Saw this funny panel online recently and it got me thinking:



What if Dracula actually was an Avenger at some point? The Avengers have a long history of taking in reformed villains, so it seems possible that they might have let Dracula join at some point. Which line-up would have been most likely to include him? How would he fare in a fight against the various Avengers villains faced by that line-up?

The Tomb of Dracula comic started right around the time of the Kree-Skrull War, so Dracula wouldn't have joined the Avengers at that point. And he spent the next several years on the run from vampire hunters, right up until the time when Scarlet Witch was briefly controlled by Chthon in Avengers 187. That was shortly after Henry Peter Gyrich forced the Avengers to limit their line-up to seven members for a while. It wasn't until issue #211 that the Avengers held their next membership drive and recruited Tigra. Recruiting a vampire right around the same time as a pseudo-lycanthrope doesn't seem like a big stretch. Their next several opponents included Yellowjacket, Ghost Rider, Molecule Man, and Moondragon, and it seems like Drac could have helped against any of those except Molecule Man.

One more image: