All Star Adventure Comic # 8

All Star Adventure Comic #8, March 1961

This is something of a ‘companion issue’ to All Star #7 with some similarly untypical and quirky contents.

This issue reprints the entire main feature contents (sans text-pieces) of Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956, and Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956.

There are a number of features in this issue which I expect have been sourced from a single issue, Blue Bolt #110 (or “Blue Bolt Comics”), August 1951, Star Publications, but unconfirmed at this stage.

I recommend checking in on James’ site for some more info on this issue, such as attributed story titles and possible credits.



The Target and the Targeteers: (untitled - begins “ Ranging afar in their battle against crime…”)
(Original source unknown, likely Target Comics, possibly reprinted in Blue Bolt #110, August 1951, TBC.)

They Wait in the Shadows!
Bob Forgione/Jack Abel
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

The Village That Cried!
Syd Shores
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956)

Mental Block
Bob Forgione/Jack Abel
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956)

Bull's-Eye Bill: (untitled – begins “Rawhide Ike, telling Bill his life story…”
(Original unidentified, 5 pages)

The Iron Men
Vic Carrabotta
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

Muggy-Doo and Orry Orangutan: (untitled – begins “Yo-Ho-Ho—Yo-Ho! I buy and sell, you know…”)
(Original unidentified, 7 pages)

The Girl Who Vanished
Syd Shores
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

The White Rider and Super Horse: (untitled - begins “From the hidden valley…”)
(Original source unknown, possibly reprinted in Blue Bolt #110, August 1951, TBC)

No Escape
Mac Pakula
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

Spacehawk: Spacehawk and the Blazing Death
Basil Wolverton
(Original unidentified, reprinted in Blue Bolt #110, August 1951)

The Strangers
Herb Familton
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

The Phantom Sub: (untitled – begins “Naval intelligence in Washington is all aflutter…”
(possibly Blue Bolt #110, August 1951)

My Neighbor's Secret!
Jack Kirby
(Journey Into Mystery 55, November 1959)

A World There Was
George Roussos
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #47, July 1956)

Fearless Fellers: (untitled – begins “Introducing the Boys—and Butch!)
5 pages
(Original unidentified, 5 pages)

The Man-Hunters
Jim Mooney
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956)

Elmer the Elk and Junior: (untitled – begins “Crash! Gosh all hemlock!”)
2 pages
(Original unidentified, 2 pages)

What Lurks Out There!
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956)
Bob Powell

Life or Death
Bob Brown
(Journey Into Unknown Worlds #42, February 1956)

This issue also includes a couple of full-page advertisements.

If anyone has any more info or sources on the above contents, please let me know.