RARE DIGITAL VINTAGE GOLDEN/SILVER AGE COMIC BOOKS ON DVD ROM
CONTAINS A COMPLETE FULL SET OF ALL HORROR/MYSTERY COMICS PUBLISHED BY ACG
(1948-1967)
ALL TITLES AND ISSUES ARE LISTED BELOW:
ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN #1-174 (FULL RUN) 1948-1967
FORBIDDEN WORLDS #1-145 (FULL RUN) 1951-1967
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY #1-7 (FULL RUN) 1961
OUT OF THE NIGHT #1-17 (FULL RUN) 1952-1954
SKELETON HAND IN SECRETS OF THE SUPERNATURAL #1-6 (FULL RUN) 1952-1953
THE CLUTCHING HAND #1 (ONE-SHOT) 1954
UNKNOWN WORLDS #1-57 (FULL RUN) 1960-1967
A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF 407 COMIC BOOKS IN TOTAL
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AN ECOMIC READING PROGRAM IS ALSO INCLUDED ON THE DISC
ACG
American Comics Group (ACG) was an American comic book publisher started in 1939 and existing under the ACG name from 1943 to 1967. It published the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title, Adventures into the Unknown. ACG's best-known character was the 1960s satirical-humor hero Herbie Popnecker, who starred for a time in Forbidden Worlds. Founded by Benjamin W. Sangor, ACG was co-owned by Fred Iger from 1948 to 1967. Iger's father-in-law, Harry Donenfeld, head of National Periodical Publications (later known as DC Comics), was also a co-owner in the early 1960s (though Donenfeld was severely incapacitated and out of the business after an accident in 1962). ACG was distributed by Independent News Company, which also distributed by (and was part of the same company as) DC.
ACG
American Comics Group (ACG) was a small, but important, comic book publisher which satisfied the reading tastes of tens of millions of Americans during the Golden and Silver ages of comics (1934-1970). The earlier Sangor Shop reinvented itself as the American Comics Group and by 1967 had published over one thousand issues. ACG was a microcosm of the larger industry, publishing magazines in every major comic book genre. Best known titles include Herbie and Forbidden Worlds. It was ACG's Adventures into the Unknown that sparked a new genre--horror--which led to the Comics Code Authority, and industry-wide self censorship.
Adventures into the Unknown from publisher ACG (American Comics Group) is a vastly underrated comic book title. Regarded as the first ongoing American comic book horror series, the title lasted 174 issues from Fall 1948 to August 1967 — several months before other publishers began to ease into horror-focused titles, and about a year and a half before EC Comics' horror titles began in earnest. Adventures into the Unknown is underrated from a creative standpoint as well. The series maintained a high standard for stories and art throughout, under the editorship of industry pioneer Richard E. Hughes. And most of the debut issue's stories were written by horror and science fiction legend Frank Belknap Long.
Frank Belknap Long began writing for pulps in 1924 with Weird Tales. He became a close friend of H.P. Lovecraft and made early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. Long had expanded his range to science fiction by the 1930s, in pulp titles such as Astounding Science Fiction and others. By the late 1940s, Long was also writing comic books and contributed the scripts for most of the stories of the first two issues of Adventures into the Unknown, as well as stories for several other early issues.
Long's stories for Adventures into the Unknown #1 include a fascinating mix of horror tales from historical to modern. One interesting choice for this issue is his brief but effective adaptation of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto:
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, is generally viewed as the first Gothic novel. Its first edition, published in 1764, claimed to be a translation of a work printed in Naples in 1529 and newly discovered in the library of 'an ancient Catholic family in the north of England'. It tells the story of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse.
Artists collaborating with Long on this issue include Fred Guardineer, Edvard Moritz, Max Elkan, King Ward, and Al Ulmer. An important and incredibly underrated moment in the history of American comics