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75-430: Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostesses , in which capacity she remained through issue #8 (Nov. 1970), to a horror -drama leading character . The magazine was published continuously until 1983, when Warren Publishing ceased operations and its assets were bought by Harris Publications . Vampirella comics, both new and reprints, have continued through various publishers into

150-454: A Hollywood scream queen. She lives with her live-in boyfriend Tristan and butler Coleridge. After falling into a thousand-year sleep, Vampirella awakes in a bizarre, dystopian future, where she meets her new sidekick and girlfriend, Vicki, and a black cat she names Grit. After going on a journey through her own mind, Vampirella learns she has absorbed all the memories and experiences of a hundred Vampirellas from parallel universes. According to

225-585: A Holy Ghost Vol. 6: The Final Curtain Vampirella: Bites Vol. 2: God Save The Queen Vol. 2: The God You Know Vol. 2: Seduction of the Innocent Vol. 3: Interstellar Vol. 4: Red Mass Vol. 2: The Spoils of War Vol. 3: Ghost Dance Vol. 4: After The Fall Archie Goodwin (comics) Archie Goodwin (September 8, 1937 – March 1, 1998) was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on

300-408: A cameo appearance in a crowd scene on the splash page of Ms. Marvel volume 1 No. 15, (March 1978) with thought balloons showing him trying out various nicknames for himself. Archie appears in a crowd scene on the cover/back cover of DC All New Collectors' Edition #56 " Superman vs. Muhammad Ali " (1978) drawn by Neal Adams and edited by fellow Oklahoman E. Nelson Bridwell . Archie is No. 15 on

375-529: A conspiracy by Dracula and a group of vampire knights that result in reality becoming unraveled. Lilith banishes Vampirella from her universe in order to save her. Vampirella was relaunched with Our Lady Of Shadows as an agent of the Vatican before being relaunched again with a new costume in Hollywood Horror under author Kate Leth. In this universe, Vampirella has recently come to Earth and become

450-536: A creator whose only contribution to the strip that made him rich was his signature. Blackmark is a paperback book (Bantam S5871) published by the American company Bantam Books in January 1971. It is one of the first American graphic novels . It was conceived and drawn by comic book artist Gil Kane , and scripted by Archie Goodwin from an outline by Kane. Goodwin worked briefly for DC Comics during

525-565: A few . In celebration of the character's 55th anniversary, Dynamite wil be counting runs and one shots throughout Vampirella's history to renumber the comic 666 and have the first arc of the renumbering called "Beyond' written by Christopher Priest Priest has been writing Vampirella since 2019 and has officially become the longest writer in Vampirella history has Dynamite marches to 700 issues. On March 2, 2021, Mike The Pike Productions, Inc.'s subsidiary Arowana Media Holdings, Inc. acquired

600-434: A freelance "writer and occasional art assistant" to Leonard Starr 's newspaper comic strip Mary Perkins, On Stage . His first editorial work was for Redbook magazine from 1960 to 1964, on which he worked both before and after his Army service as a draftee. He also did cartoons for Fishing World magazine in 1959. "Comics writing is similar in form to writing a movie script or a play," Goodwin said in an article for

675-919: A good deal of recognition in the industry, including both the 1973 Shazam Award for Best Writer (Dramatic Division), and the 1974 Shazam Award for Best Writer (Dramatic Division) for the Manhunter series running in Detective Comics #437–443. In the same years, he also won Shazam Awards for Best Individual Short Story for "The Himalayan Incident" in Detective Comics No. 437 and for "Cathedral Perilous" in Detective Comics No. 441. In 1974, he also won Best Individual Feature-Length Story for "Götterdämmerung" in Detective Comics No. 443. All story awards were shared with Walt Simonson for Manhunter episodes). Goodwin's work on Manhunter , in which he both updated an obscure Golden Age hero, and, in

750-867: A highlight in my career. It is something that I may never be able to top in a lot of ways. To have done that and for DC to have given me the opportunity to do that was great." In 1980, he shared the Eagle Award for Favorite Comic Magazine given to Epic Illustrated . In 1982, he received the Inkpot Award given by San Diego Comic-Con . He threepeated winning the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material given to Epic's collected Moebius albums in 1988, for Epic's Moebius series The Incal in 1989 and in 1990 for Best Foreign Reprint given to Epic's Akira series. He won " Bob Clampett Humanitarian " Eisner Award in 1992. In 1993, he won

