The Hand of Fate #13

(October 1952)

Necklace of Death (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lin Streeter

Inks:

Lin Streeter

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Fate

Synopsis:

An ancient Greek snake necklace turns their bearers into snake monsters.

A Hand of Fate Mystery #11 (Table of Contents)

A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

"Anyone who lives for a length of time on an island in the Pacific learns not to laugh at tales of the supernatural..."
In Hawaii lingers a ghostly hitchhiker taking rides and vanishing into thin air.

Demonized Sweetheart (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ken Rice

Inks:

Ken Rice

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Clint Harkness gets drawn into a plot concerning a Chinese jade demon and the powers of evil. The beautiful Ming-Loa positions herself on the wrong side and has to die.

A Hand of Fate Mystery #12 (Table of Contents)

A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

"This strange story took place in western Australia and concerns a man named Ferris Fitzpatrick, a settler in the district..."
Fitzpatrick is murdered by his housekeeper, his ghost leads the police to his body.

Under the Telamone’s Spell (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Louis Zansky (signed)

Inks:

Louis Zansky (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Professor Vachell and his wife Betty are on an archeological field trip in Italy. A stone statue of Ajax puts Betty under its spell. Betty is driven into madness and death.

Indexer Notes

Signed with the initials "LZ" in splash page.

The Haunted Zither (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

Pierre cannot stand his wife's incessant zither-playing anymore. He sets the house on fire and kills her, but is haunted by the melody of the zither. He tries to end this torture by confessing to murder and being guillotined, but his wife awaits him in the afterlife - playing her zither!

Fate's Final Scoop (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bill Walton ?

Inks:

Bill Walton ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Characters:

Fate

Synopsis:

Stranded newspaperman Dick Palmer gets an idea how to land a scoop. He makes his own news. Palmer sets fire to a tenement house, blows up a bridge and releases gorillas from the zoo. Irony of fate: one of the gorillas finds him and kills Palmer. Eternal damnation awaits his soul.