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Issue: Adventures into the Unknown #53 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1954
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Issues: #53 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)
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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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The Wolpire

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Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagFour Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s #[nn] [unnamed variant] published September 2010
as Adventures into the Unknown #53 Cover [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: TrueVision cover.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Come on, buddy, quit being a bag-of-bones weakling like I was
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Ad for Jowett Institute of Physical Training.
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The Haunted Hunchback

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Quadro; Denise; Pierre
Synopsis: A witch gives an ugly hunchback the gift of one night of happiness.
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Pages: 6
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Get Shop-Method Home Training

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Disclose Notes: Ad for National Schools training courses.
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The Haunted Stradivarius

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Character(s): Gilbert Henderson; Koenig
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The Wolpire

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Count Orabal; Pat Mitchell; Barbara Mitchell
Synopsis: Pat saves Barbara from the Wolpire, a creature half werewolf and half vampire.
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In Content Item: FlagAmerica's Greatest Comics #2 published January 2002
as The Wolpire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Gripping Thrills of a Lifetime!

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Feature(s): Out of the Night
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Out of the Night magazine.
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Complete Artist's Set

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Disclose Notes: Ad for a set of paints. Smith Bros.
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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The Head Man

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Baron Kroger; Herr Schwill
Synopsis: The unscrupulous dealer Herr Schwill is obsessed to find out what the wealthy Baron Kroger is collecting. It turns out (much to his chagrin) that its human heads.
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Be Lucky in Love!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for a course on how to write love letters. Plaza Book Co.
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Mardo Sales Corp.

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Death from the Depths

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Jones; Havis; Chito
Synopsis: A strange island erupts from the ocean. While inspecting it, Jones and Havis accidentally bring the evil beings that used to live on the island back to life.
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Draw the First Day

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Disclose Notes: Ad for a drawing aid. Norton Products
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Now You Can Fly a Real Jet Plane!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: The Jetex Javelin is a colorful, sleek-looking 14 inches model jet plane.
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I Will Train You at Home for Good Pay Jobs in Radio-Television

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Fix Any Car in a Jiffy

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Motor Book Dept.

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