Complete Dracula 5

"Your girls that you all love are mine already! Through them, you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed!"

- Dracula

"Dracula" is the otherwise untitled fifth issue to the The Complete Dracula five-issue comic book limited series published by Dynamite Entertainment. The story was written by Leah Moore and John Reppion based on original material published by Bram Stoker. It was illustrated by Colton Worley and lettered by Simon Bowland. The story was edited by Joseph Rybandt. This issue shipped in December, 2009 and carries a cover price of $4.99 per copy (US).

Synopsis
Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. It is this connection that they start to use to deduce Dracula's movements. It is only possible to detect Dracula's surroundings when Mina is put under hypnosis by Van Helsing. This ability gradually gets weaker as the group makes their way to Dracula's castle.

Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by Van Helsing's group, who manage to track him down just before sundown and destroy him by shearing "through the throat" with a knife and stabbing him in the heart also with a knife. Dracula crumbles to dust, his spell is lifted and Mina is freed from the marks. Quincey Morris is killed in the final battle, stabbed by Gypsies who had been charged with returning Dracula to his castle; the survivors return to England.

The book closes with a note about Mina's and Jonathan's married life and the birth of their first-born son, whom they name after all four members of the party, but refer to only as Quincey in remembrance of their American friend.

Featured characters

 * Abraham Van Helsing
 * Jack Seward
 * Jonathan Harker
 * Mina Harker

Supporting characters

 * Arthur Holmwood
 * Quincey Morris

Antagonists

 * Dracula

Minor characters

 * Quincy Harker
 * R.M. Renfield
 * Gypsy servants

Organizations

 * Brides of Dracula

Races

 * Humans
 * Vampires

Locations

 * England
 * London
 * Essex
 * Purfleet
 * Carfax Abbey
 * Seward Sanitarium


 * Romania
 * Transylvania
 * Castle Dracula

Items

 * Knife

Vehicles

 * The Czarina Catherine

Miscellaneous

 * Castle
 * Gypsies
 * Hypnosis
 * Stabbings
 * Vampire deaths by impalement
 * Vampire mesmerism

Notes & Trivia

 * This issue adapts chapters twenty-two to twenty-seven of Dracula.


 * This is the final issue of the series.


 * Dates range from October 3rd to November 5th, 1897.


 * Includes a postscript by Leah Moore and John Reppion dated October, 2009.