The Hand of Fate
#22
(March 1954)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
To Behold His Doom
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Stanley Timor finds a mirror which predicts the future. He uses it to rob the victims of accidents and make money out of other people's misery. When shown his own demise by illness, Timor tries to run - and runs right in the middle of it.
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 29
A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "The powers of the unknown have often played weird tricks with mortal man and the strangest one took place in New Orleans..."
A medium wishes to be buried in her homeland, France. Because she can't afford a journey there, her coffin drifts across the Atlantic to the French shore.
Whom the Image Strikes
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Fate (host)
- Synopsis
- Bart Westcott, "a struggling young lawyer", comes into possession of a statue of demon god Bael. With the help of this advocate's devil, Westcott becomes the famed owner of his own law firm. Until he gets challenged by the next struggling young lawyer...
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 30
A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "Nearly one hundred years ago, when the Balkan countries of Europe were ruled by despotic royalty, an adventure in the realm of the supernatural occurred..."
A Hungarian baron goes kill-crazy over the sound of a gypsy fiddle and kills the fiddler. But the music won't stop.
Curse of the Sapphire Fiend
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The cursed "yellow sapphire" brings wealth and riches to its owner, but only for a year. Then out crawls a demon who lacerates the owner and sends him to eternal damnation.
Return of the Ice Vampire
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire, who has been kept frozen in a glacier for ten years, returns and seeks revenge.
The Night of Friday 13
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Death
- Synopsis
- Death takes a holiday and things get out of hand. A party of heirs waiting for the demise of old man Morgenson starts murdering each other.
- Reprints
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in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #5 (June 2013) which is reprinted
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To Behold His Doom
Fate -
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 29
A Hand of Fate Mystery -
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Whom the Image Strikes
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 30
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Curse of the Sapphire Fiend
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Return of the Ice Vampire
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The Night of Friday 13
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