Adventures into the Unknown

Adventures Into the Unknown was an American comic-book magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title.^[1] Published by the American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (cover-dated Fall 1948 – Aug. 1967).^[2]

Adventures Into the Unknown
Adventures into the Unknown #1 (Fall 1948). Cover art by Edvard Moritz
Publication information
Publisher	American Comics Group
Publication date	Fall 1948 – August 1967
No. of issues	174

The first issue, written by Frank Belknap Long with art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured the stories "The Werewolf Stalks", "The Living Ghost", "It Walked By Night" and "Haunted House".^[3] It also included a seven-page abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by an unknown writer and artist, Al Ulmer.^[2]

Collected editions

• ACG Collected Works: Adventures into the Unknown, collects issues 1–83 (PS Artbooks)
  • Volume 1 (2011) (ISBN 978-1-848632-17-2) through Volume 21 (2020) (ISBN 978-1-78636-652-8)
• Dark Horse Archives: Adventures into the Unknown!, collects issues 1–16 (Dark Horse)
  • Volume 1 (2012) (ISBN 1-59582-930-X) through Volume 4 (2015) (ISBN 1-61655-623-4)

See also

• Comics portal
• Speculative fiction/Horror portal

• Horror comics