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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown #51 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1954
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Issues: #51 of 174 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group
Brand: American Comics Group ACGView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Best Syndicated Features, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Hughes [as Richard E. Hughes]
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: TrueVision cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): View Cope Co.
First Line: Direct from Hollywood!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a book of fairy tales and a plastic viewer that makes the characters appear to be in 3-D.
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Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Inker(s): Harry Lazarus (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Williams; Gilda Williams
Synopsis: Harry, a down on his luck writer, goes to a pawn shop where he is shown the creatures that take the people guilty of the seven deadly sins. He uses the experience to write more stories which are bought by his publisher.
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In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Nightmare [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story is produced in "TrueVision" a process that includes black borders and zipatone to create a three dimensional effect without glasses.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Schools
First Line: Get Shop-Method Home Training
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a radio/tv or auto repair school program.
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Death Has Four Fingers

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Baron Cigani; Jan Manorik
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Pages: 1
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The House That Was!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Forgione (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cassandra Fourier; Gil Hasson; Mr. Kent; Henri Fourier; Madeline Fourier
Synopsis: Gil Hasson meets a lovely local girl in a mansion in a part of town that the locals claim is nothing but ruins.
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Pages: 6
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Rudolph Field
First Line: Could you use $1,000,000?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a pocket gym.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Let's Talk It Over!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Hughes talks about the 3-D type technique employee in the opening story and asks for reader feedback.

Letters from M. Friesen, Thomas Waitkevicius, and Philip Chase.
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Death Mask!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Sam Denton; Frank
Synopsis: An old lady warns Sam of the fate that awaits him, unless he pays her to change the face of the sand sculpture she has made showing his death.
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Pages: 4
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Motor Book Dept.
First Line: Now YOU can be a "Cracker-Jack" at auto repairs!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for auto repair manuals.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Inker(s): Ray Thompson [as Ray T.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Dubble Bubble Gum
First Line: Now that we are at the North Pole...
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Pages: 0.5
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Rudolph Field
First Line: New! Fast-action pro baseball game
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for a toy baseball game.
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The Monster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Stan; Ralph; Liz
Synopsis: Ralph has created life, a mud-like ooze that craves live flesh. When his friend Stan tries to destroy the ooze, Ralph feeds him to the monster.
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Pages: 6
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: For recommended reading it's the American Comics Group
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Smith Bros. Camera
First Line: Get a real candid camera
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Offer from Smith Brothers Cough Drops for a camera for fifty cents and an empty box of cough drops.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo); ?
Inker(s): ? (photo); ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Norton Products
First Line: Draw Any Person in One Minute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a "Magic Art Reproducer".
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Jowett Institute of Physical Training
First Line: In 10 Minutes of Fun a Day I Changed Myself...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for body building program from Jowett Institute of Physical Training. On inside of back cover of comic.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): Daisy Manufacturing Company
Character(s): Red Ryder
First Line: Which Daisy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a Red Ryder BB gun. Back cover.

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