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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown Archives #2
Publication Date: March 2013
 
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Books
On Sale Date: 02/27/2013
Volume: none
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781616550455
UPC/EAN: 978161655045554999
Price: $54.99 CAD
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Content Items: 65 (29 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Philip R. Simon
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: Collected Editions
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Under Forbidden Covers, Part 2

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Bruce Jones
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adventure
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She Dared the Unknown

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Mr. Dalton; Scarlett Dalton; Hugh Merritt; Thomas Derry; Guy Flint
In the seventeenth century, Scarlett Dalton finds a weird figurine that is possessed by a spirit who gives her supernatural powers, but she is betrayed by her frightened fiance and burned as a witch.
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Spirit of Frankenstein [Part 1]

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Charles Sultan
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Dr. Daniel Warren (nuclear scientist); Marcia Duncan (Warren's fiancee); Professor Lambert Pardway (villain, Warren's lab assistant, death)
Dr. Warren succeeds in inventing a plastic skin that looks and feels like living tissue, and decides to create a radio-controlled synthetic man coated with the substance over a bullet-proof steel frame. But Warren's assistant is jealous and contrives to add his own touch to the synthetic man...a brain...his own brain, that will give him a measure of fame that he feels he deserves and control over the creature.
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The Blonde Witch of the Swamp

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Paul Williams; Bob Hanson; Barbara Hanson
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The Town from Beyond

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John Gregg; Gretchen Vanvelt
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The Ghostly Crew

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Elias Fragg
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Let's Talk It Over!
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Now at Last You, Too, Can Make Your Own Greeting Cards

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South Sea Superstitions

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Strange Spirits
The Bwaga; The Tauva; The Tokway; The Yoyova
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The Spectral Singer

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George Hastings; Alicia Bradwell; Mr. Hughes; Aunt Gertrude
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Ugly Blackheads Out in Seconds with Vacutex

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Now You Can Have Daring Newest Look Beauty ...

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Bat by Night

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Robert Brice
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Professor Gollet; George Tellier; Briot; Jeanne Calleau
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Condemned-- To Live!

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Jon Blummer
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Juan Delbourgo; Otis Kendall; Father Ramon; Alice Kendall
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Bewitched Bali

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Paul Gattuso
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Strange Spirits
Durga; The Buta; The Leyaks; Rangda
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The Sands of the Desert

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Benson; Collins
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Spirit of Frankenstein [Part 2]

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Charlie Sultan
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Dan Warren; Marcia; Dr. Daggett; Professor Marsden
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2nd in series. First line: "That creature still frightens me Dan!"
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The Case of the Malignant Mummy

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John Celardo
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True Ghosts of History
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Let's Talk It Over!
Gather 'round, all you Adventures Into the Unknown fans...
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Includes header by Dan Gordon from earlier issue. Letters from R. I. Flanagan (Graeagle, Cal.) and David Harfeld (Baltimore, Maryland).
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Journey into the Unknown

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Lynneal H. Diamond (credited)
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Bill Sauvage; Roderigo; Manalora
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Grand prize contest winning story was won by Lynneal Hyer Diamond (1917 - 1983) who lived in Mallory, NY at the time she won the contest. This is her only known comic book story.
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The Devil's Disciple

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Hester Prince; Barbara; Satan; Wayne Morse; Judy; Hester Prentiss
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New Sensation! The Hubba-Hubba Wallet

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Let's Go, Pal! I'll Prove I Can Make You an All-Round He-Man

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Fun! Fun ..and More Fun!

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The Swami's Secret

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Swami Heshug; Bill Carlton; Trudy Roland; "Cat" Harris
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Ghost Mother

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text story; 2nd place contest winner
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The Ape Demon

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Dr. Vance; Link; Jean
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The Mummy's Cloth

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Johnny Craig
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Dick; Tom Winber; Sesostris; George Waverly
A piece of cloth from an Egyptian mummy brings doom wherever it goes.
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Timeless Is the Night

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Michael Everett; Michael Everett III
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Drums of the Undead

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Sheila; Bill; Erzulie Bocor; Dr. Wenrod
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Letters from Fred W. Goldstein, James Parry, and David Roggensach.
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Something New--- Something Different!

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The World beyond the Mirror

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Alice
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The Case of the Roman Curse

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Christopher Fenn; Alf; Pamela Hogarth; Penny; Marcus
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Announcing Something New .. Something Different!

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You Can Choose America's Smartest Cottons

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Announcing... Double-Barreled Dynamite!

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The Evil Ones!

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Mary; George Bailey; Bud Palmer
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The Ghost from Algol

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Ken; Nancy; Terry
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Letters from Lynneal H. Diamond, Nelson Bridwell, and A. R. Polcari.
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Spirit of Frankenstein [Part 3]

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Charlie Sultan
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Dan Warren; Marcia; Professor Pardway; Dr. Enslow
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The Little Fellah

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The Sargasso Specter

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Cora Bryce; Neil; Spike
Cora Bryce predicts the next appearance of the Sargasso Sea, the graveyard of lost ships, but it's not easy to plunder their treasures due to the Sargasso Specter.
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Send Secret Signals

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The Man Who Went to the Devil

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The Devil; Wendy; Karen; Ted Harper
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Now You Can Be the Queen of the Rink!

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Small Bust

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Our Biggest Bulb Bargain

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Silver Streak Archives

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Blackjacked and Pistol-Whipped

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Crime Does not Pay

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Dark Horse Archives

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Adventures into the Unknown

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Adventures into the Unknown

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