Comic Covers/Storylines
#1
(December 1968) “The Vampire's Prey.”Written by Don Arneson. Illustrated by Joe Certa.
Dave Trask, great-great-nephew of the bricked-up Reverend Trask, comes to Collinsport to solve the mystery of his ancestor's disappearance two centuries earlier.
#2
(August 1969) “The Fires of Darkness.”
The ghost of the witch Angelique, taunting the vampire Barnabas Collins, engulfs Barnabas in “hellfire”-a particular brand of flame which baffles Collinsport Fire Marshal Marc Hull.
#3
(November 1969) “Return for Revenge.”
Barnabas Collins journeys back in time to 1769 in an attempt to put to rest the vengeful ghost of Setauket, a murdered Native American.
#4
(February 1970) “The Man Who Could Not Die.”
Barnabas time-travels to the London of 1665 in order to free the soul of Devlin Collins, a wandering immortal.
#5
(May 1970) “The Curse of Collins Isle.”
William Starbuck, a werewolf, escapes his confinement on Collins Isle, off the coast of Collinsport, Maine.
#6
(August 1970) “Awake to Evil.”
Barnabas and his cousin Quentin Collins, a werewolf, battle an Egyptian mummy and superstitious townspeople.
#7
(November 1970) “Wings of Fear.”
Angelique turns Collinsport citizen Pamela Cordon into a vampire; however, Professor Stokes finds a cure for her state. (See
#8
(February 1971) “The Vampire Trap.”
Barnabas and Quentin must grapple with suspicious townspeople, their own personal curses, and an unscrupulous student of the occult.
#9
(May 1971) “Creatures in Torment.”
Barnabas and Quentin are dogged by Hans Silber, a zealous vigilante who hunts down supernatural creatures and destroys them with silver bullets.
#10
(May 1971) “Creatures in Torment.”
Barnabas and Quentin are dogged by Hans Silber, a zealous vigilante who hunts down supernatural creatures and destroys them with silver bullets.
#11
(November 1971) “The Thirteenth Star.”
Barnabas must travel to the year 2071 to put to rest a golem, awakened in 1971 by Collins Comet.
#12
(February 1972) “The Glove.”
Barnabas returns to Leeds, England, on 1 November 1724 to aid his cousin Chesire Collins in a duel.
#13
(April 1972) “Hellfire.”
When hellfire reappears inside Collinwood and consumes Constance Collins, “the last innocent Collins,” Barnabas leaps into the blaze and follows his lovely cousin to the Netherworld.
#14
(June 1972) “The Mystic Painting.”
A painting of the English estate Collingreen sends Barnabas back to 1743, where he must put to rest the spirits of Sara Collins and Owen Roberts, her artist-lover.
#15
(August 1972) “The Night Children.”
Cali, girl queen of demons, and Andras, boy marquis of Hades, battle Barnabas and Quentin, both at Collinwood and in the Netherworld.
#16
(August 1972) “The Night Children.”
Cali, girl queen of demons, and Andras, boy marquis of Hades, battle Barnabas and Quentin, both at Collinwood and in the Netherworld.
#17
(December 1972) “The Bride of Barnabas Collins.”
Barnabas slips through “the foggy mists of time” and emerges in Limbo, where he meets-and falls in love with-Hope Forsythe.
#18
(February 1973) “Guest in the House.”
New York's crime kingpin, Erik Mica, hiding out at Collinwood, courts Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and learns the secret of Barnabas Collins.
#19
(April 1973) “Island of Eternal Life.”
Barnabas is taken aboard a phantom pirate ship to the Island of Eternal Youth, where he meets Lani, a Polynesian ghost-woman.
#20
(June 1973) “Quentin the Vampire.”
When Julia injects Quentin with a “blood serum” meant for Barnabas, Quentin becomes a vampire during the full moon!
#21
(August 1973) “The Crimson Carnival.”
The arrival in Collinsport of Dr. Karl Ruthven's Carnival of the Occult coincides with the visit of Elizabeth's lovely cousin, Constance Collins Harker, and her new husband, Garry Harker.
#22
(October 1973) “Seed of Evil.”
Written by Arnold Drake. Illustrated by Joe Certa.
Warlock Osmond Kalyustin grows “devil pods” which hatch replicas of Dr. Hoffman and Professor Stokes.
#23
(December 1973) “The Cult of the Dasni.”
Pamela Cordon, Barnabas, Quentin, and Stokes visit the tiny village of Amenti, which is inhabited by a cult of vampires-and by Garm, a giant, two-headed hound!
#24
(February 1974) “On Borrowed Blood.”
Written by Arnold Drake. Illustrated by Joe Certa.
An emergency blood transfusion from Barnabas turns the ruthless millionaire Andre Markovian into a vampire-and Barnabas must stop the now-superhuman madman from overthrowing an island nation.
#25
(April 1974) “The Immortal!”
Xanis, a sorcerer whose immortal soul transfers itself to a strong, new body every eighty years, chooses vampire Barnabas Collins as his next host body.
#26
(June 1974) “The Witch Dolls.”
Angelique, disguised as old Granny Bumpers, shrinks Quentin and two other Collinsport citizens to the sizes of dolls!
#27
(August 1974) “My Blood or Yours.”
A possible cure for Quentin's lycanthropy lies in the distant past, so Barnabas journeys to the Collinsport of two centuries ago to retrieve an “anti-evil potion” from alchemist Isaac Salter and his kindhearted daughter Sarah.
#28
(October 1974) “The Visitor.”
This routine story about a fortune-hunter empowered with mesmerism is distinguished-notoriously!-by its horrendous error of portraying “Elizabeth and Roger Stoddard” as husband and wife instead of as brother and sister.
#29
(December 1974) “Stolen Centuries.”
Barnabas is reunited with Zachary Firestone, a boyhood friend who has survived the centuries because of an elixir of longevity-a potion which is about to wear off.
#30
(February 1975) “The Weekend Witch Hunters.”
Written by Arnold Drake. Illustrated by Joe Certa.
In this disconcerting comedy story, Quentin (clad in a pirate's costume) helps Elizabeth host a “witches' party” for a group of middle-aged tourists on a “witchcraft tour” of New England.
#31
(April 1975) “The Doom of Helgi Kolnisson.”
Barnabas and Roger Collins are hurled back in time to a savage Iceland in the year AD 975, where they meet their Norse ancestor, Helgi Kolnisson; his daughter, Sigurd; Morath, a crafty wizard; and King Hrolf Thormussen, Helgi's enemy.
#32
(June 1975) “The Secret of the Light-House.”
Roger has nightmares about his experiences in Iceland; Collinsport District Attorney Peter Hang opposes a gun-running ring; an aging lighthouse keeper is comforted each new moon by the phantom of his drowned beloved; and Barnabas Collins develops amnesia!
#33
(August 1975) “King of the Wolves.”
Quentin Collins treks to the Canadian wilderness-where the wolves bow down to him as their king.
#34
(November 1975) “Collinwood Possessed.”
In this sequel to “The Doom of Helgi Kolnisson”, a battle for Collinwood and its supernatural energy is fought between Angelique and the Norse wizard Morath.
#35
(February 1976)
Barnabas explains his absences during the daylight hours by declaring that he is writing the biography of Sarah Salter Collins. Problems ensue when a mischievous Angelique sends a pompous book publisher to Collinwood to inspect Barnabas's non-existent “book!”
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