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Lucy Westenra

Lucy Westenra

A character from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Name:
Lucy Westenra
Real name:
Lucy Westenra
Aliases:
  • Lucy Westernra
  • Lucy Weston
  • Lucy Westerman
  • Lucy Holmwood
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Female
Powers:
  • Agility
  • Flight
  • Invulnerability
  • Longevity
  • Mesmerize
  • Shape Shifter
  • Stamina
  • Super Sight
  • Super Smell
  • Super Speed
  • Super Strength
  • Telepathy
  • Unarmed Combat
  • Vampirism
First issue:
Vampirella (1969) #16
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Brief History

Lucy Westenra is the best-friend of Wilhelmina Murray. When Mina's (Wilhelmina) fiancee, Jonathan Harker, was away, Lucy invited Mina to stay with her. It was then that Mina realized Lucy was a sleepwalker. During one such occasion where Lucy was sleepwalking, Dracula encountered and bit her.

Lucy's health begins to deteriorate due to his continued visits to feed on her blood. After two bites, Dr. Seward seeks the aid of his mentor, Professor Van Helsing, as he doesn't know what's causing her illness. Helsing instantly identifies it as a vampire attack but brushes it off as a normal sickness and suggests using garlic as a remedy when really it'll ward off Dracula and keep Lucy safe. It nearly works but thanks to Lucy's mother who unwittingly removes the garlic, Dracula breaks in and finishes his deed.

Lucy dies from the final feeding, allowing the vampirism to transform her body into the walking undead. She begins to start spreading her own vampire bites around to little children, who dub her "The Bloofer Lady" (child speak for "Beautiful Lady"). Mimicking Dracula's attack on her with the intent of draining children gradually until they eventually weakened, died and turned into vampires themselves who would go on to spread it to others. Helsing realized this and gather the other protagonists (Seward, Quincy and Arthur, all three suitors to Lucy) to stop her.

The confronted her near her tomb where she was buried and waited till she returned. Helsing forced her back into her coffin before having Arthur (her fiancee) stake her, killing her for good.

Issues

March 1973

January 1975

March 1975

September 1976

March 1984

January 1987

October 1987

June 1993

September 2004

March 2005

July 2009

October 2010

February 2011

March 2011

December 2011

February 2024

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1952

1972

1973

1976

1982

1983

1985

2004

2009

2010

2011

2024

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