Adventures into the Unknown
Adventures Into the Unknown was an American comic-book magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title. Published by the American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (cover-dated Fall 1948 – Aug. The first issue, written by Frank Belknap Long with art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured the stories "The Werewolf Stalks", "The Living Ghost", "It Walked By Night" and "Haunted House".
Adventures into the Unknown
Edvard Moritz · " Adventures into the Unknown #1 " at The Grand Comics Database. Retrieved June 9, 2008. · Public domain
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- 1948
- Publisher
- American Comics Group
- Language
- English
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Adventures Into the Unknown was an American comic-book magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title. Published by the American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (cover-dated Fall 1948 – Aug. The first issue, written by Frank Belknap Long with art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured the stories "The Werewolf Stalks", "The Living Ghost", "It Walked By Night" and "Haunted House".
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It also included a seven-page abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by an unknown writer and artist, Al Ulmer.
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• Title — Adventures Into the Unknown • Publisher — American Comics Group • Date — Fall 1948 – August 1967 • Issues — 174 • Sort — Adventures into the Unknown
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• ACG Collected Works: Adventures into the Unknown, collects issues 1–83 (PS Artbooks) • Volume 1 (2011) through Volume 21 (2020) • Dark Horse Archives: Adventures into the Unknown!, collects issues 1–16 (Dark Horse) • Volume 1 (2012) through Volume 4 (2015)
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- 1.Goulart, Ron. Great American Comic Books. Contemporary Books : Chicago, Illinois. 256. 1986. 0-8092-5045-4.
- 2.Adventures Into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 Series) at the Grand Comics Database
- 3.Schelly, William. American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s. TwoMorrows Publishing. 29. 2013. 9781605490540.
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