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''Adventures Into the Unknown'' was an American
comic-book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics 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 cha ...
, 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
Frank Belknap Long Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known ...
with art by Fred 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's seminal gothic novel ''
The Castle of Otranto ''The Castle of Otranto'' is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – ''A Gothic Story''. Se ...
'', 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) ()


See also

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Horror comics Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction. In the US market, horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, when concern over content and the ...


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1948 comics debuts 1967 comics endings Comics magazines published in the United States Defunct American comics Horror comics Golden Age comics titles Magazines established in 1948 Magazines disestablished in 1967 American Comics Group titles {{Horror-stub