Well, I wasn't really planning on making this a related series of posts beyond featuring vintage horror comic artwork but once I started digging for info, it just sort of found me.
Today I'll be showing off Adventures into the Unknown by American Comics Group (ACG).
While yesterday's Eerie was the first all original horror comic, Adventures was the first ongoing horror comic.
Is this not the perfect Halloween cover: A presumably haunted house, a creepy tree and a full moon with bats flittering in front of it? The first issue (above) contained an adaptation of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which is considered to be the first ever Gothic novel. The series ran for an amazing 177 issues from 1948 to 1967.
Throughout the series run, it featured stories of ghosts, werewolves, haunted houses, killer puppets and other supernatural entities and places.
It was one of a very few horror comics to survive the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings that brought about the restrictive Comics Code.
It was one of a very few horror comics to survive the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings that brought about the restrictive Comics Code.
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| An example of a post-Comics Code cover (upper right) |
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Click here for Part 5 of Horror Comic History.
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