Children of the Night Timeline:

                                     1950-1979

1950

Helen Rossi, a descendent of Vlad Tepes, begins her travels through

Istanbul alongside a man named Paul, the former student of her late

father, Prof. Bartholomew Rossi.  This leads them on a dangerous cat

and mouse chase throughout  Eastern Europe with a vampiric lackey of an

as yet unidentified soul-clone of Dracula who was posing as a librarian,

after they discover that this librarian abducted Prof. Rossi when his

scholarly studies came too close to revealing the secret location of

Dracula's tomb, which this particular soul-clone was now apparently

utilizing.  They ultimately trace the tomb of this Dracula soul-clone to a

monastery called Sveti Georgi, which is located in  Bulgaria. There they

do not find the Vampire Lord, but they do find the now vampirized

Bartholomew Rossi, whom they are forced to slay, but not before he

reveals that this particular Dracula soul-clone is also a scholar who has a

secret library (this fact goes a long way towards explaining why this

particular man was turned into a soul-clone, presumably by Dracula-

Prime).  Helen and Paul then move to the United States together, get

married, and have a daughter whose name has yet to be revealed.*

* See Elizabeth Kostova's report The Historian. 

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Mexico   El Santo (a.k.a., the Saint, a.k.a., Samson), the latest in a long

family tradition of silver-masked heroes, thwarts the plans of

Dracula-Delgado’s Mexican Vampire Women.*

Transylvania  Agents from the criminal organization known as

T.H.R.U.S.H stage an operation in Castle Dracula. They are foiled in their

plans by L.O.A.D. agent Forest J. Ackerman, Zoltan Dracula, and two

agents from the spy agency known as U.N.C.L.E.

1967

Later this year, the second bio-synthetic Frankenstein Monster created


by the Ummoans and sequestered in suspended animation in the Arctic


(see entry for 1795), was finally activated (it probably wasn't a coincidence


that this activation occurred at around the same time Frank Stone was


reactivated from his own suspended animation, as this was the time when


the Ummoans were launching a covert attempt to take over the Earth****).


The Frankendroid 2, unlike the Frankendroid 1 (a.k.a., Frank Stone),


was fully under the control of the Ummoans' destructive programming,


and the deadly synthoid hitched a rid on a scientific freighter back to


America.  Upon arriving, the Synthoid Monster ended up battling the


team of posthuman misfits known as the "Legion of the Strange," who


ultimately destroyed the Frankendroid 2 for good.*****

**** See Paul Naschy's file ASSIGNMENT: TERROR (a.k.a., DRACULA


VS. FRANKENSTEIN) for most of the story behind the Ummoan invasion


of the late 1960s. 

***** See Roy Thomas' file "The Mark of the Monster!", published in X-Men

Vol. 1 #40 by Marvels Comics. The depiction of events in this story was

heavily fictionalized, with the Legion of the Strange replaced by the

fictitious team of mutant super-heroes called the X-Men, whose series

Marvels based on collected reports of the actual exploits of the Legion of

the Strange, much as DC Comics based their fictitious team of strange

super-heroes called the Doom Patrol upon. Other details, such as the

power levels of the Frankendroid 1, were also exaggerated.

Nevertheless, this report may have given us our only hint to date of the

actual appearance of the Ummoans, and what their dying homeworld, are

like. It's believed their homeworld was rapidly loosing all available

resources due to the growing instability of the binary star system it existed

within, and they lacked the resources to find an uninhabited planet to

terra-form to their needs, something the fascistic worldwide governmental

body ruling that world was loathe to consider anyway; to the Ummoan

governing body, it was far more expedient to simply take over a nearby,

resource-rich world whose inhabitants were technologically inferior, which

they deemed Earth to be. 

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1968

Death of Kurt and Anna Van Helsing. Their remains are found in a plane

wreck along with their very frightened daughters by Kurt’s brother Conrad

Van Helsing. Puncture marks are found on the necks of the two corpses.

Mexico   El Santo defeats the plans of Dr. Freda Frankenstein (the

daughter of Dr. Irving Frankenstein) and her assistant, Dr. Yanco.

** Agent Marv Wolfman collected many records of Dracula-Prime's

exploits during the 1970s, and they were published in The Tomb of Dracula

series #'s 1-70, as well as the spin-offs Giant-Size Chillers #1/Giant-Size

Dracula #'s 2-4, by Marvels Comics. 

The Vampire Lord also inadvertently crossed paths with Peter Parker, the

original Spider-Man, during an incident on an ocean vessel, and this report,

entitled, "Ship of Fiends!"  was chronicled by Len Wein in Giant-Size

Spider-Man #1.

His 1970s conflict with Jack Russell, the "Werewolf by Night," was

recorded in a 2-part file entitled "Enter: Werewolf By Night!," both of

which were collected by Marv Wolfman, the first of which was published in

The Tomb of Dracula Vol. 1 #18, the second of which appeared in

Werewolf By Night #15, both by Marvels Comics. 

His initial battle with the supreme sorcerer Dr. Strange was chronicled in a

2-part file entitled, "The Tomb of Dr. Strange," the first of which was

recorded by Marv Wolfman in The Tomb of Dracula Vol. 1 #44, with the

second part recorded by Steve Englehart in Dr. Strange Vol. 2 #14, both

published by Marvels Comics.

Additionally, many of Dracula-Prime's exploits throughout the centuries

were recorded in the magazine Dracula Lives, and these series were 

followed by a second magazine version of The Tomb of Dracula, where

more of his exploits were recorded by different chroniclers working for

Marvels.

These files have since been reprinted in the various volumes of Marvels'

Essential Tomb of Dracula series.

*** See Bob Kelljan's file SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM.

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Mexico   El Santo and Blue Demon foil the plot of 113-year-old Dr. Irwin

Frankenstein, who has been transplanting the brains of women into the

skulls of other women, and vice versa. The operations fail, but instead of

disposing of the bodies secretly, Frankenstein reanimates them and

sends them out into the street.

Thank God for El Santo and Blue Demon, who thankfully both arrived to

thwart the evil scientist's plan.*