Amazing Adventures
Amazing Adventures is the name of several anthology-format comic book series, all but one published by Marvel Comics.
Ziff-Davis
The first was a science fiction title with painted covers reminiscent of 1930s pulp magazines. It ran six issues, beginning c. 1950 with an undated first two issues, followed by issues for June, August, and November 1951, and Fall 1952. Its artists included Murphy Anderson, Bernard Krigstein, and Don Perlin, and at least one issue (#2) featured a cover painting by Alex Schomburg.
Marvel Comics
1961 series
Marvel's first series of this title premiered June 1961, and featured primarily science fiction and drive-in movie-style monster stories, virtually all drawn by the legendary comics artists Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko. Notably, its first issue introduced the supernatural monster-hunter Doctor Droom, Marvel's first Silver Age superhero.Droom had powers of telepathy and hypnotic suggestion taught him by a Tibetan lama who'd come to the U.S. for medical attention (later retconned as the Ancient One, the same sorcerer who trained Doctor Strange).
More a monster-story appendage than a serious attempt at creating a three-dimensional character in the manner of the upcoming Spider-Man or Fantastic Four, Doctor Droom vanished into obscurity for years when the series was retitled and reformatted as Amazing Adult Fantasy with #7. He resurfaced in the 1970s as Doctor Druid, having been renamed to avoid confusion with Doctor Doom.
Amazing Adventures #3 (cover-dated Aug. 1961, published May 9, 1961 per the Library of Congress), being the first comic book labeled Marvel Comics, containing the "MC" box on the cover.
1970 series
Marvel's next Amazing Adventures was a split title featuring the Inhumans (initially both written and drawn by Jack Kirby) and The Black Widow (initially by writer Gary Friedrich and penciler John Buscema). The Widow was dropped after #8, and full-length Inhumans stories ran for two issues before that feature, too, was dropped.
Issue #11 (March 1972) introduced solo stories of the erstwhile X-Men member Beast, in which he was mutated into his modern-day blue- (originally grey-) furred form. The initial story was by writer Gerry Conway, penciler Tom Sutton and inker Syd Shores. The Beast's supporting cast included Patsy Walker and her ex-husband, "Buzz" Baxter, who much later became the supervillain Mad-Dog. The series ended with issue #16 (Jan. 1973).
Following an issue that reprinted the backup features recounting the Beast's origin (edited from [Uncanny] X-Men #49-53 (with a new, single-page intro by writer Steve Englehart and penciler Jim Starlin)), the title then introduced the series "War of the Worlds" and its central character, Killraven, in #18 (May 1973). Created by co-plotters Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, scripter Conway, and pencilers Adams and Howard Chaykin, it was taken over by writer Don McGregor for a highly acclaimed run from #21 (Nov. 1973) to the final issue, #39 (Nov. 1976). Pencillers were Herb Trimpe, Rich Buckler, and, most notably, P. Craig Russell from issue #27.
1979 series
The next version of that title reprinted [Uncanny] X-Men #1-8, the first six issues of which were split into two-part stories. The backup featured was "Origin of the X-Men" from X-Men #38-48, except in Amazing Adventures #12, in which the incongruous backup was an 11-page, Jim Steranko "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." story, "Today Earth Died", from Strange Tales #168 (May 1968).
Eight covers of this 1979 series were reprints of the Jack Kirby originals; artists for the rest included penciler John Byrne on #6 and #9.
Other
The similarly named Amazing High Adventure was a sporadically published anthology of historical, biblical and science-fiction adventure stories. Like the 1950s Ziff-Davis Amazing Adventures, it, too, featured painted covers, with the artists including Joe Chiodo, Frank Cirocco, Dan Green and John Bolton. A one-shot Amazing Adventures (July 1988) was similar.