July 17, 2022

This Day in Halloween: Super hero Vampirella, by Forrest J. Ackerman and Trina Robbins, appears for the first time in Vampirella #1 in 1969./ illustration by Holly Vigil

Super hero Vampirella appears for the first time in Vampirella #1 in 1969. The creation of writer Forrest J. Ackerman and artist Trina Robbins for Warren Publishing, she is a voluptuous and scantily-clad  “lighthearted bad girl” who shares some of the vampire abilities but often fights vampires like Dracula. A 1996 movie and various off-shoot comics would follow.