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Issue: Vampirella Masters Series #5
Publication Date: September 2011
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Issues: #5 of 7 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDynamite Entertainment
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Indicia Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 5
Pages: 332
ISBN: 16069023509781606902356
UPC/EAN: 9781606902356
Price: $24.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 41 (23 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: This volume contains Vampirella stories authored by Kurt Busiek originally published in Vampirella: Morning in America #1-4 (1991), Vampirella: Summer Nights (1992), and Vampirella: Dracula War #1-4 (1992-1993). The Morning in America and Summer Nights stories were originally published with black-and-white interiors, but those stories are reprinted here with color added.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: collected editions
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[untitled]

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #1 published September 1991
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Vampirella Masters Series Vol. 5: Kurt Busiek

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Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella #3 published March 1993
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Foreward

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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #2 published November 1991
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Morning in America One

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Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #1 published September 1991
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Chapter One: The Lion and the Lizard

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Adam Van Helsing; Vampirella; Chelsea Cantrell; Valerie; Ethan Shroud; Miss Normandy
Synopsis: Adam Van Helsing is a U.S. Senator, but it has been ten years since anyone has seen his father, Pendragon, or Vampirella. Meanwhile, the forces of darkness have taken over the night in Washington D.C. Most people are afraid to go out after dark. Ethan Shroud, the leader of the night's Unseelie Congress sets his sights on a schoolgirl named Chelsea.
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Chapter Two: Unborn Tomorrow & Dead Yesterday

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Valerie (Senator Van Helsing's secretary); Chelsea Cantrell; Ethan Shroud; Mrs. McArdle; Senator Adam Van Helsing; Vampirella; Professor Conrad Van Helsing; Pendragon
Synopsis: Senator Van Helsing's secretary is killed as a warning that the forces of darkness are still watching him. Meanwhile, Ethan Shroud reminisces about his victory over Vampirella ten years ago and misses the challenge. He poses as Chelsea's uncle to contact her and takes partial control of her mind. Later, he sends her a Vampirella costume.
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Chapter Three: Morning in the Bowl of Night

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Chelsea Cantrell; Miss Normandy [Vampirella]; Ethan Shroud; Toomey; Adam Van Helsing
Synopsis: Shroud sends a gang led by Toomey to kidnap Chelsea, but they are encountered by elderly Miss Normandy. When they attack, she bites the necks of some of the men and drains their blood. The blood transforms Miss Normandy back into a younger Vampirella.
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Chapter Four: A Chequer-board of Nights and Days

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ethan Shroud; Chelsea Cantrell; Adam Van Helsing; Toomey
Synopsis: Adam sets out to kill Ethan Shroud, but on the way he meets Vampirella again for the first time in ten years.
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Morning in America Two

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Character(s): Vampirella
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #2 published November 1991
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Chapter Five: Monkey Wine (That Which Enlivens)

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Pendragon; Adam Van Helsing; Vampirella; Ethan Shroud; Toomey; Bane
Synopsis: Shroud had invented the serum that Vampirella used to curb her blood lust. But Shroud had cut off the supplies to make the serum. Desperate, Vampirella had turned to a drug that caused her to lose her memories and transform into the elderly Ella Normandy. Restored by her attack on Toomey's gang, Vampirella learns from Adam that his father is dead and she has failed to keep her promise to protect him. Meanwhile, Shroud sacrifices Toomey to bring forth Bane.
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Chapter Six: Lion Wine (That Which Irritates)

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Adam Van Helsing; Vampirella; Bane; Pendragon
Synopsis: Vampirella looks for Chelsea, but Shroud has already taken her. Meanwhile, Bane's song has driven the populace in Washington D.C. to madness, turning people against each other.
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Chapter Seven: Sheep Wine (That Which Stupifies)

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Chelsea Cantrell; Ethan Shroud; Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Pendragon
Synopsis: Bane has summoned the populace to a political rally with his song where they are taken one by one by the night creatures as they succumb to his promises. Vampirella arrives just as Adam is about to be taken.
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Chapter Eight: Swine Wine (That Which Brutalizes)

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Ethan Shroud; Bane; Adam Van Helsing; Pendragon; Chelsea Cantrell
Synopsis: Vampirella destroys Bane and releases the populace, including Adam and Pendragon, from his control. However, Chelsea is still being held captive by Shroud.
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Morning in America Three

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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #3 published January 1992
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Chapter Nine: Wide the Gate and Broad the Way

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Mordecai Pendragon; Chelsea Cantrell; Conrad Van Helsing; Ethan Shroud
Synopsis: Vampirella, Adam, and Pendragon find and rescue Chelsea. Then Adam's dead and buried father shows up somehow alive. But this all seems to be part of Shroud's plan.
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Chapter Ten: New Wine in Old Bottles

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Chelsea Cantrell; Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Conrad Van Helsing; Pendragon
Synopsis: Vampirella and her crew take their rescued friends to the Van Helsing estate. But Shroud seems to be fighting for control over Conrad's mind. Meanwhile, Chelsea watches the window in fear, waiting for something.
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Chapter Eleven: Into the Wilderness

