Collected Editions
From 2003 to 2005, as part of its Essential Marvel series of trade paperbacks, Marvel published a four-volume, black-and-white Essential Tomb of Dracula collection, with the first three collecting the 70 issues plus selections from the black-and-white Tomb of Dracula magazine. The fourth reprinted the comics stories from Dracula Lives and the remainder of the stories from the Tomb of Dracula magazine. In 2008 Marvel launched the first of three Marvel Omnibus reprinting Tomb of Dracula.
The comics have been collected as part of the Essential series of trade paperbacks. The volumes are:
- Volume 1 (560 pages, 2003, Panini, ISBN 1-904159-62-1, Marvel, ISBN 0-7851-0920-X)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #1-25, Werewolf By Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers #1
- Volume 2 (592 pages, 2004, Panini, ISBN 1-905239-05-X, Marvel, ISBN 0-7851-1461-0)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #26-49, Dr. Strange #14, Giant-Size Dracula #2-5
- Volume 3 (584 pages, 2004, Panini, ISBN 1-905239-06-8, Marvel, ISBN 0-7851-1558-7)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #50-70, The Tomb of Dracula Magazine #1-4
- Volume 4 (576 pages, 2005, Panini, ISBN 1-905239-20-3, Marvel, ISBN 0-7851-1709-1)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2, 4-6, Dracula Lives! #1-13, Frankenstein Monster #7-9
Some of the nudity was removed from the fourth volume. Publisher Dan Buckley explained, "That wasn't because we were going to bookstores, or because we were exclusively going to hobby shops. It probably had more with where we were at from a ratings standpoint and the editors felt that was the appropriate thing to do, considering how we communicate what's going on in our books from a packaging standpoint. ...We generally avoid nudity, unless it's a MAX title. We don't want to take an Essential volume and start calling it MAX; then you get into branding issues." Retailers' opinions on the matter are split.
A Marvel Omnibus collecting The Tomb of Dracula #1-31, Werewolf by Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers #1, and Giant-Size Dracula #2-4 was released in November 2008. The second volume, collecting The Tomb of Dracula #32-70, Giant-Size Dracula #5, and Dr. Strange #14 was released in October 2009. The third volume, collecting Tomb of Dracula Magazine #1-6, Frankenstein Monster #7-9, and Dracula Lives! #1-13 was released in January 2011.
In 2010, Marvel began publishing the series as full-colour trade paperbacks. The volumes are:
- Volume 1 (264 pages, July 2010)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #1-12
- Volume 2 (272 pages, October 2010)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #13-23, Werewolf by Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers #1
- Volume 3 (248 pages, January 2011)
- Collects Tomb of Dracula #24-31, Giant-Size Dracula #2-4
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