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| Publication | April 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bi-Monthly |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
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| Comic Story | The Sorcerer's Spectacles (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vernon Hutchins, a bad man and gambler, comes upon a magic pair of glasses. If he looks through the sorcerer's spectacles, devils appear and kill everyone he is looking at. Fate steps in and makes Hutchins glance at his own reflection in the mirror. |
| Featuring | Fate |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | A Hand Of Fate Mystery #19 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "A true story that became legendary in the mining towns of Wales in Scotland, occurred at the turn of this century..."
Coal miner Sweeney gets buried in a cave-in, but his ghost helps his comrades to dig themselves out. |
| Featuring | A Hand Of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy |
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| Comic Story | Beware the Snake Queen! (6.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | In the Haitian jungle two explorers confront the snake queen. The Meduse-like creature's stare can turn men into snakes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Last row of page contains "Statement of the Ownership":
Owners: A.A. Wyn and Rose Wyn
Publisher: A.A. Wyn
Editor: N.J. Phillips |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | A Hand Of Fate Mystery #20 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "In a small town in France, there is told a true tale of a strange and awesome occurrence. In 1923, Peter Rouan, a tombstone carver, had amassed a small fortune..."
Rouan gets stabbed to death by robbers looking for his money. They only find tombstones - with their names engraved upon them. |
| Featuring | A Hand Of Fate Mystery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Orchids from the Dead (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lonny Quinn works as gravedigger in a penal colony off the coast of Mexico. He finds out that orchids blooming on the graves of the convicts inhabit their souls and eventually bloom into full grown new bodies. Quinn kills himself and is being shipped to freedom. As he grows a new body, Quinn learns that he will remain a zombie. |
| Credits | Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Looks like a rushed job by Ken Rice who returns to Ace horror books after five months' absence. |
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| Text Story | The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | In a trial of courage, Gregory Tamoric is supposed to stick a sabre into a grave at midnight on the local cemetery. He accidentally pierces his long cloak with the weapon, trips, falls down and dies of shock - thinking a skeleton has grabbed his foot. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
| Notes | Story is accompanied with two paintings by Lou Cameron (signed). |
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| Comic Story | Mirror Macabre (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | After Victor Tein kills his rival in a mirror foundry, he is haunted by Fate and his victim's ghost appearing in mirrors. Victor can't shake Fate and dies in a car crash he stages to wipe out all traces of his crimes. |
| Featuring | Fate |
| Credits | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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