American Comics Group Archives

Our recent post about the 1950 Ace Magazines release Challenge of the Unknown #6 reminded me of the unusual nature of that one-issue title.  Looking at it in the context of horror comics history, it is Ace's "proper" debut into Pre-Code Horror, after dabbling in the horror genre in Super-Mystery Comics and Four Favorites a[...]

Adventures into the Unknown from publisher ACG (American Comics Group) is a vastly underrated comic book series 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[...]

Hughes' American Comics Group.  Similar to the long-running horror title Adventures into the Unknown, which against all odds was able to thread a needle through the Comics Code era and last from 1948 to 1967, the publisher's long-running Romantic Adventures (eventually renamed My Romantic Adventures) lasted for 138 issues from 1949 to 1954.  Romantic Adventures[...]

The thing that makes Dizzy Dames noteworthy is that it features one of the most infamously weird characters in comics history from a publisher in American Comics Group, which was known for weird characters (see: Herbie) The ditzy but beautiful blonde Moronica first appeared in The Kilroys #8 in a story titled "The Nation's Nitwit"[...]

Hughes' American Comics Group, so this brief mid-1954 flirtation is indeed unusual.  A look at the timeline indicates that these changes were, oddly enough, also a part of a line-wide rebranding effort that actually began with Confessions of the Lovelorn #52, which hit newsstands in late June 1954 In the romance titles, these stories correspond[...]

The American Comics Group series Operation: Peril hit newsstands at a time when Cold War era fears and the onset of the Korean War combined to command the attention of the media and the public, and these influences show through in the eclectic contents of the title.  The short-lived series hit its stride with Operation:[...]

In a recent post regarding Adventures into the Unknown from publisher ACG (American Comics Group), we noted that the title was a vastly underrated comic book series because it is regarded as the first ongoing American comic book horror series, launching several months before other publishers began to ease into horror-focused titles, and about a[...]

Adventures into the Unknown from publisher ACG (American Comics Group) is a vastly underrated comic book series 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[...]