Dracula in popular culture Melford was the director, and it starred Carlos Villarías as the Count, Eduardo Arozamena as Van Helsing and Lupita Tovar as Eva. Because of America's movie industry censorship policies, Melford's "Dracula" contains scenes that could not be included in the final cut of the more familiar English version. It is also included on the Universal Legacy DVD. The Universal Studios horror films made Dracula a household name by starring him as a villain in a number of movies, including several where he met other monsters (the most famous being the comedy "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", in which Lugosi played
Dracula (Marvel Comics) and beings from established literary works. Later that year Morbius appeared in Spider-Man for the first time, and Dracula followed in his own title some months later. The character starred in the comic, which ended with issue #70 in 1979. This version of Dracula also starred in "Dracula Lives!", a black-and-white horror comic magazine series published by Marvel from 1973 to 1975. Running concurrently with "Tomb of Dracula", the continuities of the two titles occasionally overlapped, with storylines weaving between the two. Although Dracula (and all other vampires) were eventually destroyed by the mystical "Montesi Formula" in the pages of