825-513: A little 'hello' to one of my favorite New Yorkers." In Marvel Comics', What The--?! No. 5, (July 1989) Goodwin appears as King Archibald the First in the short story The Alien-Ated Legion, which parodies the mature approach of Epic Comics. In the last panels, King Archibald says that he had never been interested in superhero comics. The airport in fictional Gotham City , home of the Batman ,

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900-435: A number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He

975-524: A plot by the Vatican that ultimately resurrects Von Kreist and leads to Sofia's death. Vampirella severs her ties with the Vatican and finds herself working for the forces of Order again. Reuniting with a resurrected Van Helsing, Pendragon, and other characters from the Warren Magazine run, Vampirella visits the future and discovers the world destroyed by the supernatural. Trying to form a supernatural kingdom to contradict this, Vampirella falls prey to

1050-517: A serialized story from Harris' Vampirella #1–4. The 1994 Cain / Vampirella Flip Book reprinted a 1993 Vampirella story by writer Busiek and artist Arthur Adams from Harris' Creepy 1993 Fearbook . The five-issue Vampirella Classic (Feb.–Nov. 1995) reprinted Warren stories. Vengeance of Vampirella: Bloodshed (March 1995) reprinted a serialized story from the Vengeance of Vampirella series. The publisher additionally reprinted Warren stories in

1125-472: A short stint as editor in 1974. Archie Goodwin's first prose story was published by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , which warned him he could not use Archie Goodwin as a pen name because it was a Rex Stout character in the Nero Wolfe books. According to Goodwin's wife Anne T. Murphy, the magazine's editors "then were so delighted when he wrote back to say that it was his real name that they used

1200-500: Is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant and is shown to be skilled with modern-day firearms. Christopher Priest's world of Vampirella has been expanded in spinoffs. The first is Sacred Six (2020), which follows Lilith, Vampirella's mother, protecting a vampire city with a team consisting of Nyx, Chastity , Pantha, Victory (who takes on the name Draculina), and Katie (the real Draculina). Solo series were published for Nyx (2021), Pantha (2022), and Draculina (2022). A solo series for Victory

1275-629: Is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever." Archie Goodwin was born in Kansas City, Missouri , and lived in many small towns along the Kansas-Missouri border including Coffeyville, Kansas . He considered Tulsa, Oklahoma as his home town. There he spent his teen years at Will Rogers High School and in used magazine stores searching for EC Comics . and contributor to EC fanzines in

1350-478: Is an American sixty-four-page graphic novel adaptation of the 1979 science fiction film Alien published by Heavy Metal magazine in 1979. It was scripted by Archie Goodwin and drawn by Walt Simonson . The book was a major critical and commercial success and was the first comic to ever be listed on the New York Times Bestsellers list. While developing the comic, Goodwin worked from

1425-433: Is because he used to be my boss and I didn't know how he'd feel about coming back and me being his boss." Goodwin was at the time still working for Marvel as a writer, and Shooter recalls concocting a plan whereby the company "pretended that Archie reported to Stan. In fact, I was doing all the paperwork and all the employee reviews and the budgets" so that Goodwin could have the illusion of not working for his successor. In

1500-666: Is named the Archie Goodwin International Airport. The airport made its first appearance in Batman No. 34 (April 1946) and remained unnamed until it was given a name on a Gotham City map made for the Batman: No Man's Land crossover event in 1999. In the first DC Comics spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series called The Batman Adventures No. 30 (March 1995) Goodwin appears as Mr. Nice, a super-strong but childishly-innocent super-villain. He

1575-421: Is one of a screwball trio of incompetent super-villains that includes The Mastermind (a caricature of Mike Carlin ) and The Professor (a caricature of Dennis O'Neil ). In Batman: Gotham Adventures No. 13 (June 1999) features the last appearance of the characters with Mr. Nice leaving the group to fulfill a prophecy, with the issue being dedicated to Archie Goodwin. Indicia (publishing) Indicia , from

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1650-465: The Hack/Slash series, Vampirella currently works as a radio talk show host and has several times teamed up with Cassie and her partner Vlad to stop demons and vampires instead of the standard slashers the series is known for. She and Vlad have an intense physical attraction and relationship, but broke up because his nomadic lifestyle did not mesh with hers. In the 2019 version by Christopher Priest,

