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Issue: The Hand of Fate #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1952
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Issues: #9 of 19 Issues
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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
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Paul Hulick is a gambler who cheats on his girl. He meets Fate (the hooded figure) and learns that he must die tomorrow (by drowning) unless he changes his behaviour. He does so but refuses to hand Fate back his book so that he can change the death-entry. On the run he falls into an open manhole and drowns in the sewer.
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In Content Item: FlagBaffling Mysteries #25 published July 1955
as Flee the Other Self [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Scripting credit from Frohman's own records, which are now being sold on the collectibles market. (Frohman kept track of his writing by storing the scripts with copies of the comic books they appeared in. Now those comics are being sold with the scripts attached.) When this story was reprinted in Baffling Mysteries #25 (July 1955) the Comics Code required the ending to be changed -- Paul Hulick is pulled out of the sewer alive and in the last panel Fate would be replaced with his conscience.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #3

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
First Line: One afternoon, in the year 1903, professor Gerald Osgood and his young assistant Curtis Waite discovered the long buried tomb of pharoah [sic] Rah-Tep...
Synopsis: The tomb is protected by the depiction of a half-man-half-beast. It comes alive and kills the professor.
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Secret of the Witch's Urn

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Robbie Donegal saves a witch out of a pool of quicksand and gains magic items: a horn to summon the witch and do his bidding and an urn to hold the ashes of his enemies. The condition: no one else must touch these items. After living reckless for some time, Donegal marries and his wife touches the urn. The witch demands a sacrifice and hunts him down to a bog of quicksand, where he dies.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #4

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Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: The Arabs of Tunisia are great lovers of thoroughbred horses, trained for racing...
Synopsis: When famous racing horse Hadid dies, it runs a last race as a ghost horse.
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Strange Rendezvous at 17 Rue Noir

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Chess champion Nicola is a vain and arrogant man. He is challenged by a mysterious opponent to a game of life and death involving human chess figures killing each other as the game unravels. The opponent is the late chess champion Kovacs, who returns from the dead to teach Nicola a lesson. Fate steps in, sends Kovacs back to the afterlife and claims Nicola's life himself - for his vanity (and because he has "seen what no mortal can live to repeat").
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The Tartar Curse

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Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: A musician believes to own a magical dagger, laden with a tartar curse. He almost kills the woman he loves, but learns that he only fell prey to blood poisoning.
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Vengeance from a Restless Grave

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Amos Langford is mocked by the whole town for his ugly appearance. He dies in an accident, is revived in a lightning-rich thunderstorm and comes back - with a vengeance. He wants to open the dam and flood the town, when his coat is caught in the machinery and is he hurled into the waters.
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