Digital Comic Museum - Adventures Into Darkness 005 (first issue)


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First Issue! a sundancetrance scan
Toth art in the first story.

29-October-2011 4:11 pm	\|
Username:	Robert
Comment:	Great scan of a great issue thanks.
20-May-2012 2:42 am	\|
Username:	Morrismoss
Comment:	The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne is also a Toth page.
26-September-2022 3:30 pm	\|
Username:	Mothermonster310
Comment:	such classics ! great artwork and awesome stories

Issue: #5
Published: August 1952, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S. Paper Stock: Newsprint Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: No credited editor in issue, but Joe Archibald was the Pines' comics editor-in-chief from 1948 to at least 1955. Ned L. Pines was the publisher and owner. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 5.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (8 pages)	Murder Mansion
Synopsis:	Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Danny Nash Helen Nash Carson

Comic Story (1 page)	Drury's Dream
Synopsis:	Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Frank Drury Old Ben The Sexton

Comic Story (5 pages)	Death Follows Orders
Synopsis:	A unit of Nazi soldiers is being unearthed from an underground cave and comes alive again. They won't rest until they have executed their Führer's orders. A brave French girl burns the papers and the soldiers turn to dust.
Genre:	Horror-suspense War
Characters:	Jacques Martin Pierrette Kranze Schultz Bacher

Comic Story (1 page)	The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne
Synopsis:	A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around Castle Eyne.
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	The Chimes of Doom
Synopsis:	After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock.
Credits:	Pencils: ? [2 spot illustrations] \| Inks: ? [2 spot illustrations] \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Charles Hanover Mrs. Swanson Aunt Agatha

Comic Story (7 pages)	Horror's Little Acre
Synopsis:	Honeymooners discover a killer's hideout. Luckily for them, the ground they walk on is cursed with the memory of an old unavenged murder. Nature itself turns upon the killer.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Tom Jordan Mayda Jordan "Mugger" Crandall

Comic Story (1 page)	The Phantom Warning
Synopsis:	A phantom apparition warns a ship about imminent destruction. The first skipper heeds the warning, the second doesn't and goes down with the ship.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Captain Richard Brown Captain Stander

Comic Story (6 pages)	Day of Reckoning!
Synopsis:	After a fire accident, singer Rosalinde Gordon turns into a bird woman with the ability to communicate with birds. When her husband smothers her in her sleep, he is hunted by dozens of birds and driven to death.
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Larry Gordon Rosalinde Gordon Virginia

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