1725-553: The Tulsa Tribune , December 17, 1986. "I write a description of the panel (stage setting), and then the captions (dialogue)," he said. "Since I have some art background, I might do a series of thumbnail drawings before I write anything. Comics writings is like any other kind of writing. You draw on everything that's around you. Watching people on the street, eavesdropping in restaurants – sooner or later, you're going to use all of that." His first story written before he went into

1800-809: The Wizard Fan Award with Denny O'Neil , Joe Quesada and Kevin Nowlan for the Favorite Miniseries for Batman: Sword of Azrael . He was named Best Editor by the Eisners in 1993. As well as receiving the UK Comic Art Award for Best Graphic Novel with Scott Hampton for Batman: Night Cries. 1997 brought more Harvey Awards to Archie by winning Best Domestic Reprint Project, with Bob Kahan, for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 10th Anniversary Edition Hardcover. Archie

1875-468: The indicia 's copyright information) (1992), by writer Steve Englehart and penciler Joe Brozowski (under the pseudonym J. J. Birch), Vampirella/Shadowhawk: Creatures of the Night (Feb. 1995), Vampirella Pin-Up Special (Oct. 1995), and Vengeance of Vampirella: The Mystery Walk (Nov. 1995). Harris also published many reprints. The 1993 trade-paperback collection Vampirella: The Dracula War reprinted

1950-671: The 1970s, where he edited the war comics G.I. Combat , Our Fighting Forces , and Star Spangled War Stories , and replaced Julius Schwartz as editor of Detective Comics for one year. Goodwin's collaboration with Walt Simonson on the "Manhunter" back-up feature in Detective Comics won several awards . Goodwin also wrote the Batman lead feature in Detective Comics , where his collaborators included artists Jim Aparo , Sal Amendola , Howard Chaykin , and Alex Toth . Goodwin first worked for Marvel Comics in 1968 and

2025-540: The 1990s, Goodwin edited a number of Batman projects, including the Elseworlds miniseries Batman: Thrillkiller , and the Alan Grant -written/ Kevin O'Neill -illustrated parody one-shot Batman: Mitefall , a take-off of the " Knightfall " saga, filtered through the character of Bat-Mite . Armageddon 2001 was a 1991 crossover event storyline. It ran through a self-titled, two issue limited series and most of

2100-729: The 21st century. Vampirella initially appeared in Warren Publishing 's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Vampirella #1 (Sept. 1969), running to issue #112 (March 1983), plus a 1972 annual reprinting stories from the series, and a 1977 special with color reprints of José González stories. The title was a sister magazine of Warren's horror anthologies Creepy and Eerie . Like those magazines' respective mascots, Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie , Vampirella hosted horror stories, though unlike them, she would also star in her own story, which would headline each issue. Vampirella

2175-652: The 50s. His classmates at Will Rogers included illustrator Paul Davis and Broomhilda creator Russell Myers forming a cartoonist's club that met daily at the Owl Drugstore at 11th Street and Pittsburg in Tulsa. After one year at the University of Oklahoma , Goodwin moved to New York City to attend classes at what became the School of Visual Arts . Goodwin began as an artist drawing cartoons for magazines and as

2250-521: The Army was drawn by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel and published in 1962 just after his discharge from the Army. He was never on staff at Harvey Comics. By 1964 he was the main script writer for Warren 's Creepy magazine. Much of his work there, according to Batman editor Mark Chiarello, was a "homage to the favorite comics of his youth, the E.C. line ." By the second issue he was co-credited (alongside Russ Jones) as editor, and soon became editor of

2325-785: The Dark Knight and Azrael . Goodwin's Creepy work is cited by editor Mark Chiarello as informing the creation of the Batman: Black & White series. In the Spring of 1990 he was diagnosed as having cancer and undertook a course of chemo-therapy while still working at DC. Goodwin died on March 1, 1998, after battling the disease for 8 years. The Archie Goodwin Archive and Collection are housed at OKPOP (Oklahoma Museum of Pop Culture) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Donated by his children Jennifer and Seth Goodwin. Goodwin's work won him

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2400-640: The Dark Knight Halloween Special No. 1 (Dec. 1993) edited by Goodwin. It is a testament to Goodwin that Loeb has said that Goodwin inspired their portrayal of Gotham police chief Jim Gordon in The Long Halloween and its sequel Batman: Dark Victory , while Robinson (who considered Goodwin both a mentor and close personal friend), continued to list Goodwin as a "Guiding Light" on later issues of Starman published after Goodwin's death. Goodwin edited Batman: Legends of

