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| Publication | February 1952 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
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| Comic Story | It Is Written: I Die Tomorrow! (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Paul Hulick is a gambler who cheats on his girl. He meets Fate (the hooded figure) and learns that he must die tomorrow (by drowning) unless he changes his behaviour. He does so but refuses to hand Fate back his book so that he can change the death-entry. On the run he falls into an open manhole and drowns in the sewer. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate |
| 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.) When this story was reprinted in Baffling Mysteries #25 (July 1955) the Comics Code required the ending to be changed -- Paul Hulick is pulled out of the sewer alive and in the last panel Fate would be replaced with his conscience. |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery #3 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The tomb is protected by the depiction of a half-man-half-beast. It comes alive and kills the professor. |
| Featuring | A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Secret of the Witch's Urn (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Robbie Donegal saves a witch out of a pool of quicksand and gains magic items: a horn to summon the witch and do his bidding and an urn to hold the ashes of his enemies. The condition: no one else must touch these items. After living reckless for some time, Donegal marries and his wife touches the urn. The witch demands a sacrifice and hunts him down to a bog of quicksand, where he dies. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | A Hand of Fate Mystery #4 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | When famous racing horse Hadid dies, it runs a last race as a ghost horse. |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Strange Rendezvous at 17 Rue Noir (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chess champion Nicola is a vain and arrogant man. He is challenged by a mysterious opponent to a game of life and death involving human chess figures killing each other as the game unravels. The opponent is the late chess champion Kovacs, who returns from the dead to teach Nicola a lesson. Fate steps in, sends Kovacs back to the afterlife and claims Nicola's life himself - for his vanity (and because he has "seen what no mortal can live to repeat"). |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Fate |
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| Text Story | The Tartar Curse (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A musician believes to own a magical dagger, laden with a tartar curse. He almost kills the woman he loves, but learns that he only fell prey to blood poisoning. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Vengeance from a Restless Grave (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Amos Langford is mocked by the whole town for his ugly appearance. He dies in an accident, is revived in a lightning-rich thunderstorm and comes back - with a vengeance. He wants to open the dam and flood the town, when his coat is caught in the machinery and is he hurled into the waters. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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