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Issue: The Hand of Fate #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1952
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Issues: #10 of 19 Issues
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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: 9 (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]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Pages: 1
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One Awful Night with a Fiend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Movie starlet Jane is made an offer she can't refuse: If she digs up foreign film director Count Marko from his grave and resurrects him, she will make her way to stardom yet. When Jane finds out that she will be starring in a "snuff movie" she has second thoughts. Jane escapes the fiend by setting the place on fire - and is recued by a handsome young movie producer looking for talent.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Features a disturbing panel of a man plunging a knife into a woman's throat and then throwing her off a building.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #5

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "In an art gallery in London, one may see three paintings by Reginald Coleman..." His first painting was a boat - which then exploded. His second a skyscraper - which then collapsed. His third a selfportrait - then he got struck dead by lightning.
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Beware of Siva's Flaming Wrath

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: An Englishman and his daughter in India interfere with local religion and superstition. They are cursed by a cult of Shiva worshippers. The curse comes true: Shiva persues them and the daughter and her bridegroom perish horribly in flames.
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In Content Item: FlagSpellbound #39 published January 1963
as Beware of Siva's Flaming Wrath [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #6

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Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "The tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte is to be found at Les Invalides in Paris..." A nightguard there encounters the ghost of Bonaparte mounting his white horse.
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Bride of the Golden Skull

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Clive Douglas steals a golden skull from a mountain temple in Tibet. Visions of the talking skull, commanding him to take him back, haunt his nights. A mysterious oriental woman can persuade Douglas to hand her the artefact. She reveals herself as the age-old Bride of the skull. Douglas goes insane.
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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.)
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The Hand

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Jules comes into possession of a black mahagony box containing a severed hand. The hand fulfills his every wish. But he shouldn't have said: "I wish I had never set eyes on you"...
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Disclose Notes: Variation of the horror classic "The Monkey's Paw" by William Wymark Jacobs (published in 1902).
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Lure of the Zombie Diamonds

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Gambler Willie learns of a South Seas tresure hidden in a valley only the dead can enter. He manages to get in, but comes out barely alive, broken and insane.
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose Notes: Not sure about the Cameron credit.
If so, it is very strangely inked, and not by Cameron (maybe Mario Rizzi?).
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, and Circulation

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Letterer(s): typeset
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