Forbidden Worlds (1951 ACG) comic books 1953-1955

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, Sam Cooper, Charles M. Quinlan and Jon Blummer. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A dead reporter files a story from beyond the grave; A subway traveler gets on the wrong train in the lonely reaches of Brooklyn; A terrifying dream sends a woman to an old house to help a friend – but she may already be too late. Invasion from Hades; United in Death; The Case of the Subway Spectres; The Man Who Knew All; The Thing Called Dharna; The Wings of Darkness. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Jon L. Blummer, Pete Riccia, Al Camy and Paul Gattuso. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An atom bomb unleashes something that looks like red Godzilla with a hairpiece; A time traveler accidentally alters history and must make it back to the future – that is, 1953; A scientist sends a cursed letter to the man who cheated him out of his inventions. Million-Year Monster; Terror at Sea; The Time Destroyer; The Awful Letter; Spectre of the Skies!; Payment in Full! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Jon L. Blummer, George Wilhelms, Edvard Moritz and Art Gates. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A woman is pursued by an evil witch who can transform into a vampire cat; The hideous true tale of ghostly avenger the Duke of Guise; Adventurers in the Amazon discover the horrible creatures that spin their cocoons in the upper canopy. The Vampire Cat!; Out of the Past; The Glory Hand; The Winged Terror; Ghostly Avengers of History; The Death Slave. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Charles M. Quinlan, Al Camy, George Wilhelms, Edvard Moritz and Frank Simienski. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An evil doll brings a killer back from the dead; A disembodied head remains full of terrible life; True Werewolves of History presents the strange tale of The Rajah of Balaralphur. The Doll; The Living Head; Castle in Cornwall; Lure of the Snake Goddess; The Rajah of Balaralphur; Mountain of Doom. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Charles Nicholas, Al Camy, Leo Morey and Jon Blummer. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An American man and a British woman vie for ownership of a haunted mansion; The recording of an archaeologists death summons the ancient evil that killed him; Stranded skiers encounter a werewolf high in the Rocky Mountains. The House in Grosvenor Lane; His Masters Will; Werewolves of the Rockies; The Face of the Fiend; The Recorded Monster!; Lost Island. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, Charles Nicholas, Frank Simienski and Lin Streeter. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. The mummy of Rhamses-Tut figures in the sinister plans of a deranged archaeologist; A castaway rescued from the sea turns out to be the Vampire of the Deep; Competing spirits vie for the soul of a young gangster. The Mummy!; The Devil and Tommy Trent; Salem Witch; The Buried Curse; Vampire of the Deep. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Charles Nicholas, Robert McCarty, Edvard Moritz and Dick Beck. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A man learns of his previous life as a pirate who enraged a voodoo queen; A sinister spirit unleashes a terrible vengeance on lion hunters; A young woman from an Alpine village is betrothed to the hideous Baron Nicht, but no one knows what happened to his previous wives. The Pirate and the Voodoo Queen; The Bull Elephant; The Avenger!; The Stolen Spirit; Vampire Castle. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Jon L. Blummer, Sam Citron, Harry Lazarus and Charles Nicholas. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An antique mirror is the doorway to another dimension; Jim and Sally discover that goblins are real, and become caught up in a war between the benevolent Forest Goblins and the malevolent Water Goblins; A mad doctor on a deserted island is creating human-animal hybrids (but his name isnt Moreau, its Kurtz). The Haunted Mirror!; The Transformation; War of the Goblins!; The Bog of Evil!; Terror Island! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Dick Beck, Leo Morey, Edvard Moritz, Art Gates and Edmond Good. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A professor under the mental domination of the Ant Master becomes a human ant, making for a great cover; A couple moves into an old house and begins receiving strange and sinister letters; A desperate writer becomes unwittingly involved with an ancient death cult. The Ant Master!; Killers Burial; Letters from the Unknown!; The Pharaohs Ruby; The Bubbling Pit; Deity of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Robert McCarty, Bob Forgione, Harry Lazarus and Walter Davoren. