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| Publication | October 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Pencils: Jim McLaughlin? | Inks: Jim McLaughlin? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
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| Comic Story | Death Was the Bridegroom (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Beautiful Voris Denham marries rich men and poisons them. So Fate decrees her end and Death claims her body. Voris seeks shelter in the arms of a stranger - who reveals himself to be death in person. |
| Featuring | Fate |
| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate and Death |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery # 25 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "Of the many fascinating tales of circus life, the one which has astounded students of the supernatural most, occurred twenty years ago in the winter quarters of a famous circus..."
Aerialists' squabble under the big top. To catch or not to catch. One lets the other down, followed by a ghostly revenge. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | The Phantom Gladiator (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | During their tour of Europe, Nat Murrano and his wife Grace are trapped in the ruins of Pompeii in Italy. They are the incarnations of a Gaul gladiator and a Roman noblewoman and have to fulfill deadly vows they made 2,000 years ago. |
| Credits | Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate (host) |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery # 26 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "A strange adventure in the realm of the supernatural took place thirty-seven years ago in a rundown section of London..."
A stranger pawns the Egyptian "amulet of death" which brings only misery. As the pawnbroker must learn when he goes broke and his shop burns down. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Long Shall the Undead Wail (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A ghoulish history lesson: after their assassination of kind Edward II. in 1327, his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer are doomed to roam the earth as a ghoul and a female werewolf. In the year 1953 they cannot stand it any longer and tear each other to shreds. |
| Credits | Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Text Story | The Macabre Find of Dr. Benton (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Out of curiosity Dr. Benton assembles the bones of a vampire's skeleton. The skeleton comes alive on the night of the full moon and locks Dr. Benton in a deadly struggle. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Dynasty of Disaster (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of an Algerian family who ruled the land. The curse of a dying slave haunts each new successor to the throne. They can't shake off the curse and die horribly, one by one. |
| Credits | Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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