Issue 87 - Mina: Dracula's Destroyer

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Journey Planet 87: Mina - Dracula’s Destroyer 
The team is back with the second installment of Journey Planet’s look at Bram Stoker’s Dracula. We had so much interest in this topic, that we had enough content for two full issues. 
To commemorate Bram Stoker’s birthday, Allison Hartman Adams joins Chris and James again to do a deeper dive into the text and works of fiction, art, and comics it has inspired. 
In “Train Fiend” James looks at the railway connections to Bram Stoker and the railway aspects in the novel, comparing the train movements and times in the novel to timetables of the day, seeking to pinpoint where and when Bram Stoker based these journeys.
Dracula-related comics and movies have a strong presence here as well: Kim Newman’s review of Batman/Dracula; Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from David Ferguson; Dracula Lives from Rob Kirby; Batman and Vampires from James Bacon, and Alberto Breccia’s “I Was Legend” from Jim O’Brien. 
In "Molested, Murdered, Maligned: In Defense of “Poor Dear Lucy,” Allison challenges the dreadful treatment Lucy has received at Dracula scholars’ hands over the years. 
Allison also considers and reflects on the character of Mina in relation to why she writes, and takes a nerdy wander in “Dracula By the Numbers.”
In “Dracula Then and Now,” James sets out from Budapest to the Borgo Pass by train, reflecting on the changes and sharing his experience and journey through Hungary and Romania.  
With stunning front and back covers by Iain Clark, the issue is beautifully bound.  
Journey Planet #87: Mina - Dracula’s Destroyer is available for free download here.
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Table of Contents
My Bradshaw’s: Editor’s Note by Allison Hartman Adams
Train Fiend by James Bacon
Mina and the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by David Ferguson
Why Mina Writes by Allison Hartman Adams
Batman/Dracula (1964) by Kim Newman
Dracula Lives by Rob Kirby
Molested, Murdered, Maligned: In Defense of “Poor Dear Lucy” by Allison Hartman Adams
I Was Legend: Alberto Breccia, Dracula, and the Argentinian Military Dictatorship by Jim O’Brien
Batman & Vampires by James Bacon
Dracula by the Numbers by Allison Hartman Adams
Dracula Then and Now - The Borgo Pass by James Bacon 
Enditorial by James Bacon