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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 # View Issue Images Icon Volume Publication Date Pages Content Items
#1 View Issue Images Icon 2 none January 1948 52 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#2 View Issue Images Icon 2 none December 1948 52 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#3 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none February 1949 52 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
#4 View Issue Images Icon none April 1949 52 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#5 View Issue Images Icon 2 none June 1949 52 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#6 View Issue Images Icon 2 none August 1949 52 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)
#7 View Issue Images Icon none October 1949 52 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#8 View Issue Images Icon none December 1949 52 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#9 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none February 1950 52 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
#10 View Issue Images Icon none April 1950 52 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#11 View Issue Images Icon none June 1950 52 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
#12 View Issue Images Icon none August 1950 52 15 (11 stories, 1 cover)
#13 View Issue Images Icon none October 1950 52 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#14 View Issue Images Icon none December 1950 52 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#15 View Issue Images Icon none January 1951 52 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#16 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none February 1951 52 13 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#17 View Issue Images Icon none March 1951 52 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#18 View Issue Images Icon none April 1951 52 13 (11 stories, 1 cover)
#19 View Issue Images Icon 2 none May 1951 52 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#20 View Issue Images Icon none June 1951 52 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#21 View Issue Images Icon none July 1951 52 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#22 View Issue Images Icon none August 1951 52 12 (10 stories, 1 cover)
#23 View Issue Images Icon none September 1951 52 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#24 View Issue Images Icon none October 1951 52 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#25 View Issue Images Icon none November 1951 52 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#26 View Issue Images Icon none December 1951 52 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#27 View Issue Images Icon none January 1952 52 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
#28 View Issue Images Icon none February 1952 52 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#29 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1952 52 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#30 View Issue Images Icon none April 1952 52 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#31 View Issue Images Icon none May 1952 52 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#32 View Issue Images Icon none June 1952 52 11 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#33 View Issue Images Icon none July 1952 52 12 (9 stories, 1 cover)
#34 View Issue Images Icon none August 1952 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#35 View Issue Images Icon none September 1952 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#36 View Issue Images Icon none October 1952 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#37 View Issue Images Icon none November 1952 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#38 View Issue Images Icon none December 1952 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#39 View Issue Images Icon none January 1953 36 15 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#40 View Issue Images Icon none February 1953 36 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#41 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#42 View Issue Images Icon none April 1953 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#43 View Issue Images Icon none May 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#44 View Issue Images Icon none June 1953 36 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#45 View Issue Images Icon none July 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#46 View Issue Images Icon none August 1953 36 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#47 View Issue Images Icon none September 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#48 View Issue Images Icon none October 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#49 View Issue Images Icon none November 1953 36 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#50 View Issue Images Icon none December 1953 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#51 View Issue Images Icon none January 1954 36 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#52 View Issue Images Icon none February 1954 36 17 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#53 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1954 36 18 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#54 View Issue Images Icon none April 1954 36 16 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#55 View Issue Images Icon none May 1954 36 13 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#56 View Issue Images Icon none June 1954 36 13 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#57 View Issue Images Icon none July 1954 36 14 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#58 View Issue Images Icon none August 1954 36 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
#59 View Issue Images Icon none September 1954 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#60 View Issue Images Icon none November 1954 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#61 View Issue Images Icon none January 1955 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#62 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1955 36 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#63 View Issue Images Icon none May 1955 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#64 View Issue Images Icon none July 1955 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#65 View Issue Images Icon none August 1955 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#66 View Issue Images Icon none September 1955 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#67 View Issue Images Icon none October 1955 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#68 View Issue Images Icon none November 1955 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#69 View Issue Images Icon none December 1955 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#70 View Issue Images Icon none January 1956 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#71 View Issue Images Icon none February 1956 36 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
#72 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1956 36 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#73 View Issue Images Icon none May 1956 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#74 View Issue Images Icon none July 1956 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#75 View Issue Images Icon none August 1956 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#76 View Issue Images Icon none September 1956 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#77 View Issue Images Icon none October 1956 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#78 View Issue Images Icon none November 1956 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#79 View Issue Images Icon none December 1956 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#80 View Issue Images Icon none January 1957 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#81 View Issue Images Icon none February 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#82 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1957 36 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#83 View Issue Images Icon none April 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#84 View Issue Images Icon none May 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#85 View Issue Images Icon none June 1957 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#86 View Issue Images Icon none July 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#87 View Issue Images Icon none August 1957 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#88 View Issue Images Icon none September 1957 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#89 View Issue Images Icon none October 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#90 View Issue Images Icon none November 1957 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#91 View Issue Images Icon none December 1957 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#92 View Issue Images Icon none January 1958 36 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#93 View Issue Images Icon none February 1958 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#94 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none March 1958 36 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
#95 View Issue Images Icon none April 1958 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#96 View Issue Images Icon none May 1958 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#97 View Issue Images Icon none June 1958 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#98 View Issue Images Icon none July 1958 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
#99 View Issue Images Icon none August 1958 36 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
#100 View Issue Images Icon 1/1 none September 1958 36 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)

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