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A prospector makes a deal with the devil to keep his gold even after hes dead; A fiery spirit is unleashed from a cursed casket in an Egyptian tomb; Pilots in Rangoon encounter a beautiful woman and a deadly native dance. Ghost Gold!; The Hungry Picture; The Cursed Casket!; Dead Mans Tree!; The Dance of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Charles Nicholas, Bill Walsh and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A mad scientist creates horrifying insect-animal hybrids; A robot falls in love with a woman and goes on a rampage; A ghost ship appears over the South Pacific with a crew of undead privateers. Nightmare for Two!; The Mummy That Lived; The Machine That Fell in Love; The Thing in the Bottle!; Terror of the Deep! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ken Landau, Charles Nicholas, Walter Davoren and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A gypsy witch gives a womanizer a potion that will make the beautiful Roxanne fall in love with him forever, but the potions power lasts even after death; A demonic creature demands the sacrifice of beautiful women in ancient Egypt, but one man has had enough; A man meets a beautiful woman in the Arctic wilderness and learns the truth about the wolf pack thats been stalking him. Love Me Forever!; King of the Zombies; Charars Prey; The Drakko; The Werewolf's Fangs. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, Ken Landau, Bob Forgione, Charles Nicholas, Jon L. Blummer and Charles Quinlan. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A sinister rubber baron has his partner killed by a Brazilian witch doctor, but the victims severed head continues to haunt him even back in America; A man purchases a cursed music box in Venice; A Nazi war criminal is pursued by the spirits of his victims. The Venetian Music Box!; Revenge of the Fire-Spirit; Hallahans Head!; United Forever!; The Living and the Dead!; The Dead Remember; True Uncanny Mysteries. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Art Gates, Sam Citron, Charles Nicholas and Bob Forgione. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A boxer faces death in the ring; A faceless fiend sets out to murder the descendants of an ancient noble family; Uranium hunters in Sumatra find the connection between a beautiful native woman and a deadly tree. The Champ; Death Through the Ages; The Specters of Carteret Castle; Report from the Beyond!; Tree of Terror! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Two explorers discover the horrible fate of a colleague who has gone missing in the jungle; The last survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon jungle tells a horrifying story; A vampire takes advantage of Mardi Gras to seek victims in New Orleans. The Thing with the Golden Hair!; Ill Protect You; Deaths Domain; He Spoke with a Spirit!; Terror under the Big Top!; Horror at the Mardi Gras. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Kenneth Landau, Sheldon Moldoff, George Klein and Dick Beck. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A painters portrait of a beautiful woman brings her back from the grave; A sudden increase in icebergs is tied to the release of a long-frozen monster; A scientists mad experiment turns Bobo the gorilla into something more than ape, but less than human. Portrait of Carlotta; High Tension!; The Beast in the Berg; Everyday Superstitions; The Evil Eye!; The Beginning and the End! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Lin Streeter, Sheldon Moldoff, Al Camy, Kenneth Landau and Bob Forgione. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A hideous froglike creature stalks the depths of the lake; A woman taking a bus tour of New York City with her boyfriend is visited by the spirits of her boyfriends murder victims; Thieves discover the hideous secret of the firewalkers. The Frogman; Journeys End ; Terror in the Sky; Tour of Horror; The Firewalkers Revenge!; Rivals Unto Death! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Bob Forgione, Sam Citron, Harry Lazarus and Dick Beck. Cover by Harry Lazarus. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A crook teaches a parrot to become his partner in crime and soon regrets it; Nature takes a hideous revenge after a murder on a beach; A man obsessed with a long-dead woman learns the horrifying secret of her accursed family. The Talking Machine!; The Ninth Victim! ; The Street That Was; The Thing on the Beach!; They'll Never Believe Me! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Kenneth Landau, Sheldon Moldoff, Art Gates, and Lin Streeter. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A strange visitor brings death to the corrupt nobles who hunted common folk for sport; A hideous stone idol opens a gateway to the dimension of the dead; An obsessed artist sculpts a self-portrait thats a little too lifelike. Circle of the Doomed!; No Escape!; The Horrors of Mu!; Danny and the Demon!; Masquerade. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Bob Forgione, Charles Nicholas, Kenneth Landau, and Milt Knopf. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Earth is in trouble when invading aliens join forces with the living dead; A visitor realizes he lived a previous life in Venice, and his fate is sealed when he returns; A man learns the horrifying truth about an old woman and her three pet apes. A Tomb for Antonio!; Deaths Darts ; The Invasion of the Deadlings; Uncanny Mysteries; Secret of Cynthia Krone!; Jury of the Dead. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ken Landau, Art Gates, Lloyd Cynwald, and Emil Gershwin. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An escaped convict meets a beautiful woman in the swamp, but doesnt realize she is the alligator woman; A scientists preserved brain remains alive, but becomes evil and attempts to use mental telepathy to commit murder; A cursed spinning wheel allows an unscrupulous couple to commit crimes while in a disembodied ghost form. Bride of the Swamp; E.S.P.; The Stone Face; The Corpse That Lived!; Wheel of Fortune. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ken Bald. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Paul Gustavson, Charles Nicholas, Emil Gershwin, and Ken Landau. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A prospector encounters a scouting party from an alien invasion force; A woman stalks the night as a werewolf, while her blind husband has no idea of her true nature; A murderous couple turns on each other after the spirit of a dead aunt reveals the location of a fortune. Last pre-Code issue, but still pretty mild compared to the EC and Harvey horror comics. This title technically becomes Young Heroes with issue #35, but Forbidden Worlds resumes with its own issue #35 in summer 1955. Day of Reckoning!; The Cold Cure; Secret of the Goratti; My Fanged and Fiendish Darling; Rendezvous with Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney, Art Gates, Harry Lazarus, and Ken Landau. After the Senate hearings of 1954 and an eight-month hiatus, ACGs Forbidden Worlds resumes, now focused on science fiction adventure instead of horror and ghost tales, and proudly bearing the seal of the Comics Code Authority. A scientist is the only person immune from the mind-dulling fog of an invading alien race; Another race of alien invaders doesnt know about water; A woman has troubling visions of the future. First issue with a Comics Code seal. The Night Nothing Happened; Journey Into Adventure; The Tiny War!; Calculated Risk!; The Dreamer! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger, Chic Stone, Charles Nicholas, and Kurt Schaffenberger. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An Earth scientist helps an alien race battle intelligent dinosaurs; Hypnosis somehow creates a double that tries to take over a mans life; A female reporter becomes smitten with an illusionist who has uncanny powers. Art by Superman and Lois Lane artist Kurt Schaffenberger. Pussycat on the Dog Star!; Picture of an Heir; The Hypnotic Trance!; The Master of Illusions! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by John Rosenberger, Leonard Starr, and Ogden Whitney. Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A bumbling actor winds up in the court of King Arthur after a blow to the head; A successful writer on vacation realizes that he is caught up in one of his own stories, and it doesnt have a happy ending; A woman meets her ancestor from 1704 in a dream, and learns an important fact about the present. One Exciting Knight!; Knights' Gallery; Step by Step; Journey into the Past!; Cyclone! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Mike Suchorsky, Charlie Sultan, and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Twin brothers have a psychic connection, which becomes vital when one of them is trapped in a cave; A man is guided to an injured girl by a phantom policeman; A pilot discovers a lost Greek civilization living on an enchanted plateau in the Himalayas. The Identical Twins!; I'll Protect Him; Nine Fathoms Deep!; Destiny Road!; Journey into Time! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Ogden Whitney, and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. After drinking from the Fountain of Youth, Davy Crockett fights for the United States in every war until World War II; A soldier saves a young doctor who one day returns the favor; An alien scout for an invasion force meets an Earth woman and falls in love. Art by Superman and Lois Lane artist Kurt Schaffenberger. The Davy Crockett Mystery!; Never Break a Mirror!; Flight into Nowhere!; The Hand of Fate!; Stella and the Stranger! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.