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.[1] Published by the American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (cover-dated Fall 1948 - Aug. 1967).[2]

Adventures Into the Unknown
Adventures into the Unknown #1 (Fall 1948).
Cover art by Edvard Moritz
Publication information
PublisherAmerican Comics Group
Publication dateFall 1948-August 1967
No. of issues174

The first issue, written by Frank Belknap Long with art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured the stories "The Werewolf Strikes", "The Living Ghost", "It Walked By Night" and "Haunted House".[3] 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.[2]

Unlike many American horror comics of the Golden Age, it weathered the public criticism of the early 1950s and survived the aftermath of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of April and June 1954 when the comics industry attempted self-regulation with a highly restrictive Comics Code.

Collected editions
  • ACG Collected Works: Adventures into the Unknown, collects issues 1–83 (PS Artbooks)
    • Volume 1 (2011) (ISBN 978-1-848632-17-2) through Volume 21 (2020) (ISBN 978-1-78636-652-8)
  • Dark Horse Archives: Adventures into the Unknown!, collects issues 1–16 (Dark Horse)
    • Volume 1 (2012) (ISBN 1-59582-930-X) through Volume 4 (2015) (ISBN 1-61655-623-4)

See also

References
  1. Goulart, Ron (1986). Great American Comic Books. Contemporary Books : Chicago, Illinois. p. 256. ISBN 0-8092-5045-4.
  2. Adventures Into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 Series) at the Grand Comics Database
  3. Schelly, William (2013). American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 29. ISBN 9781605490540.


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