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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown #2
Publication Date: January 1990
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagA-Plus Comics
Brand: A+ ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Sword In Stone Productions
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.95 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roger Broughton
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Slick cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Reprinted From7
Disclose Images1
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting)
Inker(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting)
Colorist(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: (c) 1965 Frazetta. Similar to Frazetta's painting for the Bantam book "Tomorrow Midnight", a collection in June 1966 of Ray Bradbury's EC stories.
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A+ Comics Presents March 1991

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ?; Steve Ditko
Inker(s): ?; Steve Ditko
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A+ Comics Presents
Character(s): Herbie
First Line: Herbie Wants You!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Herbie t-shirts, Mutant Monsters Attack #1, and Propaganda Comics #1. Indicia.
Inside front cover.
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Hell House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill
Penciller(s): Sanho Kim
Inker(s): Sanho Kim
Letterer(s): Sanho Kim
Editor(s): George Wildman (original)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dr. Graves
Character(s): Dr. Graves (host); Dr. Lewis Curshaw; Coleman Curshaw (ghost); Nancy Curshaw
Synopsis: Lewis and Nancy Curshaw have to spend one night in the haunted Curshaw mansion to collect a large inheritance.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves #36 published January 1973
was Hell House [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: D-3527
Disclose Notes: Current editor "Roge" replaces that of original editor.
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To My Pal Joey ...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Kurato Osaki]
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Sal Trapani
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Editor(s): Richard Hughes (original editor)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUnknown Worlds #49 published August 1966
was To My Pal Joey... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Fuhrenbauer's Fake Folks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Shane O'Shea]
Penciller(s): Dick Beck
Inker(s): Tom Hickey
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Editor(s): Richard Hughes (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into the Unknown #174 published August 1967
was Fuhrenbauer's Fake Folks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Who?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes
Penciller(s): Ogden Whitney
Inker(s): Ogden Whitney
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Herbie
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from ?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Fatal Call!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kenneth Landau (signed)
Inker(s): Kenneth Landau (signed)
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Subject Matter
Character(s): ? (host)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Has an undertaker host to introduce story. "Hosts" were popular in horror comics of the 1950s through 1970s, made most famous by EC. Apparently originally in suspense and horror radio shows.
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Land Of The Living Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson; Roy Krenkel [as Roy G. Williams] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Williamson; Roy Krenkel [as Roy G. Williams] (signed)
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton ?
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagForbidden Worlds #5 published March 1952
was Land of the Living Dead [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Williamson apparently drew the layouts and figures, and Krenkel penciled and inked most of the non-figures.
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Leaping Lizards

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting, signed)
Inker(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting, signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Schanes Products & Services
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: B&W ad for a limited edition print (500 copies) of Frazetta's "Leapin' Lizards", from the cover of L. Ron Hubbard's "Writers of the Future - Volume VI" (1990). Price is $2750.
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Seekers of Evil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Gill
Penciller(s): Pete Morisi [as PAlll] (signed)
Inker(s): Pete Morisi [as PAlll] (signed)
Letterer(s): Pete Morisi
Editor(s): George Wildman (original)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Bones (host); Baron Wolfgang Von Brummer; Anna; Greta
Synopsis: Baron Von Brummer and his friends play at worshiping Satan, but when they cross an old witch and her friends who really worship Satan they find out the difference.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagGhost Manor #13 published July 1973
was Seekers of Evil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagGhost Manor #13 published July 1973
was Seekers of Evil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: D3765
Disclose Notes: Host pictured by Steve Ditko, reprinted from earlier appearance
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The Ancient Idol

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Hughes [as Curt Carpenter]
Penciller(s): John Rosenberger
Inker(s): John Rosenberger
Letterer(s): Ed Hamilton
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagUnknown Worlds #1 published August 1960
was The Ancient Idol [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Story has byline for writer, but not for artist.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): Tom Christopher; Wally Wood; ?
Inker(s): Tom Christopher; Wally Wood; ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A+ Comics Presents
Character(s): Atomic Mouse; Herbie
First Line: Adventures of Dr. Graves #1
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Adventures of Dr. Graves (A- Plus Comics, 1991 Series) #1 (1991); Hot 'N Cold Heroes (A-Plus Comics, 1991 Series) #3 (not published?); Atomic Mouse (A-Plus Comics, 1990 Series) #2 (not published?); War (A-Plus Comics, 1991 Series) #1 (1991); Herbie (A-Plus Comics, 1990 Series) #4 (1991). Black & White cover thumbnails.
Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting, signed)
Inker(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting, signed)
Colorist(s): Frank Frazetta [as Frazetta] (painting, signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Frank Frazetta; Frazetta Museum
First Line: Feel the Power of Frazetta!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad announces availability of Frazetta limited prints and posters through the Frazetta Museum.
Back cover.

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