Giant-Size Dracula 1974 #4 - back issue - $6.00
An aging actor offers to "sell his soul" for the chance to be young again and woo the beautiful young girl of his eye. No sooner does he utter the words, than a mysterious man appears at his door offering him a jug of water he claims is from the fountain of youth. He says he will claim payment...later...and vanishes. The actor is doubtful it could actually work, but drinks from the jug anyway and finds to his surprise that he is a young man once again.
A man discovers a race of creatures that come up from below ground that the African natives base their wood carvings upon. Since they keep their presence secret, the man worries they mean humanity harm, but everyone he speaks to refuses to believe his fantastic tale. Finally, an African expert agrees to listen to his story, but convinces the man he is imagining things. After he leaves the expert's office, the expert is shown removing a rubber mask revealing him as one of the gargoyles.
A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armour and living stone gargoyles.
Breaking the fourth wall a vampire addresses the reader, his intended victim. He tells how he first encountered his victim-to-be when he asked for help and was rebuffed. The vampire followed the reader, discovering where he lived and what comics he liked to buy. He spent considerable money printing up a custom copy of Adventures into Terror to place on the newsstand. The last panel of the story shows the vampire with claws extended and fangs bared - daring you to look over your shoulder.
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #113, December 1974.
- Let It Bleed! - Date: 1936.
- Memos and Meanderings from Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers! - Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, house ad for the Mighty Marvel Comicon.
- Forbidden Drink - Formerly cited as from Adventures into Terror #4
- I Am the Living Ghost! - Narrated in the first person by one of the animated beings.
- You Can't Escape - Possible Molno pencils and Alascia inks per Nick Caputo.
- - Letters from Dan Scontras and Bob Rodi.
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