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ethan Shroud; Chelsea Cantrell; Mordecai Pendragon; Adam Van Helsing; Vampirella; Tristan; Conrad Van Helsing
Synopsis: While the rest of Vampirella's group is sleeping, Shroud uses his influence over Conrad Van Helsing to let in the Etherea, creatures of dreams.
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Chapter Twelve: Sheep's Clothing

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Pendragon; Ethan Shroud; Adam Van Helsing; Conrad Van Helsing; Chelsea Cantrell
Synopsis: Conrad attacks Vampirella, Adam and Pendragon while under Shroud's control. Conrad fights off the mental control, but as he does he is grabbed and bitten by Chelsea, who is now a vampire.
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Morning in America Four

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From Content Item: FlagVampirella: Morning in America #4 published April 1992
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Chapter Thirteen: The Seat of Desolation

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Pendragon; Adam Van Helsing; Conrad Van Helsing; Ethan Shroud; Chelsea Cantrell
Synopsis: After killing Adam's father, Chelsea flies away to Shroud's catacombs. Vampirella, Adam and Pendragon pursue her and Adam drives a stake through her.
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Chapter Fourteen: Insolence and Wine

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Pendragon; Ethan Shroud
Synopsis: Shroud's plans to slay Nuberous backfire when Vampirella overcomes him. Nuberous then begins to use Shroud's body as a gateway to return to Earth.
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Chapter Fifteen: Without All Hope of Day

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Pendragon; Adam Van Helsing; Nuberous
Synopsis: Morning comes to Washington without a dawn as Nuberous seduces the populace with voices promising the people their greatest desires.
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Chapter Sixteen: Close at the Ear of Eve

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Mordecai Pendragon; Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Nuberous
Synopsis: Nuberous seems to have taken control of everyone, but Pendragon breaks free from the voices. He awakens Adam who in turn, wakes Vampirella. With his web shredded, it will no longer support him and Nuberous dies.
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Summer Nights

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Genres: horror
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Adam Van Helsing

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Penciller(s): José González
Inker(s): José González
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Disclose Notes: Brief biography of Adam Van Helsing as an introduction to the following story which focuses on him (without Vampirella).
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The Reach of the Dead

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Adam Van Helsing; Ricardo Montoya
Synopsis: One of Adam's agents reports that six people are trapped by something deadly. Adam travels to the site to rescue the people and kills the monster.
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The Great Pendragon

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Penciller(s): José González
Inker(s): José González
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Disclose Notes: Brief biography of Pendragon as an introduction to the following story which focuses on him (without Vampirella).
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Magic Tricks

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Mordecai Pendragon; Rose; Patrick Granville
Synopsis: Pendragon relives his past when gang members working for his estranged daughter show up at the club he is working at to beat him up. They are under orders to kill him, but his grandson orders the thugs to let him go.
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Chelsea

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Character(s): Chelsea Cantrell
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Restless Spirit

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Chelsea Cantrell; Sarah Langton
Synopsis: Having been turned into a vampire, then killed, Chelsea has been returned to her vampire life by a construction worked who removes the stake used to kill her. Chelsea returns to her old friends, but realizes she must leave when the blood lust comes upon her. She is lonely and sad until she discovers a little girl who has been a ghost in a warehouse for a century. Chelsea discovers that cheering up the little girl also raises her spirits.
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Vampirella Dracula War: One

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella #1 published November 1992
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The Dracula War, Part One: Storm Clouds Gathering

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Pendragon; Fitz [Tommy Fitzhugh]; Hodgkins (death); Dracula (cameo)
Synopsis: One of Adam's agents warns that Dracula is active in Europe. Adam persuades Vampirella to join him in tracking down Dracula.
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Vampirella Dracula War: Two

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Dracula
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella #2 published February 1993
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The Dracula War, Part Two: City of Love

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Adam Van Helsing; Mordecai Pendragon; Jacques Ceti; Tristan; Dracula
Synopsis: Vampirella and Pendragon arrive in Paris to discover the government there is misleading the people about what is going on in the rest of the world. Eventually, Vampirella is led to Dracula himself.
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Dracula War: Three

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Character(s): Vampirella
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Revelations Dracula War: Part III

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Vampirella; Dracula; Jacques Ceti; Pendragon; Traveler; Adam Van Helsing
Synopsis: Dracula reveals that the war in Europe is a ruse to increase the vampire population for eventual world conquest. He offers to make Vampirella his queen, but she spurns his offer and escapes.
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Dracula War: Four

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Character(s): Vampirella
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella #4 published July 1993
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Dracula; Vampirella; Traveler; Adam Van Helsing; Pendragon; Madame Martine Andrecou
First Line: I hate to disturb the master, but he must know.
Synopsis: Having discovered that the leader of the European Alliance is under Dracula's control and his waging a fake war increase his followers, Vampirella goes to Monte Carlo and kills her to stop Dracula's bid for world domination.
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Twilight in America

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Character(s): Vampirella
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Disclose Notes: Afterword by "Morning in America" editor Richard Howell on the impact of that series on his career.
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Genres: horror
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From Content Item: FlagVampirella the Dracula War #[nn] [First Printing] published October 1993
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