Marvel’s “Giant-Size” line, on the whole, was pointless. Nearly all the G-S books starred characters who had their own titles (Tigra was the only noteworthy obsession). Most issues featured about 20 pages of new material that was either not-clearly-in-continuity or an irrelevant done-in-one, followed by reprints of stories from 1950s books. And Werewolf’s Giant Size book was even done by the same creative team as the main book–so as a reader you had to know that they’d put the best material in the Werewolf By Night series, and dump inferior work here.
Even the best of the lot, issue #2, which featured Frankenstein, was a pretty big let down.
As you can see from the cover to #3, above, it promised–and delivered–an adventure in Transylvania. What the cover did not promise–and the issue did not deliver–was Dracula. So, big let down. Instead, it’s zombies. And a bear.
Granted, he’s a gypsy bear with armored claws, so that’s pretty rad. But still, Transylvania with no Dracula is a big downer.
But if it’s vamps you want…
Issue #4 has Morbius versus WWBN. That’s cool.
But then issue #5 is the worst of the lot. Werewolf fights a black magic sorcerer.
And with that, the series is cancelled.
Don Perlin on art for all but #5, which has pencils by Yong Montano