Indie Squid Kid

Adventures Into The Unknown was a horror comic published by B&I Publishing/American Comics Group. It ran for 174 issues from Fall 1948-August 1967. Cover art for the series depicted pretty typical horror fare—ghosts, vampires, zombies, dinosaurs—but monstrous cephalopods were given the spotlight on three separate occasions. Enjoy.

Adventures Into The Unknown #47

Does the Sargasso Sea exist? And does this legendary graveyard of ancient ships contain a dread, eerie secret too terrible for the mind of man to encompass? Thrill to a story that dares to tell all…”The Derelict Fleet”!

Is that Perry Mason?

Adventures Into The Unknown #49

Who knows what dread horrors the fathomless ocean depths may hide? Here’s a pulse-pounding story which tells of the KRAKEN–an awful being which rose from out of the unknown itself–and how science struck back against the fearful onset!!

“Laser bathysphere” is totally going on my Christmas wish list. Also, I had no idea the Kraken looked like Zombie Betty Davis!

Adventures Into The Unknown #157

Nemesis—pitted against terror from the deep! It’s all in the great thriller…”The Case of the Tittering Texan!”

I have no idea what Texas, or tittering, for that matter, has to do with this octopus.

From Octophant.us:

In 1933 a bathysphere expedition intended to break the world record for ocean descent was lost under mysterious circumstances. The cause of the disaster was never determined and no three-toed sloth was ever put in command of a bathysphere again.

Hand-printed edition of 70. Signed and numbered.

This print was 11″ x 23″ and only cost $20, but, tragically, it is sold out (at least at the time of this writing).

Phineas’ site has many more pieces of cephalopod-themed art, and some are still available! Visit Octophant.us to find out more.