Doctor Strange #61 (1983) CGC 9.6 NM+ WP Dracula Blade Darkhold 3975751008|

Doctor Strange
#61
(1983)
Dracula cover
Blade, Hannibal King, Frank Drake
Darkhold story
pre Nightstalkers #1 gathering of Nightsalkers team
Off White/White pages
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The Darkholders spy on the Sanctum Sanctorum hoping to follow Doctor Strange to where he hid the Darkhold. Anticpating this, Strange sends a disguised Sara Wolfe and Morgana Blessing out as decoys, helping him get away to reconvene with Wong and Hannibal King, who has also recruited vampire hunters Frank Drake and Blade to their party. The five men travel to Europe and Castle Mordo as covertly as possible, fighting past the mystic defenses the castle's departed master left behind to repel just such invaders. Meanwhile, Dracula stands in the sun, mocking it as his usage of the Darkholders' black arts has eliminated almost all the weaknesses his vampiric curse once burdened him with. Strengthened by the cultists' ritual, he telepathically contacts his servants around the globe to find where Strange has fled, then hijacks a series of jets to chase him there.