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Adventures into the Unknown #1

American Comics Group · Series began 1948 · Fall 1948

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Dates

Cover date: Fall 1948
On sale: 1948
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Ed Moritz, Dan Gordon, Fred Guardineer, King Ward, Max Elkan, Allen Ulmerinks: Ed Moritz, Dan Gordon, Fred Guardineer, King Ward, Max Elkan, Allen Ulmerletters: Ed Hamilton, Dan Gordonscript: Frank Belknap Long, Horace Walpole

Stories

The Werewolf Stalks · 8 pages
They captured a timber wolf, but it was instead a werewolf!
The Living Ghost · 12 pages
Train wrecked, man strangled, cars thrown over cliffs; could it be the supernatural? Malevo, Satan's first lieutenant, lives and is looking for a queen!
Voodoo · 1 pages
A history of voodoo.
The Painted Grave · 1 pages
An artist paints a picture that seems too realistic.
It Walked by Night · 9 pages
A man swears revenge for his murder and the ghost haunts the property.
The Cursed Pistol · 1 pages
A cursed gun kills a man and his descendants.
The Castle of Otranto · 7 pages
The ghost of Alfonso stalks the castle killing those who occupy it.
The Horrible Toys · 1 pages
Jane and Jimmy enter an old witch's house and find some toys.
The Vengeful Specter of Lord Tyrone · 2 pages
The ghost of a dead man visits a woman who scorned him to punish her.
Haunted House · 6 pages
Lorna has to spend the night in her late uncle's house.

Reprinted in

Adventures into the Unknown Archives (2012), Classic Pulp (2013), Classic Pulp Horror (2020), Classic Pulp (2021), Edge of Fear (1984), Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (2009), Werewolf (2025)