Forbidden Worlds (1951 ACG) comic books 1954-1956

Add to cart CGC 6.5 $240.00 View scans Paper: White Label #4022353016

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.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Jet pilots in World War II encounter phantom pilots in biplanes from World War I; A soldier who has to abandon a wartime fortune is reunited with it after the war; A treasure hunter faces the horror of the People from Down Under, who are not Australians but instead subterranean dwellers from below the Earths surface. The Phantom Flyers!; Incident on a Battlefield; A Belt of Gold!; The Telephone!; The People from Down Under! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Kurt Schaffenberger, Mike Suchorsky, Tom Hickey and John Rosenberger. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A woman encounters her fairy godmother; A Moroccan prince mysteriously vanishes without a trace; Brothers create a device that allows them to send their thoughts to each other – or so they think. The Awakening!; Hitch; Someone to Watch Over You!; The Records!; The Moroccan Prince; A Penny for Your Thoughts! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Hy Eisman, Harry Lazarus, Tom Hickey and John Rosenberger. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An ordinary-seeming man possesses strange powers, in a very Twilight Zone-ish scenario; A man discovers the hidden cost of immortality and tries to warn the modern-day doctor who learns his secret; A contestant has a dream that tells him how to perform at his upcoming appearance on a TV quiz show. Mr. Miggs from Mercury!; There's No Escape!; The Man from Ancient Greece!; A Question of $64,000! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Dick Beck, Mike Suchorsky, Tom Hickey and Ogden Whitney. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. An archaeologist discovers that history repeats itself with disturbing frequency; A man discovers that aliens are making copies of Earths artistic treasures for their own enjoyment; A drowning boy is saved by his fathers faithful childhood dog, who died many years before. Home Is Where You Find It!; Island Rescue; Over the Line!; The Disappearance!; A Boy's Best Friend!; The Old Roman Coin! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Dick Beck, Hy Eisman, Tom Hickey and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A man who wants to know the future starts receiving tomorrows paper today; Magical candles grant a couples fondest wishes, but what happens when the candles burn out?; Cavers discover a rocketship buried hundreds of feet beneath the earth. The Man Who Knew Tomorrow!; The Old Mirror; Out Went the Candles!; Buried History!; A Boy's Best Friend!; The Old Roman Coin! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Hy Eisman, John Rosenberger and Emil Gershwin. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A scientist in England discovers a manor house where ancient music plays, and meets a woman who leaves no footprints in the snow; An Air Force pilot parachutes into the Garden of Eden; A man seeks the truth about his bad luck and finds it in the stars. The Girl on Kenniston Crag!; Voice Out of Space; Strange Garden; Congo Episode!; Vera, My Dark Star! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Harry Lazarus, John Rosenberger and Emil Gershwin. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A Navy sailor encounters an undersea civilization and falls in love with the beautiful Roma; A man realizes he lived in ancient Egypt in a previous life, and the pharaohs curse continues to follow him today; A monkey sent into space for an experiment starts to exhibit superior intelligence. The Girl at the Bottom of the Sea!; Mr. O'Toole; Uncanny Mysteries; The Pharaoh's Fate!; The Explorers! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney, Harry Lazarus, John Rosenberger and Pete Costanza. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A WWII soldier fleeing enemy forces on a remote island discovers the remains of an ancient, gigantic civilization; A mystery writer and war veteran finds his characters coming to life; Explorers in the Arctic hear the legend of the veelik, a half-man/half polar bear that may not be a legend after all. A Day in the Life of Tommy Trent!; The Black Cat; The Invisible Men!; Underneath the Island!; Out of the Unknown!: No. 3--- Secret of the Ice. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney, Bob Jenney, John Rosenberger and Pete Costanza. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. Soldiers encounter a land of dinosaurs and primitive people inside a volcano, in a tale Edgar Rice Burroughs would have found familiar; Two brothers are at odds over a family ring that brings good luck; A doll comes to life and wages a campaign of destruction against the human race, but all he really wants is another just like him. Terrific Ogden Whitney dinosaur cover. The Land That Time Forgot!; Over the Ages!; The Good Luck Ring!; Peter Plastic!; What's Behind That Superstition?: No. 2 - Walking Under a Ladder. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Ogden Whitney. Edited by Richard E. Hughes. Art by Ogden Whitney, John Rosenberger and Harry Lazarus. An anthology series featuring tales of fantasy and science fiction adventure from legendary early independent comics publisher ACG. A boy who finds a genie has apparently never heard that expression about being careful what you wish for; Over the centuries, various members of the Barton family are saved by a mysterious figure with a distinctive scar; Scientists discover the remains of the last centaur. The Man with the Crescent Scar!; The Parson's Truck; The Camera Never Lies!; Jimmy and the Genie; A Storm of Meteors!; Out of the Unknown! No. 2 - Strange Centaur. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.