{"id":42249,"date":"2024-01-04T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42249"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:08:23","slug":"you-cant-keep-a-good-vampire-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/04\/you-cant-keep-a-good-vampire-down\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Keep a Good Vampire Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dark Shadows\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/53441202637\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53441202637_ab28b4462c_c.jpg?resize=547%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dark Shadows\" width=\"547\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Although the TV series ended in 1971, vampire Barnabas Collins continued to haunt the comic book racks of newsstands and convenience stores well into the 1970s. The comic above was published by <em>Gold Key<\/em> in 1974 &#8212; 50 years ago! If I had seen the cover of werewolf Quentin battling it out with Barnabas, I would have surely parted with the quarter! For now, I will content myself by perusing my buddy&#8217;s copy which he recently acquired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the TV series ended in 1971, vampire Barnabas Collins continued to haunt the comic book racks of newsstands and convenience stores well into the 1970s. The comic above was published by Gold Key in 1974 &#8212; 50 years ago! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/01\/04\/you-cant-keep-a-good-vampire-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[331,5780,726,9,2508,5781,76,336,640],"class_list":["post-42249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-331","tag-barnabas-collins","tag-comic-book","tag-comics","tag-dark-shadows","tag-gold-key","tag-horror","tag-vintage","tag-werewolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aZr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40964,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/07\/20\/barnabas-dark-shadows-paperbacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":42249,"position":0},"title":"BARNABAS! Dark Shadows Paperbacks","author":"Joe","date":"July 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This was an ad for a series of paperback novels based on the wildly popular gothic horror soap opera series Dark Shadows. 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