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| Some mighty impressive art here. Lou Cameron reying, as usual, twice as hard as necessary--but it seems to me that Ken Rice net,"oh yeah? Get a load of this!" And Louis Zansky here looks like he's stopped trying to be ordinary, too. I'm impressed! |
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| A distinctly symbolic cover, here, with the apparent, "Hand of fate" character? Pretty interesting. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | August 1954 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: quarterly |
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| Advertisement | Chew Improved Formula Kelpidine... |
| Synopsis | Kelpidine Chewing Gum reduce your weight up to 5 lbs. a week. |
| Featuring | American Healthaids Co. |
| Credits | Pencils:? (photo) | Inks:? (photo) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Comic Story | The Man Who Would Be Fate (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | When power-mad Roger Dunning blackmails a conference of world leaders, he is thrown into a jail cell. Fate steps in and offers Dunning to take his place. For moments, Dunning controls the universe, but is quickly put to death by vengeful spirits. Fate takes control again. |
| Featuring | Fate |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery # 33 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "The year, 1931, the place, Paris. Dr. Hugo Becker was a pioneer in the medical field of plastic surgery..."
Dr. Becker is forced to operate on a criminal fugitive and is killed afterwards. But the murderer's face distorts horribly. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Lord of the Tattered Realm (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Louis Rouselle, a scrap dealer in Paris, is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his business partner, but can escape with the help of the supernatural "junk spirit". Thanks to voodoo magic, the junk spirit enables Rouselle to murder all of his jurors. For this service, the junk spirit claims Rouselle's soul. |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Louis Rouselle |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery # 34 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "I am a guide at Blanchard castle in England! For thirty years tourists have visited this castle without incident! But one day last week, a weird adventure occurred which I must relate..."
When a "lost descendant" of the Blanchards comes visit, he turns into a vampire, because all Blanchards were vampires. The brave guard drives a stake through his heart. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | The first (and probably only) Ace one-pager to be told by a first person narrator. |
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| Comic Story | 12 Symbols to Hell (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Astrologer Carl Dunnock commands the symbols of the zodiac come to life. In an attempt to avert his foretold death, Dunnock only makes things worse. In the words of storyteller Fate: "In trying to escape his doom, Carl Dunnock brought it on". |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate (host) |
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| Text Story | The Ghostly Guillotine (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A New York doctor with French roots travels to Paris and has a terrible nightmare. Or is it a nightmare? He relives his last hours as personal physician to queen Antoinette before they both get beheaded by the guillotine. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Beast of the Bayous (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the "voodoo-ridden bayous" of the Louisiana swamps strange things are happening. With the help of an Ouanga witch woman, Lydia Foster plans to inherit a building company. She gains the power to transform herself into an alligator - and back. After her first killings, Lydia gets stuck between half-human, half-beast and is torn apart by a pack of alligators. |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate (host) |
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| Advertisement | Gain More Weight in 10 Days Or Your Money Back (1 page) |
| Featuring | More-Wate Company |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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