2475-727: The Gods", "Pantha" and "Fleur". Vampirella herself also appeared in a story with fellow Warren characters Pantha and the Rook in Eerie #94–95, and with most of the Warren characters in a company crossover special in Eerie #130. Upon Warren's bankruptcy shortly afterward, Harris Publications acquired the company assets at auction in August 1983, although legal murkiness and a 1999 lawsuit by Warren publisher James Warren resulted in his reacquisition of

2550-634: The Model when I walked in." Goodwin and artist George Tuska co-created the supervillain the Controller in Iron Man No. 12 (April 1969). Luke Cage , the first African American superhero to star in an eponymous Marvel comic book series, was created by Goodwin and artist John Romita Sr. in June 1972. While briefly writing The Tomb of Dracula series, Goodwin and artist Gene Colan introduced

2625-593: The Scarlet Legion , was released in May 2011 following the main title. The series lasted 38 issues before concluding in January 2014. The title was rebooted in June 2014 with Vampirella vol. 2, #1 by author Nancy Collins. The 2014 series continued with Volume 3 in March 2016, which was noted for giving Vampirella a new costume. A second reboot and fourth relaunch overall, Vampirella vol. 4, began in 2017. The series

2700-603: The anecdote as the introduction to the story, which ran in the July 1962 issue." (It was actually the July 1964 issue.) From 1967 to 1980, Goodwin wrote scripts for King Features Syndicate , including the daily strip Secret Agent X-9 , drawn by Al Williamson and editor Sylvan Byck , as well as working on other strips ghost writing Captain Kate by Hale and Jerry Skelly. He also worked with Williamson on Flash Gordan comics #3-7 published by King Comics in 1966. Star Hawks

2775-569: The annuals DC published that year from May through October. Each participating annual explored potential possible futures for its main characters. The series was written by Goodwin and Dennis O'Neil and drawn by Dan Jurgens . Among Goodwin's most notable last editorial projects were Starman , written by James Robinson and first published by DC in 1994 and DC's Batman: The Long Halloween by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb . Loeb and Sale's first work on Batman appeared in Batman: Legends of

2850-483: The autumn of 1979, Marschall was fired and Goodwin hired as Epic' s editor. Shooter approached Goodwin after the moderate success of the Epic magazine and creator-owned graphic novels to produce a full-fledged line of creator-owned comics, Epic Comics . Goodwin initially balked at the additional workload, and Shooter turned the line over to Al Milgrom before Goodwin ultimately accepted editorship. Goodwin introduced

2925-517: The character from Harris. However, on April 30, 2007, Harris editor Bon Alimagno denied there had been such an arrangement in place and that Fangoria's claim was "not factual". Harris subsequently launched the title Vampirella Quarterly . On March 17, 2010, Dynamite Entertainment acquired the rights to Vampirella from Harris Comics. The publisher started a new ongoing series with Vampirella #1, in November 2010. A new monthly series, Vampirella and

3000-613: The class divisions on board the Nostromo between Ripley and Parker... [T]he characters are a bit more fleshed out..." Heavy Metal published an eight-page teaser for the book in Heavy Metal magazine in vol. 3, No. 1 (May 1979). A second eight-page preview was published in Heavy Metal vol. 3, No. 2 (June 1979). The original 64-page trade paperback was released in June 1979 and distributed by Simon & Schuster . The comic

3075-489: The demonic entity known as Chaos. After relaunching Vampirella with the miniseries Morning In America , written by Kurt Busiek , Harris Comics published the story "Mystery Walk", which revised Vampirella's origin. She learns she is, in fact, the daughter of Lilith , whom popular medieval Jewish lore depicts as the first wife of Adam . Lilith would not submit to Adam and, cast out of Eden by God, spawned demons. She later repented and went to Eden to bear children to fight

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3150-436: The entire Warren line: Creepy , Eerie and Blazing Combat . He worked for Warren between 1964 and 1967, as head writer and Editor-in-Chief, in which roles he is credited with providing a mythology for Warren's classic Vampirella character, as well as penning her most compelling stories. After his departure from Warren in 1967, Goodwin would occasionally contribute stories over the next 15 years and even returned for

