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{{Short description|American comic appearing from 1951 to 1967}}
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|publisher=[[American Comics Group]]
|date=July/Aug. 1951 - Aug. 1967
|issues=145
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'''''Forbidden Worlds''''' was a [[fantasy]] [[comic]] from the [[American Comics Group]], which won the 1964 [[Alley Award]] for Best Regularly Published Fantasy Comic. It published 145 issues between July/August 1951 to August 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |title=Magicman |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/magicman.htm |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |accessdate=27 April 2020}}</ref>

== Publication history ==
''Forbidden Worlds'', a 52-page comic with the initial subtitle "Exploring the Supernatural!", debuted in October 1951. Due to pressure from the [[United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency|1954 Senate subcommittee hearings on the dangers of comic books]], the comic changed its title (and focus) to ''Young Heroes'' from March 1955 to June/July 1955 (publishing issues #35–37). However, in August 1955, ''Forbidden Worlds'' reappeared with (another) issue #35 and the altered subtitle "Stories of Strange Adventure".

Issue #101 (Jan./Feb. 1962) saw a price raise from 10 cents to 12 cents. From #108 on, ''Forbidden Worlds'' became sporadically bimonthly instead of strictly monthly. #114 and #116 were special issues called ''Forbidden Worlds presents Herbie'', featuring [[Herbie Popnecker]], who first appeared in ''Forbidden Worlds'' #73 (December 1958). Issues #125 to #138 all featured [[Magicman]] on the cover.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wells |first1=John |title=American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-1969 |date=2014 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490557 |page=61}}</ref> The final issue was #145 (August 1967), when the company stopped producing newsstand comic books.

Most of the contents of ''Forbidden Worlds'', from 1957 to 1967, including the features "Magicman" and "Herbie", was written by [[Richard E. Hughes]] under a plethora of pseudonyms. Artists who contributed included [[Pete Costanza]] for ''Magicman''<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Will |last=Murray |title=ACG Costumed Heroes |magazine=[[Comics Feature]] |issue=51 |date=January 1987 |publisher=Movieland Publishing |pages=51-52}}</ref> and [[Ogden Whitney]] for ''Herbie''. Other occasional contributors include [[Hy Eisman]], [[John Buscema]], [[Paul Reinman]], and [[Chic Stone]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

An October 1, 1952, "Statement of the Ownership, Management, and Circulation" published in ACG's ''Forbidden Worlds'' #15 gave the publisher's name as Preferred Publications, Inc., 8 Lord St., Buffalo, New York" and the owners as Preferred Publications and  "B. W. Sangor, 7 West 81st Street, New  York, N. Y." The editor was listed as Richard E.Hughes, 120 West 183rd St., New York, N. Y." and the business manager as "Frederick H. Iger, 50 Beverly Road, [[Great Neck, New York|Great Neck]], Great Neck, [[Long Island|L. I.]], N. Y."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/ForbiddenWorlds015/ForbiddenWorlds015-036_djvu.txt | title = Full text of ''Forbidden Worlds'' 015 | publisher = [[American Comics Group]] via [[Internet Archive]] | accessdate = December 23, 2012}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?seriesid=837 Grand Comics Database Project]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081006054331/http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/dchistory/ACG.htm History of DC Comics:] American Comics Group
* Toonopedia pages on [http://www.toonopedia.com/acg.htm American Comics Group] and [http://www.toonopedia.com/magicman.htm Magicman]

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