Bram Stoker most famous novel. Stoker enjoyed the United States, where Irving was popular. With Irving he was invited twice to the White House, and knew William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Stoker set two of his novels there, using Americans as characters, the most notable being Quincey Morris. He also met one of his literary idols, Walt Whitman. Stoker visited the English coastal town of Whitby in 1890, and that visit was said to be part of the inspiration for "Dracula". He began writing novels while working as manager for Henry Irving and secretary and director of London's Lyceum Theatre, beginning with
The Tomb of Dracula the two titles occasionally overlapped, with storylines weaving between the two. Most of the time the stories in "Dracula Lives!" were stand-alone tales, including a serialized adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, in 10- to 12-page installments written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Dick Giordano. "Tomb of Dracula" was supplemented by a "Giant-Size" companion quarterly that ran for five issues in the mid-1970s. Artist John Byrne’s first story for Marvel Comics, "Dark Asylum", was published in "Giant-Size Dracula" #5 (June 1975). The color title "Tomb of Dracula" was succeeded by another black-and-white magazine, also called "Tomb of Dracula",