COUNT DROCKULA

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Real Name: Count Drockula

Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Earth-77536) vampire

Occupation: Predator

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Boris

Enemies: Freddy Flintstone, Philo Quartz, Barney Rubble (all Earth-77536)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Vampire Valley (Earth-77536)

First Appearance: Flintstone Kids#5/3 (April, 1988)

Powers/Abilities: Count Drockula is a vampire who requires human blood for sustenance, using his sharp incisors to pierce the victim's skin. He can teleport short distances, initially manifesting briefly in a wisp form. Drockula has the ability to hypnotize someone almost immediately with direct eye-to-eye contact. He avoids sunlight and keeps bats as familiars. He may have the ability to manipulate weather for around a half mile radius (see comments). It is unrevealed if he has any of the other strengths/weaknesses of vampires.

Height: 6'
Weight: 180 lbs.
Eyes: Black
Hair: Black

History:

(Flintstone Kids#5/3 (fb) - BTS) - Even in the prehistoric era, vampires had become the stuff of legend used to scare people and children.

(Flintstone Kids#5/3) - By chance, the hiking children Freddy Flintstone, Philo Quartz and Barney Rubble stopped in the evening to camp, not realizing they were near vampire Count Drockula's mountain cave lair. Barney told a story of a vampire, but Freddy interrupted, too focused on food. A storm suddenly erupted and the children fled for cover to the open cave. Freddy ran back for the picnic food giant meat drumstick and T-bone steak while the other two clambered up the cliff and eventually made it inside the cave. Count Drockula menacingly greeted them, teleporting to block their escape and quickly hypnotized the pair so they fell asleep, intending to drink their blood. Meanwhile, Freddy had recovered the food and scaled the mountainside when he saw his friends' predicament. Hearing noise, Drockula sent his bat Boris to investigate, but Freddy knocked it down with a well-aimed drumstick. Drockula went out to inspect. Remembering vampiric lore, Freddy hoped a meat steak would work as good as a wooden stake to the heart (given the words' same pronunciation), and slapped Drockula on the chest with the T-bone steak. Drockula felt that he had been defeated and teleported away in mist, but threatened Freddy with a future encounter. Philo and Barney quickly recovered, the rain stopped and there was a clear sunrise.

Comments: Created by Michael Gallagher & Warren Kremer.

Count Drockula is, of course, the rock-themed Flintstones version of Count Dracula.

I guess it's implied that Count Drockula caused the sudden bad weather so that the children would seek his cave as the only nearby shelter, given that the bad weather disappeared immediately after Drockula did (but where did he go to?).

Does he have any relation to Count Rockula, who menaced the adult Fred Flintstone in "The New Fred and Barney Show" and "The Flintstone Comedy Show" TV cartoons (around 1979)? Similar vampire archetype appearance but a slight change in clothing (after a couple of decades, maybe that's ok!), but the name is nevertheless different.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Count Drockula has no known connections to:

Boris

Boris was Count Drockula's favored bat, like a familiar, and would obey his commands. It fluttered nearby ready to do Drockula's bidding. At one point, Drockula was distracted by a hidden young Freddy Flintstone near Drockula's cave hideout in Vampire Valley, and the vampire sent Boris out to investigate. But Freddy's sharp aim knocked down the bat with a picnic drumstick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Flintstone Kids#5/3

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Flintstone Kids#5/3, p4, pan3 (main image)
   p5, pan2 (headshot, hypnotizing)
   p5, pan1 (manifesting from mist)
   p6, pan2 (Boris)

Appearances:
Flintstone Kids#5/3 (April, 1988) - Michael Gallagher (writer), Warren Kremer (pencils), Jon D'Agostino (inks), Sid Jacobson (editor)

First posted: 10/31/2026
Last updated: 10/31/2026

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