3225-596: The evil she had created. Her first attempt was Madek and Magdalene, who turned to evil; Vampirella was her second. Madek and Magdalene brainwashed her into believing she was from Drakulon. Further retcons were presented in Vampirella Lives and in Blood Lust . Drakulon is real, but is a place in Hell. Vampirella was brought to Eden, not born there. It was Lilith, not Madek and Magdalene, who made believe Drakulon

3300-525: The first English translation of Katsuhiro Otomo 's Akira and published English translations of the work of Jean Giraud , a.k.a. Moebius. Archie also gave many writers and artists their first jobs in comic including Todd McFarlane in Coyote #11-14 with his first cover on issue 13. Goodwin returned to DC Comics as an editor and writer in 1989. He wrote the graphic novel Batman: Night Cries painted by Scott Hampton and published in 1992. Throughout

3375-507: The four-issue miniseries Vampirella: Morning in America (Sept. 1991 - April 1992) by writer Kurt Busiek and penciler Louis La Chance. Three ongoing series followed: The three-issue miniseries Vampirella Lives (Dec. 1996 – Feb. 1997) featured writer Warren Ellis and penciler Conner. Additionally, Harris published several one-shots: Vampirella Summer Nights (title per its trademarked cover logo) / Vampirella's Summer Nights (as in

3450-474: The ideas for the New Universe.' What that doesn't take into account is that for about five or six years I've had these half-formed notions and finally here is a situation where they would all fit in. ...it wasn't like I just went into the meeting and suddenly four concepts sprang full-blown from my brow." In 1976, Goodwin replaced Gerry Conway to become the eighth editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, with

3525-482: The key and is sitting in front of the Jackson 5 on the back cover. He is name-checked in issues of Marvel's Star Wars comics including in the alien-language words "Niwdoog Eihcra," his name in reverse. A character based on him appears in issue No. 82 of Cerebus (January 1986). He stands at the foot of the giant, living stone statue Tarim and repeats everything Tarim says – as if he is passing Tarim's commands to

3600-443: The masses. At the end, the annoyed Tarim threatens to kill "anyone pretending to speak for Tarim" when Archie's character looks up and stops repeating Tarim by telling the masses to get to work. The scene has often been interpreted as an allegory for Goodwin's relationship with Jim Shooter , but Cerebus writer/artist Dave Sim denies this and said "I have nothing but the greatest respect for Archie and in no way intended anything but

3675-423: The original script. Simonson, as well, had access to production stills and even saw a rough cut of the film, which helped him capture the essence of the story. As a result, however, a few scenes that were cut from the final film ended up being included in the graphic novel. One reviewer praised Archie Goodwin's script adaptation, which he felt improved on some flaws in the film: "Goodwin... seems to get more into

3750-462: The original writer of that series, Thomas Sniegoski, to write a continuation of the original series. Dynamite has published several other series and one shots featuring Vampirella, including but not limited to Die!namite (2020) , Vampirella vs Purgatori (2020), Vampiverse (2021), Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy! (2021) , The Vamp (2022), Vampirella: Mindwarp ( 2022 ), Vampirella vs. Superpowers (2022), and Vampirella: Year One (2022) to name

3825-500: The plural of the Latin word indicium meaning distinguishing marks, is a piece of text in a magazine or comic book , traditionally appearing on the first recto page after the cover, which usually contains the official name of the publication, its publication date, issue number, information regarding editorial governance of the publication, and a disclaimer regarding disposition of unsolicited submissions. While placement of indicia

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3900-447: The power to grow a giant pair of chiropteran wings to allow self-propelled flight. She can make her stare and even her voice hypnotic . She has been seen as having the ability to induce sexual arousal in males simply by being in their presence. She is shown to have the power of telepathy as she was able to hear the voices of demons inside Jackie Estacado 's mind. She is immortal . In addition to her supernatural abilities, Vampirella

3975-459: The reason Lilith raised Vampirella to be good was that the existence of vampires made Lilith weaker and she wanted someone to kill them. Lilith used a magic mirror to make Vampirella believe whatever variation on her origin was necessary at the time. In the initial Dynamite-published series, Vampirella works reluctantly with Dracula against a rebellious cult of his former followers. Acquiring Sofia Murray as her sidekick, Vampirella becomes involved in

