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Series: Adventures into the Unknown Public Domain
Years in Print: 1948 - 1967
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Publisher: FlagAmerican Comics Group Country: Flag United States Language: English Issues: #1 - #174 (174 Issues) Continued From Continued From: none Continued In Continued In: none Disclose Tracking Notes:   Disclose Notes: Adventures Into the Unknown was a series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title. The first two issues, which included art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured horror stories of ghosts, werewolves, haunted houses, killer puppets, and other supernatural beings and locales. The premiere included a seven-page abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by Frank Belknap Long and Al Ulmer.

Unlike many American horror comics of the Golden Age, it weathered the public criticism of the early 1950s and survived the aftermath of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of April and June 1954 when the comics industry attempted self-regulation with a highly restrictive Comics Code.
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Publication Type: Comic Books
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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Issue # Publication Date Pages Content Items Issue Images Count
#1 January 1948 52 14/10/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#2 December 1948 52 9/8/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#3 February 1949 52 11/9/1 Issue Image
#4 April 1949 52 10/7/1 Issue Image
#5 June 1949 52 14/7/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#6 August 1949 52 11/9/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#7 October 1949 52 14/8/1 Issue Image
#8 December 1949 52 8/6/1 Issue Image
#9 February 1950 52 15/11/1 Issue Image
#10 April 1950 52 13/10/1 Issue Image
#11 June 1950 52 13/9/1 Issue Image
#12 August 1950 52 15/11/1 Issue Image
#13 October 1950 52 10/8/1 Issue Image
#14 December 1950 52 11/8/1 Issue Image
#15 January 1951 52 10/8/1 Issue Image
#16 February 1951 52 13/10/1 Issue Image
#17 March 1951 52 12/10/1 Issue Image
#18 April 1951 52 13/11/1 Issue Image
#19 May 1951 52 12/10/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#20 June 1951 52 11/7/1 Issue Image
#21 July 1951 52 20/8/1 Issue Image
#22 August 1951 52 12/10/1 Issue Image
#23 September 1951 52 10/7/1 Issue Image
#24 October 1951 52 11/8/1 Issue Image
#25 November 1951 52 10/8/1 Issue Image

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