While going through some of my back issues and reprints I skimmed a few of the old Vulture issues that were published in Amazing Spiderman circa the late 1970's.  Some of these issues featured the second Vulture named Blackie Drago. Drago replaced the original Vulture Adrian Tombes who died of old age. (The original Vulture died of old age a number of times throughout the years only to get better) While Drago was not all that interesting of a character, this story arcs that featured his version of the villain are actually quite well written. In the second story arc, the original Vulture basically hands Drago his ass and Drago retires.  

Out of curiosity, did this character ever appear in any subsequent issues?

While characters have been known to die and rise from the dead with mundane frequency, Drago's retirement was seemingly forever. Honestly, I can not think of any issues past 1967 where Drago appeared as the Vulture.

Does anyone out there know if he appeared as the Vulture in recent history?