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| The killer-tree was like an obsessive Ent or a golem, much like the monster in the movie "From Hell It Came", though this story was way better than the "plot" of that movie. Awesome PCH fun? |
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| Publication | June 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice? | Inks: Ken Rice? |
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| Comic Story | Roots of the Evil Tree (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Characters: Fate |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery #7 (1 page) |
| 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). |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
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| Comic Story | The Final Curtain (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron | Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate |
| Notes | A signing in the third story (see there) indicates that Mastroserio was the main inker for this issue. |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery #8 (1 page) |
| 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. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Bought a Genie (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Pencils: Bill Molno (signed) | Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Hidden signature on symbols on the chest in the second panel:
"Molno" and "Rocke". |
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| Text Story | Heiress of the Rue de Sangre (2 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Brew of Frightful Faces (7 pages) |
| 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. |
| Credits | Script: Robert Turner | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Mario Rizzi? |
| 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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