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Article: Forbidden Adventures
Posted: August 12, 2012
Maybe like me you fondly remember those British black and white Alan Class collections, often reprinting stories so many times that the artwork was starting to disappear. They would come with almost interchangeable titles, made up of some combination of Astounding Creepy Suspense Tales from the Amazing Unknown Worlds Beyond! For thirty years until 1989, they were a cheap way for British kids to get hold of lots of pages of black-and-white American comic books, including Marvel’s new superheroes, in their local newsagents. Some of my favourite mystery tales in them originated from the American Comics Group (ACG). In his virtually unnoticed 1996 book Forbidden Adventures, Michael Vance charts the business and creative history of this modest, feisty outfit from 1943 to 1967, inextricably linked to its visionary editor and principal writer Richard E. Hughes, who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms - Pierre Alonzo, Ace Aquila, Brad Everson, Lafcadio Lee, Kermit Lundgren, Shane O’Shea, Greg Olivetti, Kurato Osaki, Pierce Rand, Bob Standish and Zev Zimmer - but whose real name was Leo Rosenbaum (1909-74). Read the rest of this Article on Herbie, Hughes, Highsmith & The History of ACG here…
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