4050-452: The rights to sister publications Creepy and Eerie . Harris Comics published Vampirella stories in various series and miniseries from 1991 to 2007, beginning with Vampirella #113 (1988), a one-issue continuation of the original series, containing Vampirella reprints and one unrelated new story. Harris subsequently published the all-reprint one-shot Vampirella vs. the Cult of Chaos , and

4125-407: The series' last episode, took the daring approach of killing him off (one of the few comic book deaths that has actually "taken" and not been reversed or retconned away in the decades since it occurred) is very well regarded by both fans and other comics professionals. Goodwin stated in his final interview, "I think that Manhunter is one of just several projects that I've worked on that I consider

4200-506: The story (pre- Return of the Jedi ) in a daily comic strip . Goodwin wrote the strips under his own name, although many websites and other sources erroneously claim he used the pseudonyms R.S. Helm and Russ Helm . Writer Mark Evanier corrected the matter by stating "Archie did write the Star Wars comic strip (as well as other Star Wars material) but only under his own name. Russ Helm

4275-521: The supporting character Rachel van Helsing . Goodwin co-created (with Marie Severin ) the first Spider-Woman , as well as writing her first appearance in Marvel Spotlight No. 32 (February 1977). Goodwin also co-designed Marvel's New Universe line and created four of the eight series in the line. He explained, "[Marvel editor-in-chief] Jim Shooter keeps saying of me: 'Well, here's this guy, in one meeting, he suddenly spews out half

4350-426: The time) at a point when the comics industry was in severe decline. Goodwin recalled about the Star Wars comic book, "That really worked ... but I can't take any credit for it. Roy Thomas is the one who brought it to Marvel, and he had to push a little bit to get them to do it." He followed Thomas in adapting the Star Wars characters into an ongoing comic book with artist Carmine Infantino , as well as continuing

4425-472: The trade paperback Vampirella: Transcending Time & Space (1992), Vampirella: A Scarlet Thirst (1993), and Vampirella & The Blood Red Queen of Hearts (1996); and the series Vampirella of Drakulon #1–5, followed by #0 (Jan.–Nov. 1996). At the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in January 2007, Scott Licina, editor-in-chief of Fangoria Comics , announced his company had acquired

4500-647: The typical powers of mythological vampires. She exerts super-strength when facing her opponents and can move so fast that she appears as a blur of motion. Her senses are far beyond those of humans, allowing her to tell one's emotional state through their scent, hear things imperceptible to humans, and see clearly in total darkness. She is very athletic, possessing great stamina, reflexes, and agility beyond that of humans. Her healing factor grants her great resilience and allows her to heal rapidly from her wounds and makes her immune to Earthly illness and toxins. Feeding restores her strength and health particularly quickly. She had

4575-454: The understanding that it would only be temporary until a permanent replacement could be found. He ultimately resigned at the end of 1977 and was replaced by Jim Shooter . While Goodwin was editor-in-chief, Marvel secured the rights to publish the Star Wars film's comic adaptation and tie-in series , which then sold phenomenally well (helped by a dearth of other Star Wars merchandise at

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4650-486: The worldwide film, television and streaming rights to Dynamite Entertainment 's Vampirella . Including stories, characters, and derivative works of the Vampirella universe. Vampirella originally hails from the planet Drakulon, a world where blood flows like water and where the natives, called the Vampiri, share traditionally vampiric characteristics. Drakulon orbits a binary star which causes continuous droughts throughout

4725-420: The writer incorporated all the previous versions of the character's history to make a comprehensive revision of Vampirella's back story. Vampirella has been on Earth for 50 years, and Draklon is an alternate version of Earth's moon. The alternate version of Earth is called Arcadia. Drakulon and Arcadia were at war which caused Aracadia to die out and Drakulon became an archaic society. Vampirella possesses many of

4800-422: The year. These droughts gradually dry up the Vampiri's blood supply; threatening them with extinction. Vampirella's journey begins when an American space shuttle crashes on Drakulon. Hoping to save her people, she travels to Earth and begins hunting dark remnants of her own race. Earth's vampires originate from Dracula, a forgotten member of the Vampiri race who left his homeworld centuries ago only to be corrupted by

4875-588: Was Tom Sutton . Artist Frank Frazetta 's first-issue cover was a substitute for the original cover by European artist Aslan . José González became the character's primary artist starting with issue #12. Other artists who drew Vampirella during her magazine's original run included Gonzalo Mayo, Leopold Sanchez , Esteban Maroto , José Ortiz , Escolano , Rudy Nebres , Ramon Torrents , Pablo Marcos , Jim Janes, John Lakey, Val Lakey, and Louis Small Jr. Backup features appearing in Vampirella included "Tomb of

