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Issue: The Hand of Fate #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1952
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Issues: #11 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Humor Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Fred Gardener (uncredited)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice ?
Inker(s): Ken Rice ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Roots of the Evil Tree

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky
Inker(s): Louis Zansky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Crazed artist Kurt Coleman shapes an "execution tree" into human form. It comes alive during a thunderstorm and follows him around like a pet. Kurt finds out that he cannot flee the walking tree and destroys its roots which have been living on in the ground. As Kurt swings the axe he is killed by lightning.
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Pages: 7
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "For several generations, one of the most famous of trapeze artists was the Rizzoni family..." The last two of the Rizzonis die performing their act, first Flora, then Angelo (seeing Flora's ghost on the trapeze).
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Pages: 1
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The Final Curtain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Actor Morissey kills his colleagues to get the leading part in "Hamlet", though he has been warned several times by Fate personally to refrain from these acts of murder. When he gets his role, he is stabbed on stage.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: A signing in the third story (see there) indicates that Mastroserio was the main inker for this issue.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "It was in the year 1926 that this strange incident occurred. Robert Sistare, an American authority on Chinese history and culture, was touring China..." There he finds a sealed chamber, in which a man has been sitting for a hundred years. Being discovered, the strange monk can die.
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The Man Who Bought a Genie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Molno (signed)
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Antiques dealer Ridley buys a chest containing the genie of Kuo. Ridley wants to marry Annabelle for her money, the genie helps him achieving this goal. But Annabelle dies and Ridley is accused of murder. The evil genie returns to his chest.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Hidden signature on symbols on the chest in the second panel:
"Molno" and "Rocke".
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Heiress of the Rue de Sangre

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Synopsis: Marlene, a French noblewoman turned artist, fights off Monsieur de Sangre in the Paris sewers. Sangre wants to kill her, cause he used to be the revolution's executioner and loves his work. To her aid comes writer Norman Carver, who is just accidentally looking for background material in those scenic sewers. He destroys the evil ogre by setting him on fire and carries the girl to the altar.
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The Brew of Frightful Faces

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Turner
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Mario Rizzi ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Synopsis: In a cave in Central America, Van Jacobi discovers a potion which distorts a person's features. As Jacobi is a film studio's make-up man and jealous of the leading man, he applies the brew to his face. Jacobi has to flee, falls eventually into the potion, gets distorted, gets mad and gets shot dead.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Robert Turner lists "The Frightful Faces" as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).

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