HARLEY QUINN #69

BEWARE THE SINISTER TREADS OF COUNT TRUCKULA! Get your garlic, get your fans, get your fainting couches, get your diesel-infused wooden stakes! This is a real jam-packed jamboree of jam bam, thank you ja'ams! First up, we got the long-awaited reunion of me and the love of my life, Poison Ivy! That's right, we've been teasing this out for a long time, and you won't want to miss it! But that's not all! My one-time enemy, now friend, Convoy the Entruckulated Man, has been bitten by a Dracula and transformed into a Count Trucukula! It's up to ya girl, Harley von Hel- Quinn, to stuff a bunch of garlic up his nose and make him sneeze out them fangers or whatever you do with vampiroids! It's a Dracula of a good time, I guarantee it!

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