Lilith - Dracula's Daughter

The ultimate bad girl with Daddy issues, Lilith was a really messed up character, in both senses of that phrase.
She was a bit of a gadabout during the Bronze Age, appearing in Vampire Tales, Dracula Lives, Marvel Preview and both versions of Tomb Of Dracula. Her solo series was written by Steve Gerber and mostly drawn by Bob Brown, along with a variety of inkers, and although it appeared willy-nilly, it's well worth seeking out, and would look nice in an upmarket trade.
Introduced fully in the above one-off Giant, she was sort of a vampire and sort of a succubus, having possessed the body of Irish colleen Angel O' Hara, possibly one of the unluckiest heroines in comics' history.

Shortly after her brutish father accidently murders her new husband, Angel is taken over by Lilith who announces herself as the Angel Of Death, and proves her point by sinking her fangs into dear old Dad.
Lilith is a mystically created vampire, who isn't affected by the sun or the crucifix, and no matter how many times she's killed, she can always be reborn in the body of 'an innocent who wishes death to her father', which is handy.

Relocating Angel from Northern Ireland to New York, Lilith also extends her mad-on to all male chauvinist pigs, and then inexplicaably makes Angel hitch up with Martin Gold, a whiny, self-obsessed man-child who's the absolute epitome of the '70's 'me' generation.
Martin is a struggling writer, who won't betray his artistic principles by getting a job and helping out his by now pregnant girlfriend, and it's astounding that Lilith doesn't crack his neck on sight.

But that's not where Gerber is going with this. It would've been all too easy to just have Lilith chased around New York by another team of vampire hunters like Quincy Harker's in TOD, but she's a much more complex character, is our girl.

Sometimes heroic, sometimes unspeakably villainous, she's a genuinely great character in Gerber's hands, the epitome of the strong, independent woman who can't help falling for douchbags.
Here's Steve with Gene Colan & Tony DeZuniga on my favourite story of the run, from Marvel Preview, it's Death By Disco!

Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love

Another genre that got big play in the Bronze Age, and that went almost completely ignored by our gang, was that of Gothic Romance novels, then dominating the shelves of supermarkets everywhere.
Marvel had half a go at it, with Gothic Tales Of Love, a text and illustration magazine that lasted only three issues, but DC initially went at it full tilt, with The Dark Mansion Of Forbidden Love.
DC, of course, were old hands at both romance and mystery titles, and had really sown up comics-code approved horror with House Of Mystery, House Of The Secrets & The Witching Hour, so female centred gothic wasn't that much of a leap.
Each issue of DMOFL presented a complete 'novel-length' tale of romance and mystery, and though it's slightly churlish to say that all genre tropes were fully in place, ( spooky house, handsome brooding male lead, terrified but still plucky female lead ) it's how they played out that makes them fun. Besides, what genre doesn't have it's own cliches.

Dark Mansion didn't last long, unfortunately, for some reason failing to find an audience, and was transformed into the more anthology themed, and less romantic Forbidden Tales Of Dark Mansion.
That was good too, but it's a shame this didn't work, as these are nice little mystery mementoes of a simpler, and more varied, time in comics.
The first issue is written in part by Dorothy Woolfolk, a fascinating character who was an editor at DC, Timely and EC, and who sort of invented Kryptonite, amongst her other accomplishments.
It's drawn by Tony Dezuniga, and it might just be one of the best things he ever did, being beautiful and atmospheric and superbly spooky.
Settle down in front of the fire, pour a glass of wine, and indulge.