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EL LA peers at you from the ay to brand HfrM*r##irU.li1 rwwJFWMirrwWBWT your car, motorcycle or the window of your roor te your clear plastic raincoat or terrarium. !~ teen the clear sheets of your notebook divider sibilities are as limitless as your imagination. And for those of vou with a yen for VAMPIRELLA that just doesn't :ial offer. Order oi 's a bargaii. ... i of your hand. Order your VAMPIRELLA sticker i for only $1. Order your VAMPIRELLA sticker now! Fill out this c and mail it, along with your check or money order, to CAPTAIN COMPANY P.O. Box 430, Murray Hill Station New York, N.Y. 10016 Rush me one 9-inc h full-color VAMPIRELLA //I sticker. Enclosed is 99C. t/n D Rush me three 9-inch full-coloi VAMPIRELLA stickers, Enclosed is SI. 9B... 3 for the price of 2! NflMF AnnBF'j'i KTATF U Ulll I I HI I I U SEPTEMBER "l 975 VAMPI'S SCARLET LETTERS OUR COVER "The real VAMPIRELLA lives and breathes There's max than ant wir to say VAM- again! She said it herself," rave pleased fans. PIRE LLA. Our cnai Isilurai three of ihom. fantastic paintings hv Saniulian, Enrich "No more Sun Gods or Nameless Ravishers!' and J i is i! Gonzalez. VAMPIRELLA has returned to the real world. Editor-in-Chief An old writer's fresh approach worked." & Publisher JAMES WARREN VAMPIRELLA: BLOOD WAGER Pendragon dying- Delirious. Remembering. Back to earlier, happier days. He, VAMPI, Conrad, Adam. Together against the forces of Chaos. Easier enemies than a life drain- ing assassin's bullet and New York's police! GLASTONBURY TOR BertranC Swann was a scholar. He'd journeyed to the ancient abbey of Glastonbury Tor. And had ENRICH learned its secrets. His prize was a bride, JOSE GONZALEZ a King's fortune and immortality. Death was FRANK FRAZETTA his impotent enemy. But Swann wanted more? SANJULIAN Artists This Issue JAIMIS Fantasy. Dreams. The concrete LUIS GARCIA __ ESTEBAN MAROTO world you can reach out and touch. Who can GONZALO MAYO say which way reality lies? Life and love ISIDRO MONES should never have plagued the statue made JOSE ORTIZ of stone. But neither should the dreadful RAMON TORRENTS monsters that roamed the storm-swept oce Writers This Issue GERRY BOUDREAU BUDD LEWIS A HERO BORN OF WISHES LEN WEIN More taxes. More rape. More pillage. More death. This is how the villagers' prayers »»»«•—«««« w*™*i™»*w*»'« I for deliverance were .J PUBLISHING CO I.OIK.IHIA SUBSr.KHTlON «. IHJSINESS OFFICES * oppressor prospered = 145 EAST 32nd STREET. N.V. 10016. TEL PHONE: (212) 683-6050. ed them. So, they turned to the devil! WINTER OF DISCONTENT War, horror story i A unmatched by anything OFFICES. ENTIRE except perhaps . plague, the bloody reap- 1 er of the fruits of war. A man might valorous- WORLD CONVENT ly win battles. But how can he return a hero RIGHT CONVENTION. AND THE PAN A~icm- when only the dead remain to greet him? CANCOPYRIGHTCONVENTION.VAMPIRELLA '. 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If he had drawn and us- RELLA S43 in my sweaty little of your new VAMPIRELLA ed them properly, I have palms. script writer, he appeared. founo the VAMPI sto- The cover was not the most And what an appearance! The ry in issue tf43 much more auspicious debut for Ribas. series suddenly has depth, tf43 was absolutely the realistic. As it was, I Issue felt an- From a distance, the maga- substance. I'm just delighted best issue of VAMPIRELLA noyed. zine is almost invisible. It with VAMPI and the way she in the entire year. A new On page ten, Adam is shown would be unfair, however, to is now being handled. writer took over the chore of loading a German Mauser judge him by a single paint- The untitled premiere story scriptingVAMPI's adventures, from the top. Wrong! The ing. Perhaps future works was delicious. Returning the and suddenly the strip is well- Mauser is clip loaded, like a wiTl put him in the same class Van Helsings was a great plotted, believable and real- -45 c liber. with Enrich, Ken Kelly and move. Adam is the guy for istic. And the art, as usual, On page eleven, Raven Sanjulian. I perfect. VAMPI. was pretty tired of was brags to Sara about what a The VAMPIRELLA episode seeing her play the flirt. I had I especially enjoyed Adam professional assassin he is. hoped she would eventually Van Helsing's attitude toward But this month was not only every- he's going to find it pret- get back together with recent thing I had hoped for, it was her VAMPI's adventures ty hard to load his .38 with ...her "ritzy European more. Over the past two years, old lover. And now she has! the bullet he's holding if he the series has been variously The shooting of VAMPI and (aunts!" I doesn't open the cylinder. Now that VAMPIRELLA excellent and terrible. But Pendragon was dynamic. A On page fifteen, Raven kills move in seems to be on the right track, this month, for the first time the right direction a guard outside the hospital introducing need- I some much I'd like to request rematches in ages, was actually en- . and no silencer was drawn ed realism into . the with the Cobra Queen, Dra- grossed . despite the fact VAMPI- onto his gun. On page seven- RELLA strip. I've cula and the Cult of Chaos. that VAMPI herself had little nothing teen, Raven guns down Con- against to do. Some, I suppose, will sun-gods and Ama- rad Van R.ZIMMERMAN Helsing, and again, criticize the story on the zons... in fact, the world of the noise of a .38 being fired grounds that too much space the supernatural made VAM- in a quiet hospital j Chaos is back this issue should be was used to rehash past PIRELLA what it is today. But In it enough to cave the roof in. It too twenty-one page confron- events. But I'll bet .at least much of that stuff and you looks like Raven isn't tation with our Rirl from Dra- the half the readers of this issue begin talking to goldfish, ya' "pro" he claimed was. kulon. It's a very special tale he were not reading the maga- know? A delicate balance is scripted by Len Wein, illus- zine two years ago. For them needed here and VAMPI's trated by the incomparable it was all new. new author seems to be the Gonzalo Mayo! It marked what was, in ef- man to restore it! "The Wolves at War's End" fect, almost a new beginning I loved Adam's explanation The scripting reins of VAM- stands out as another well for the series. Was that the of our girl from Drakulon and PIRELLA again reside in com- crafted Budd Lewis tale. significance of the fact that her powers, too. It was a per- petent hands, and the long On the other hand, Ramon the episode was titled simply fect way to get back to basics missing beauty has returned Torrents' always impressive VAMPIRELLA? . whoVAMPIRELLA is. where to I she's been, where she's go- the VAMPI strip art saved •'The Easter Bunny Until read the story, I was ing. All this With my faith in Warren Murders." Gerry Boudreau not quite resigned to the re- seemed lost in the Publishing introduction of issues scripted by Flaxman restored I will took an imaginative premise Adam Van Loew. He was a fine writer now continue ..