
Vlad The Impaler was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vlad was an evil man who murdered thousands of people by impaling them on wooden stakes, leaving many in full view of the public and his opponents as a warning of impending doom for any who attempted to get in his way. Vlad The Impaler the graphic novel was published in '09 by comic veterans Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon.