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CATALOG RECORD

Adventures into the Unknown #78

American Comics Group · Series began 1948 · November 1956

Dates

Cover date
November 1956
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Ogden Whitney, John Rosenbergerinks: Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger

Stories

  • Rosie and Red Russia! · 8 pages

    Russian scientists capture an alien with special powers, but it turns out the alien was studying the scientists just as much as the scientists were studying the alien.

  • Fabulous Animal · 1 pages

    Adam Collier, an archeologist, proves that unicorns existed.

  • The Case of the Vanishing Indian! · 3 pages

    Ed Morris, a rancher, gets into an accident and is saved by the ghost of an Indian with a withered arm.

  • Beware the Ides of March! · 8 pages

    Tony Blake goes through life having accidents on the 15th of March every year, and knows Latin without having been taught it. He becomes a brilliant military strategist and everything he does echoes the life of Julius Caesar.

  • The Second Mrs. Manion! · 4 pages

    On her way to meet Bill Manion, Lady Cynthia Conway gets into a car accident. In England, Cynthia comes out of a coma, certain she was Mrs. Bill Manion and living in Kansas. After five years she slipped into a coma again, but Bill, having received a letter from her, arrives to retrieve her. He insists Cynthia has been with him in Kansas the last five years. She awakes and the pair head home.

  • No. 1 The Broken Mirror · What's Behind That Superstition? · 3 pages

    Dr. Orin Blakely of the Institute of Psychic Research explains the origins of the superstitions surrounding breaking mirrors.

Reprinted in

Uncanny Tales (1963), Unknown Worlds (1960), Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Amazing Stories (1965), Astounding Stories (1966), Forbidden Worlds (1951), Midnight Mystery (1961), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Tales of the Supernatural (1964), PS Artbooks Softee: Adventures into the Unknown (2020)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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