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Hughes Loses, William Gaines:
The Horror Titles

The EC titles were the first really successful horror comics, and as
such it was they who spawned imitators, not Adventures Into The
Unknown.

"Readers Guide to Pre-Code Horror" #7, Lawrence Watt-Evans
/ Comics Buyers Guide

Since the appearance of "AITU" several years ago, we have publish-
ed more than 30 million copies! [Author's note: over 638,000 copies
an issue!]. Rather impressive, wouldn't you say?"

Adventures Into The Unknown # 49 ( November 1953) letters page

Despite the commonly held misconception that EC Comics pub-
lisher William Gaines created horror comics with the release of The
Vault Of Horror ( April-May 1950), Tales From The Crypt ( October-
November 1950) and The Haunt Of Fear ( May-June 1950), it was
actually Richard Hughes, through the American Comics Group,
who did so, beating Gaines to the punch by over a year. The first
issue of ACG's Adventures Into The Unknown appeared in the fall of
1948. This introduction of the horror genre into the art form is
arguably the most important contribution that Hughes and ACG
made to the history of comic books.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Forbidden Adventures: The History of the American Comics Group. Contributors: Michael Vance - author. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1996. Page Number: 93.
    
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