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'''''Adventures Into the Unknown''''' was an American [[comic-book]] magazine series best known as the medium's first ongoing [[horror-comics]] title.<ref name=goulart256>{{cite book |title=Great American Comic Books |last=Goulart |first=Ron |authorlink=Ron Goulart |publisher=Contemporary Books : [[Chicago, Illinois]] |year=1986 |isbn=0-8092-5045-4 |pages=256}}</ref> Published by the [[American Comics Group]], initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues ([[cover-date]]d Fall 1948 – Aug. 1967).<ref name=gcd>[http://www.comics.org/series/598/ ''Adventures Into the Unknown'' (American Comics Group, 1948 Series)] at the [[Grand Comics Database]]</ref>

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".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schelly |first1=William |title=American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s |date=2013 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=9781605490540 |page=29}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=gcd />

==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==

* [[Horror comics]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.comicvine.com/adventures-into-the-unknown/49-25279/?page=9 ''Adventures Into the Unknown'' covers]

[[Category:1948 comics debuts]]
[[Category:1967 comics endings]]
[[Category:Comics magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:Defunct American comics]]
[[Category:Horror comics]]
[[Category:Golden Age comics titles]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1948]]
[[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1967]]
[[Category:American Comics Group titles]]


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