The Hand of Fate
#21
(December 1953)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- A. A. Wyn Inc.
- Brand
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Ace
- Editing
- ?
Strange Gift from the Unknown
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In Paris, art painter Philip Rhodes is a failure. Though warned by Fate, he indulges in a satanic deal with the forces of the supernatural. Rhodes gets to be famous, but is overcome by a mad urge to kill.
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 27
A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "On the eerie wasteland of the Scottish moores, there are footprints of a huge animal that to this day defies explanation..."
Scientists hatch a prehistoric egg and release a blood-sucking monster on society.
Revenge of the Haunted
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Biff Stone is a monster-hunter. He supplies circuses around the world with werewolves, vampires and such. When his kidnapping of a mermaid princess fails and Stone kills the being in cold blood, Fate steps in and metes out poetical justice: Stone himself is transformed into a merman and has to live as an aquarium's main attraction.
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 28
A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Greed has been the instigator of many crimes. The strangest of these criminal acts occurred in the late part of the nineteenth century in a European country..."
Martin Kroner strangles his uncle to inherit his precious ring. When he opens the coffin to steal the ring, the dead uncle strangles him!
Phantoms of the Forgotten
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Louis Zansky
- Inks
- Louis Zansky
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The crook George Crandall resurrects himself a posse of undead wild west bad men. They commit robberies until a wild west sheriff is brought back to life as well.
- Reprints
-
in Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts (IDW, 2019 series) (October 2019)
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No Escape
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A painter spends years of his life to paint the beginning of time, Creation itself. When he succeeds, Creation happens.
Invitation to Your Wake
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sy Grudko ?
- Inks
- Sy Grudko ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A congregation of werewolves, zombies, vampires and other monsters meets in a castle. They invite all mystery writers there and kill them - so they won't reveal any more secrets of the supernatural. Walter Lawson escapes the fiendish plot and manages to destroy the evil society - by crashing his plane laden with chemicals into the castle.
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Table of Contents
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Strange Gift from the Unknown
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 27
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Revenge of the Haunted
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 28
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Phantoms of the Forgotten
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No Escape
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7.
Invitation to Your Wake
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- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Glenn MacKay
- Jim Van Dore
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