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Adventures into the Unknown #51

American Comics Group · Series began 1948 · January 1954

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Dates

Cover date: January 1954
Pages: 36

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Harry Lazarus, Bob Forgione, Charles Nicholas, Ray Thompson, Ken Landauinks: Harry Lazarus, Bob Forgione, Ray Thompson, Ken Landauletters: Ed Hamilton, Ben Odascript: Richard Hughes

Stories

Nightmare · 8 pages
Harry, a down on his luck writer, goes to a pawn shop where he is shown the creatures that take the people guilty of the seven deadly sins. He uses the experience to write more stories which are bought by his publisher.
Death Has Four Fingers · 1 pages
The House That Was! · 6 pages
Gil Hasson meets a lovely local girl in a mansion in a part of town that the locals claim is nothing but ruins.
Death Mask! · 4 pages
An old lady warns Sam of the fate that awaits him, unless he pays her to change the face of the sand sculpture she has made showing his death.
The Monster! · 6 pages
Ralph has created life, a mud-like ooze that craves live flesh. When his friend Stan tries to destroy the ooze, Ralph feeds him to the monster.

Reprinted in

Collected Works: Adventures into the Unknown (2011), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Strange Experiment (1983), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010)