Adventures Into the Unknown was an American comic-book magazine series best known as the medium’s first ongoing horror-comics title. ^[1] Published by the American Comics Group , originally under the imprint B & I Publishing, it ran 174 issues ( cover-dated Fall 1948 – Aug. 1967). ^[2] The first two issues, which included art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured horror stories of ghosts, werewolves, haunted houses, killer puppets and other supernatural and local. The premiere 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 . ^[2] Read more “Adventures into the Unknown”