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Issue: Atlas Comics Library #1
Publication Date: November 2023
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
Title: Adventures Into Terror
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/31/2023
Volume:
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781683968719
UPC/EAN: 978168396871953499
Price: $34.99 USD
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Content Items: 48 (37 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dr. Michael Dean (editor) (credited); Allen Harvey (restoration) (credited); C. Hwang (restoration) (credited); Jeremy West (manager, Licensed Publishing for Marvel) (credited)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.75" x 11.25"
Paper Stock: bond
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Welcome to Adventures into Terror Vol. 1

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The Thing in the Cave!

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Genres: horror
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The Monster Awakes

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: 7310
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The Unknown Partner

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: 7553
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The Ant World

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 7644
Disclose Notes: Rule inks, possibly aided by George Klein, per Nick Caputo, January 2020. Previous indexer credited Sekowsky.
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The Man Who Looked at Death

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: 7309
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Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!

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The Stranger

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist invents a formula for eternal life, but it doesn't work and produces monsters instead.
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Job Number: 7773
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The Creeping Vine

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: 7739
Disclose Notes: A story motif similar to "Little Shop of Horrors"
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No Escape

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A poor man who shares identical looks with a rich man murders his butler and acquires his job after donning a disguise in order to study the mannerisms of the wealthy man. After completing his study, he murders the wealthy man and takes his place. He finds out that the man had a history of mental imbalance after his cousin and lawyer commit him to an insane asylum.
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Job Number: 7762
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The Storm

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: People can only leave the house of terrors upon the hill when new victims seek shelter from the storm in order to replace them.
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Job Number: 7797
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I Stalk by Night!/House of Horror!/Could the Girl I Loved Really Be One of the Living Dead?/Imagine Being Trapped in a Lonely Graveyard I Was!

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I Stalk by Night!

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Genres: horror
First Line: W-who are you? W-what do you want of me?
Synopsis: When a judge dons a pair of black gloves that belonged to a serial killer, he finds that he cannot remove them and is forced to commit murder.
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Job Number: 7972
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House of Horror

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Genres: horror
First Line: Legends of werewolves are as old as time!
Synopsis: A man traveling through the forest comes upon a house occupied by werewolves.
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Pages: 4
Job Number: 7859
Disclose Notes: Klein inks per Nick Caputo, January 2020. Previous indexer credited Colan.
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The Isle of No Return

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: SL-5231
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Murder at Midnight!

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Genres: horror
First Line: There's the first stroke of midnight! In a few seconds I'll see what goes on in a cemetery at night!
Synopsis: A grave-digger ladies' man is pursued by the spirits of the women he drove to suicide by his love 'em and leave 'em ways.
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Job Number: 7977
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The Living Dead

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First Line: Can the dead live again? Can they come back from the howling, ghoul-ridden darkness of eternity and plague the living?
Synopsis: A man drains the blood of young women and uses the hormones to prolong his life.
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Job Number: 7834
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The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!

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The Brain!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A warped Nazi scientist, sentenced to death, has an assistant dig up his body, remove his head and keep it alive in his laboratory. He makes plans for world domination.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 8168
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Hands of Murder

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Synopsis: A young woman fears that her late sister has come back from the grave to kill her.
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The Torture Room

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Siegfried Mauller (Nazi commandant of concentration camp)
Synopsis: The Nazi commander of a concentration camp is captured by the prisoners and placed in their secret torture room.
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Job Number: 8165
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Vampire Brats

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Synopsis: A nurse gets a job at an infants' home where all the babies seem just a little different.
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Job Number: 8190
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The Thing in the Water

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Synopsis: A fish enthusiast encounters a menacing "water monster" from Atlantis when he brings home a new breed of guppies.
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Job Number: 7881
Disclose Notes: The monster explains that Atlanteans mutated from humans to water creatures when their continent sank beneath the sea.
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Hitch-Hiker!/Find Me!/The Eye of Doom!/The Man Who Was Death!

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Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Sidebar art by Don Rico (taken from interior panel), Basil Wolverton and (possibly) Burgos. Woman's face by Joe Maneely.
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The Man Who Was Death!

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Job Number: 8286
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Find Me!

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Genres: horror
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Pages: 3
Job Number: 8507
Disclose Notes: Rule inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Rico.
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The Clock Strikes!

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The Hitchhiker

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Job Number: 8363
Disclose Notes: Per Nick Caputo: "This looks like a number of hands were involved. Page 2 appears to be Reinman pencils. Pages 3 and 4 appear to be Sol Brodsky pencils with an unknown inker throughout."
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The Hand

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Job Number: 8428
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Dark Room

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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Possible Brodsky Pencils and Rule inks per atlastales.com and Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Carl Burgos.

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
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The Return of the Brain

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: More adventures of the evil head that lives and moves without the benefit of a body.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 8676
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You Can't Escape

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Breaking the fourth wall a Vampire addresses the reader, his intended victim. He tells how he first encountered his victim-to-be when he asked for help and was rebuffed. The vampire followed the reader, discovering where he lived and what comics he liked to buy. He spent considerable money printing up a custom copy of Adventures into Terror to place on the newsstand. The last panel of the story shows the vampire with claws extended and fangs bared - daring you to look over your shoulder.
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Job Number: 8596
Disclose Notes: Possible Molno pencils and Alascia inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Joe Shuster on pencils and inks.
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The Dark Room!

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Synopsis: A boy goes to live with his uncle who, unknown to the boy, practices black magic. The boy is saved from evil by the misshapen manservant.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Die!

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Synopsis: A phony medium unintentionally brings back the spirit of a murderess.
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Job Number: 8678
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Where Monsters Dwell!

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The Thing That Grew!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Joshua Borglum; Blakely
Synopsis: Professor Borglum creates a new life when his blood is accidentally mixed with an experiment. When it continues to grow and kill people for their blood he tries to find a way to kill it.
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Job Number: 8793
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Going... Down!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: The elevator operator of a hotel considers committing a theft until he dreams of going to Hell.
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Job Number: 9139?
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The Two Were Alone!

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Synopsis: A man becomes a victim of a cross-dressing serial killer.
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Job Number: 9016
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Where Monsters Dwell

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist uses a projector that banishes people he dislikes to another world. A light indicates where the beam connects both worlds and one of the men returns. He shoves the scientist through the aperture where he is killed by the natives. Other victims rush forward hoping to escape but the man switches off the device. The story ends with the man uncertain what to do: turn the beam on and rescue the other victims which might allow the attackers to pour through, or shut it off and condemn them to die. He addresses the reader directly, asking "What would you do?"
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Job Number: 8773
Disclose Notes: Wolverton's splash panel was rejected and replaced by one drawn by an unidentified artist, according to an article in Basil Wolverton's Gateway to Horror #1 (Dark Horse, 1988), which reprinted this story. Speculation as to the artist includes Carl Hubbell, Vern Henkel and Carl Burgos.
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Joe…

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man starts a gag that he has an invisible goon that takes care of his grudges for him, but soon the 'coincidences' rack up...
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Job Number: 9205
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Enter…the Lizard!/You Can Only Die Once!/The Parasite!/The Creatures Who Laugh!

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Enter…the Lizard

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man discovers a type of werelizard that reproduces its kind by injecting humans with a poison in its bite that transforms their bodies.
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Job Number: 9399
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The Parasite

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Genres: horror
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Job Number: 9437
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You Can Only Die Once

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside.
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Job Number: 9411
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The Miracle

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost.
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Job Number: 9338
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The Ones Who Laugh

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Job Number: 9448
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The Creators

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Genres: biography
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