There was not really a dormant vampire here to revive. Draka was already up and about, monitoring the monastery on horseback. Dracula's remains are not actually here either, as Draka comments to the monk. 
Draka was toying with the three grave robbers, frightening them with a hallucination of Vlad, after Mihail assaulted his servant the monk. As a Master of the Night, Draka has powers of illusion and mind control that make him much more dangerous than the vampire thralls he creates.

Looks like she's doing a crane kick in the last panel. Lessons from Mr. Miyagi?

I have always wondered who Gil Dishpan was, and what he meant to Giffen or Levitz.

She took Illyana's mystical powers so thoroughly, she is even left-handed now.

Good action page. It's too bad Dinah doesn't have any super-powers that still work when her hands are restrained.

The early bird gets first choice at the best relevant jokes.

I do have pages from this era where the text was on a vellum overlay. However in that case usually there would be registration marks (a circle with a cross through it) taped to both the art page and the vellum page, so they could be lined up properly for reproduction. You can see an example here in the additional images, with Chris Claremont holding up the art and text pages separately, with the registration mark at the bottom of each.

I asked Tom Orzechowski how the text was added to the pages of X-Men 133 during production. He replied: "Most likely, the lettering, on vellum, was pasted onto photostats. As more and more books began to push the schedules, the practice moved to glueing directly onto the art. This allowed them to skip the step (and expense!) of making stats. How nice, meanwhile, that the art exists with all of Terry's background inks on display!"

And really, the art tells the story well enough that the text is superfluous. It is fun to see the marginal comments though.

Neat! How was the lettering done?

A great example from a great artist who will be greatly missed.

Fun! As always from Erika. I like the thought of Juggie just wearing regular pants and a belt, not super-tights.

You may have noticed that Nathan's flying car has fold-up wheels like Deckard's car as well. I suppose the same was true of the Delorean at the end of Back to the Future. Did that happen in a Bond movie too?

Go Betty go!

"Made the scene"... check out the hip youth lingo, straight from the late 1960s! It is odd that there are so many superheroes on the East Coast compared to the West.

Uniquely among Silver Age comics, LSH had no compunction about killing off heroes, even teenagers. And most of them stayed dead!

Nathan remembers his pre-Habitat life well. Xenia, on the other hand...

Did you pick this up from them this weekend?

Thank goodness. It's so much easier to leave all the thinking to a centralized authority.

Impressive texture work in a tense scene.

Hybrid's melty, bulbous face was one of my favorite designs. I used to doodle it all the time as a kid.

Cos lost his mom too, in a terrorist attack in #297. Poor guy!

Hosing down the woman wearing white? I call shenanigans.

She probably doesn't know Harry's dead, what with all the smoke in the iso-lab.

Yes, this series has a strong cyberpunk element, including a large role for trans-national corporations who make their own laws. Nathan often wears a jacket similar to Rick Deckard's in Blade Runner. 

I agree with your thought that these vellum pages were made to block out light and dark to see how they look at published size. I have one here.

I love this run. Many of the pages had three lives: large pencil version, small vellum version, and full size ink version.

Swan inked by Perez is so unusual, the best of the Silver and the Bronze An alloy!

Perez makes good use of the unusual vertical panel with a bird's eye shot.

I've always loved this page, especially the first panel, and the last, and... hmm, well, they're all great!

That first panel is particularly fantastic.

It looks great in black and white. The starfield contrasts so well with the rest.

Amazing pencils!

It's safe to say Prince Rudolf was not a great person. The worst is yet to come.

From photos, Klara really did look like that, including short hair and older than her age. As for the "spinster by the fireplace" look, hey, Germany was cold in the winter! This scene takes place in December 1888.

Acroyear front and center!

Hot cocoa and Tiffany lamps in the libary! The Avengers do live well. Congrats! This issue was released in the summertime; I guess Perez drew it in the winter.

So nice to see how Future Teens know how to convert raw materials into spaceship repairs.

He's still got it!

You are thinking along the same lines that I was. Better if there are two factions of Nazis: Steiner wants to own the diary and publicize Hitler's alleged royal origins. He could have an important additional motive which I will discuss next time.
 

But the young Nazi punks just want the Eagles' Nest to be left as a holy shrine rathe per than excavated and turned into a restaurant and tourist attraction, which is why they attacked a Martin and Renata repeatedly.

Yep, it's best to give artists plenty of creative space. And time!

That is a lot of art for a 9x12!

I liked this Timber Wolf costume with the big wolfie head on his torso.

Mon El may have been Giffen's favorite Legionnaire. At least, when I approached him about a commission in 2019: Mon El was the character that he considered doing. Sadly, it did not happen before his passing.

Don't take the horse for granted; many artists don't practice them enough to do them well.

True enough; in the heat of the moment, I guess he had to try! In his defense, he only learned an hour ago that vampires are real.

This image is based on a series of character portraits that Ross rendered from his custom photo-references, as part of the "Secret Origins" project. The figures have appeared in numerous configurations over the years, from stand-alone portraits of each hero to composite team shots. Back in 2002 Ross sold giclee prints featuring a digitally composited shot of the whole Justice League. I've had the print hanging on my wall since then.

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The figures in the current CAF image are chest-up versions of the same poses found on the previous Secret Origins character shots, now rendered in green, with more dramatic lighting. Why waste a good photo reference?

Don't shoot! Is that the shadow of another figure on the ground in front of them?

Black and White books are great, because the original art looks just as good as the published page.

The idea of a magic user being able to use only a few pre-chosen spells at one time probably came from Dungeons and Dragons. It is a helpful way to prevent ill-defined sorcery from being a cheat in any story.

Nice character-centric page catching Giffen on the cusp of his heavier, looser style. Hints of it are here already, but Mahlstead keeps the result in line with the Greak Darkness style.