''Adventures Into the Unknown'' was an American

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magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing

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title. Published by the

American Comics Group American Comics Group (ACG) was an American comic book publisher started in 1939 and existing under the ACG name from 1943 to 1967. It published the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title, ''Adventures into the Unknown''. ACG's best-known ch ...

, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (

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d Fall 1948 - Aug. 1967).''Adventures Into the Unknown'' (American Comics Group, 1948 Series)
at the

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The first issue, written by

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with art by

Fred Guardineer Frederick B. Guardineer (October 3, 1913 – September 13, 2002)Frederick B. Guardineer

and others, featured the stories "The Werewolf Stalks", "The Living Ghost", "It Walked By Night" and "Haunted House". It also included a seven-page abridged adaptation of

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

's seminal

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'', by an unknown writer and artist, Al Ulmer.

Collected editions

* ''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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