OCT 31, 2026
MORBIUS DEBUTED IN THE FIRST SPIDER-MAN COMIC STAN LEE DIDN’T WRITE — AND HE EXISTS BECAUSE THE COMICS CODE FINALLY ALLOWED VAMPIRES!
He was almost Dracula — until Stan Lee asked for a costume, and science did the rest.
The Amazing Spider-Man #101 (1971) pairs Roy Thomas and Gil Kane for the first Spider-Man issue Stan Lee didn’t write; a February 1971 Comics Code revision had just lifted the vampire ban, and Thomas built a living vampire out of bat DNA instead of the supernatural.
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