of bearing the Prince of Darkness' name.
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