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Issue: The Hand of Fate #23 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1954
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Issues: #23 of 19 Issues
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: A. A. Wyn Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): M. J. Phillips
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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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Genres: horror
First Line: Run! Run! We can wait!
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He Who Robs The Dead

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
Synopsis: Grave robber Albert Torrence finds a treasure beneath a cemetery. As he spends the loot, Torrence learns that he has been framed by the dead. The jewels of a murdered woman lead him straight to the electric chair.
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Pages: 7
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery #31

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand Of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "The 'Affair of the Black Rose' was a true case of the supernatural that took place in England when knights were bold and feuds common among noble families..." The curse of the Black Rose haunts the descendents and claims casualties centuries later.
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Shattering The Time Barrier

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
Synopsis: Philip Spayne, state executioner and operator of the electric chair, accidentally establishes a link between the worlds of the living and the dead. He employs a band of dead criminals to rid this world of all gangsters and dictators. A kind ghost pushes Spayne into the electrical current and thusly ends his tyrannical vigilantism.
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery #32

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand Of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "In the files of the Paris police there can be found a case history of a crime that occurred over thirty years ago..." A man dressed as a devil at a Hallowe'en party kills his ex-girlfriend, then dies after his costume fuses to him.
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Hell Beyond The Crystal Ball

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Synopsis: Scientist Max Bronislaw is fascinated by the future. To travel there, he makes a deal with a strange apparition named Natas. Each look into future centuries holds disappointment and misery for Bronislaw. When he can't bear no more, Natas (=Satan) claims his soul.
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The Grenoble Curse

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Synopsis: Ruthless Denise murders her husband, the old Comte de Grenoble. He curses her with his dying breath. Looking for his hidden treasures, she is locked into the family vault.
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Thrust of a Ghost Lance

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Synopsis: A medieval knight returns from the dead to avenge his unrightful death in a tournament.
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Disclose Notes: States publisher and business manager is A. A. Wyn, editor is M. J. Phillips. Owners are given as A. A. Wyn, Inc., A. A. Wyn and Rose Wyn.

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