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Issue: The Hand of Fate #13 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1952
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Issues: #13 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
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Pages: 1
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Necklace of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: An ancient Greek snake necklace turns their bearers into snake monsters.
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Pages: 7
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #11

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "Anyone who lives for a length of time on an island in the Pacific learns not to laugh at tales of the supernatural..." In Hawaii lingers a ghostly hitchhiker taking rides and vanishing into thin air.
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Demonized Sweetheart

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Clint Harkness gets drawn into a plot concerning a Chinese jade demon and the powers of evil. The beautiful Ming-Loa positions herself on the wrong side and has to die.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #12

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "This strange story took place in western Australia and concerns a man named Ferris Fitzpatrick, a settler in the district..." Fitzpatrick is murdered by his housekeeper, his ghost leads the police to his body.
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Under the Telamone’s Spell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky (signed)
Inker(s): Louis Zansky (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Professor Vachell and his wife Betty are on an archeological field trip in Italy. A stone statue of Ajax puts Betty under its spell. Betty is driven into madness and death.
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Disclose Notes: Signed with the initials "LZ" in splash page.
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The Haunted Zither

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Synopsis: Pierre cannot stand his wife's incessant zither-playing anymore. He sets the house on fire and kills her, but is haunted by the melody of the zither. He tries to end this torture by confessing to murder and being guillotined, but his wife awaits him in the afterlife - playing her zither!
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Fate's Final Scoop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bill Walton ?
Inker(s): Bill Walton ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Fate
Synopsis: Stranded newspaperman Dick Palmer gets an idea how to land a scoop. He makes his own news. Palmer sets fire to a tenement house, blows up a bridge and releases gorillas from the zoo. Irony of fate: one of the gorillas finds him and kills Palmer. Eternal damnation awaits his soul.
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