Dracula in popular culture Balderston (see below); it starred Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing, both of whom had originated their respective roles on the stage in the aforementioned play, along with Helen Chandler as Mina and Dwight Frye as Renfield. Directed by Tod Browning, it is one of the most famous versions of the story and is widely credited with initiating the Universal horror film series of the 1930s and ‘40s. The 1931 Dracula film was an inductee of the 2000 National Film Registry list. The films had music only during the opening (the famous main theme from
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