4950-465: Was a comic strip created by Ron Goulart and Gil Kane , first published on October 3, 1977, that ran through May 2, 1981 by United Feature Syndicate . It was written through April 1979 by Goulart, followed by Archie Goodwin (1979–1980). His experience ghost writing Dan Flagg inspired "The Success Story" (drawn by Williamson, who had ghosted on Flagg ) for Creepy No. 1 (1964), famed among comic strip fans for its EC style dark humor in depicting

5025-481: Was a completely different person writing under his own name." During Goodwin and Infantino's tenure on Marvel's Star Wars series, it was one of the industry's top selling titles. He wrote comic book adaptations for Marvel of the two Star Wars sequels as well as other science-fiction films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner . Alien: The Illustrated Story , or simply Alien ,

5100-480: Was also awarded two Eisner Awards in 1997. First with Gary Gianni for Best Short Story for "Heroes" from Batman: Black & White and another with James Robinson , Tony Harris and Wade Von Grawbadger for Best Serialized Story for Starman "Sand and Stars" (Issues #20-23) Goodwin was honored posthumously in 1998, by being named to the National Comics Award Roll of Honour and he

5175-607: Was also translated in Japanese, Spanish and Dutch. After Marvel Comics passed on publishing the American incarnation of Metal Hurlant ( Heavy Metal ), Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter was charged with producing an alternate title, which became Epic Illustrated . It was initially edited by Rick Marschall , but Shooter approached publisher Stan Lee to urge a replacement: "I told Stan, 'There's one guy who could do this. I don't know if we can get him.' He said, 'Who's that?' 'Archie Goodwin.' The reason I didn't think we could get him

5250-588: Was another planet. Vampirella restores the rivers of blood to Drakulon, which weakens Lilith, who is killed by the hand of God. A further revision in the "World's End" storyline revealed Lilith did not really repent and raised Vampirella to be good because she wanted to release the Heart of Darkness (heart of the fallen angel Malkuth) from Metatron 's lance, which could only be done by a good person. Another retcon, in Vampirella: Revelations , reveals

5325-722: Was entered into the Eisner Hall of Fame . In 2007, Goodwin was inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma , located in the Toy and Action Figure Museum . In 2008, he was one of two recipients of that year's Bill Finger Award , which annually honors one living and one deceased comics creator. The award was presented July 25, 2008, during the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards ceremony at San Diego Comic-Con . He makes

5400-423: Was first written by Paul Cornell, and later by Jeremy Whitley. A fifth relaunch, written by Christopher Priest and Ergun Gündüz, began publication in July 2019 and commemorated the character's 50th anniversary. The run lasted 25 issues long and ended with Vampirella's marriage to Dracula . In 2019, Dynamite also revived the series Vengeance of Vampirella , which had been the name of a Harris-era comic, and hired

5475-545: Was initially edited by Bill Parente. It was later edited by Archie Goodwin (issues #7–12, 34–35), Billy Graham (#13–16), Bill DuBay (#21–50, 87–95, 101–102) and Louise Jones (#51–86). According to comics historian Richard J. Arndt, " Forrest Ackerman created, or at least had a strong hand in creating, Vampirella and he clearly had a major influence in shaping the lighthearted bad-girl story style of this issue as well." Her costume and hair style were designed by comics artist Trina Robbins . The character's first story artist

5550-617: Was published in 2023. Vampirella was ranked 35th in Comics Buyer's Guide 's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. Data is derived from annual Statements of Circulation. "Copies printed" refers to total print run. "Total paid circulation" refers to number of copies actually sold, which is the above number minus returns, lost/damaged copies, and free/promotional copies. Brandon Jerwa Vol. 2: A Murder of Crows Vol. 3: Throne of Skulls Vol. 4: Inquisition Vol. 5: Mothers, Sons, and

5625-503: Was the original writer on the Iron Man series which launched that year. According to Goodwin, when he entered editor Stan Lee 's office to apply for a job with Marvel, Lee was in the middle of writing an Iron Man story and handed him photostats of the pages he was working on for his writer's test. Goodwin speculated, "I assume if he had been working on Sgt. Fury , I'd have been writing Sgt. Fury . Thank God he wasn't writing Millie

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