Back in, the only thing I can call it is the "late-mid-seventies," a comic book company (and I don't remember which one) started a series of thick comics called Dracula Lives! They were all about the Count, from his "young" vampiric existence as Vlad Tepes, to his wonderings in 1890's London to today.
There was a fan-mail section and they published the full names and addresses of the writers. One of mine was published! I was so proud.
The comic book was of high quality with excellent stories and art work. It also brought controversy. One story dealt with the modern times in the Vatican where a priest is an exorcist who knows a prayer to dispatch vampires. Dracula hunts him down throughout the Vatican, impressed by the art (and here's what was controversial: he said he can't believe that such "religious fanatics" could produce it), but hindered by the many crosses, crucifixes and relics wherever he turns. He finally corners the priest and starts to kill him, the priest too weak to say the prayer. But before he dies, he informs Dracula that he has sent a copy to the grandson of Van Helsing who still hunts the vampire.
Dracula Lives! started a serialization of Stoker's novel and the artwork was, again impeccable. And then the company announced that the comic book would cease publication; not enough people were buying it. The serialization would continue in another one (and I don't remember the name) also published by the company. I bought them. And then, in a couple months, it also ceased publication.
Gerard