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Lost and Found Dracula Doll

Supposedly this vintage Traveler's Dracula doll is rare, and yet, since purchasing him from The Alley in Chicago, I've seen this lil guy everywhere from Target to eBay. I wonder, just how many pallets of this doll did they find, in fact. Apparently The Alley found a pallet of new old stock of the 1985 doll in a warehouse, and have since started selling the dolls through their hell-bent for leather store in the Windy City. They're currently selling anywhere from 40 bucks to over a 100! I ordered mine directly from The Alley and he came with 2 silver coins (not bad) and a beanie. In the box is a death certificate signed by Mr. Abraham van Helsing himself (cute). I think I have the real deal then, suckers!


For $40 it was hard to pass up this cool collectible. I don't have anywhere to put him, unfortunately, but he will look great somewhere. Preferably somewhere away from the windows...


The art on the side flap is interesting. The marketing swings a hard left and calls the doll Drac Bat. And it's Dracula's head flying with the body of a bat, with more children of the night behind him. I don't know what's going on here. But I like the bail handles on the side of the coffin box here.


I'm tempted to throw some dirt in the coffin for him, pretend it's some soil from Transylvania for him to rest during the day a bit easier. Perhaps even better I'll purchase some of the Transylvanian soil from Warren Publishing Co.'s necklaces...

Now this was some cool shit! And props to Warren for getting Americans to shell out hard-earned money on a vial of dirt, probably found out back of the Warren offices in South Carolina. This is pique capitalism, boys and girls.

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