Yra, the vampire

Vampire

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 is an Italian comic book

Italian comics

Italian comics are comics made in Italy. They are locally known as fumetto – plural form fumetti – although this latter term is often used in English to describe a specific comic genre . The most popular Italian comics have been translated into many languages...

 erotic character. She was drawn by Leone Frollo

Leone Frollo

Leone Frollo is an Italian comic book artist.Frollo debuted in 1948 with a western called Sui Grandi Laghi . From 1958 to 1968, he worked for London agency Fleetway, doing war stories. After that, until the mid-1980s he did works in several genres, including fantasy and horror, but specially...

 and Rubino Ventura. Yra is a 12-episodes fumetti series published from 1980 to 1981 by Edifumetto

Edifumetto

Edifumetto was an Italian publishing house of comics, founded by Renzo Barbieri.A recent example of their publication is Biancaneve by Leone Frollo and Necron by Magnus of 1981.Some of their titles are vampire-themed:...

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She is shown in first episode innocent young girl, Yra is the only daughter of a couple of humble shepherds. Due to her looks, she gets the unwanted attention of the evil Lord of the Castle, the Dracula

Dracula

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, who sends his guards to kidnap her. The story in later episode unfolds as how she turns in to a vampire by Romilda, an ugly old lesbian

Lesbian

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 witch.

"Yra" is one of many such characters from the Italian 'fumetti

Fumetti

Fumetti is an Italian word which refers to all comics. In English, the term refers specifically to photonovels or photographic comics, a genre of comics illustrated with photographs rather than drawings. Italians call these fotoromanzi...

' tradition. Other figures from the same era, and with similarly violent or erotic preoccupations, include Maghella

Maghella

Maghella is an Italian comic book erotic character. She is a young woman with magic powers. She is a witch. She was created by Dino Leonetti, the famous comic artist with text by Furio Arrasich....

, Lucifera

Lucifera

Lucifera is the eponymous anti-heroine of an Italian comic book popular in the seventies.The 'Lucifera' character is a demoness/succubus dedicated to fighting the forces of Goodness. A frequent visitor to Hell, she also enjoys sending others there to be tormented...

 , Biancaneve

Biancaneve

Biancaneve is an Italian erotic comic book, created in 1972 by Renzo Barbieri and Rubino Ventura and illustrated by Leone Frollo. Fairlie Wayne is the real name of the main character.-Overview:...

, Vartan

Vartan (comics)

Vartan is an Italian comic book created and drawn by Sandro Angiolini , and published in 200 issues between 1969 and 1977 by Furio Viano. Its genre was 'Western' and its main concern was the erotic adventures of its heroine....

, Zora la Vampira, Jacula

Jacula (fumetti)

Jacula was the eponymous vampire in an Italian fumetti title. In common with Zora and Sukia, the series contained strong sexual imagery: together with her vampire husband Carlo Verdier, the predatory Jacula seduced the unwary and corrupted the innocent...

, Sukia

Sukia

For the Californian band, see Sukia .Sukia was a vampire-themed Italian comics series by Renzo Barbieri and Fulvio Bosttoli published by Edifumetto from 1978 to 1986, for a total of 153 albums and 6 extra albums. In the series Sukia faces people or creatures who are trying to do some form of harm...

, Jolanda de Almaviva and Dylan Dog

Dylan Dog

Dylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series featuring an eponymous character created by Tiziano Sclavi for the publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...

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