This'll probably run long, because it ends up depending on your definitions (sorry). And yeah, like Darkmark, my first instinct was to point out that both companies have published each of these characters as well as characters that are direct modernizations of same.
The literary Dracula is an upper-class plague carrier; he's got cash and status, but spoils everything he touches. To me, that screams Luthor and Magneto.
Shelley's Frankenstein is an abused child lashing out without thinking of the consequences (and finally just wants to be alone), who sounds like the Joker (and Batman, actually) on the DC side and...uhm...like, everybody at Marvel, most weeks, though I know at least one writer actually inserted that very backstory into the Hulk.
Werewolves, normal people who become destructive? There are probably too many to list, since it's become a villainous archetype that every hero seems to grab, Man-Bat being the most obvious. I'd also include "infecting" villains like Starro, who are essentially using "human shields" against the heroes.
Classic mummies were actually sort of like the Greek Oracle, so take your pick of any dedicated information soruce. The movie-ish version that curses people so they eventually get killed by a dude wrapped in toilet paper...? I've got nothing, probably because it doesn't lend itself well to the medium, though I suppose that any bounty hunters might qualify--they take the contract and follow the target. So...Deathstroke? Yeah, he's about that exciting.
The Mr. Hyde types aren't just chemically-based, they ideally should be characters who are apathetic unless under the influence of a (probably addictive) drug (or other source). Hourman's modernizations are probably perfect examples, though I'm sure there are many others.
If the Robin Hood types are those who are violently trying to change the world order because they've been punished by government oppression, that'd be the X-Men's core principle, no? DC has fewer of those prominent, though Oracle may qualify, depending on how you view her.
I hope that's of some use, at least.
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