Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy

Yeah, the weak link in that earlier DRACULA LIVES story was not Neal Adams, it was the stilted writing of Marv Wolfman, overplayed with deadpan screaming melodarama at every turn in the "Mighty Marvel" tradition. It's a perfect example of why I always preferred DC to Marvel.

Stephen Perry wrote a number of good stories. Another was in BIZARRE ADVENTURES 31, "A Frog Is A Frog", 10 pages, also from 1982. In the "Violence"-themed stories issue.
http://12comic.com/issue.jsp?p=49&id=190227065608fxo0

That entire issue was great, stories by O'Neil/Miller, Moench/Sienkiewicz, Hama, Byrne, a guy named Mark Armstrong whose story I also loved, and then Perry/Bissette, all talents in their prime doing great work.

Perry was actually brutally murdered a few years ago, apparently he had a winning lottery ticket, and one of his neighbors killed him for it.


I generally was a fan of Wolfman‘s 70s and 80s output. That being said, I always felt like he was a more disciplined writer when he worked at DC.