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The Hand of Fate Comic Books Issue No 21

The Hand of Fate Comic Books Issue No 21

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Publication December 1953 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 36 | Frequency: bimonthly

Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Comic Story Strange Gift from the Unknown (7 pages)
Synopsis In Paris, art painter Philip Rhodes is a failure. Though warned by Fate, he indulges in a satanic deal with the forces of the supernatural. Rhodes gets to be famous, but is overcome by a mad urge to kill.
Featuring Fate
Credits Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story A Hand of Fate Mystery # 27 (1 page)
Synopsis "On the eerie wasteland of the Scottish moores, there are footprints of a huge animal that to this day defies explanation..." Scientists hatch a prehistoric egg and release a blood-sucking monster on society.
Featuring A Hand of Fate Mystery
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Revenge of the Haunted (7 pages)
Synopsis Biff Stone is a monster-hunter. He supplies circuses around the world with werewolves, vampires and such. When his kidnapping of a mermaid princess fails and Stone kills the being in cold blood, Fate steps in and metes out poetical justice: Stone himself is transformed into a merman and has to live as an aquarium's main attraction.
Featuring Fate
Credits Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story A Hand of Fate Mystery # 28 (1 page)
Synopsis "Greed has been the instigator of many crimes. The strangest of these criminal acts occurred in the late part of the nineteenth century in a European country..." Martin Kroner strangles his uncle to inherit his precious ring. When he opens the coffin to steal the ring, the dead uncle strangles him!
Featuring A Hand of Fate Mystery
Credits Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Comic Story Phantoms of the Forgotten (7 pages)
Synopsis The crook George Crandall resurrects himself a posse of undead wild west bad men. They commit robberies until a wild west sheriff is brought back to life as well.
Featuring Fate
Credits Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

Text Story No Escape (2 pages)
Synopsis A painter spends years of his life to paint the beginning of time, Creation itself. When he succeeds, Creation happens.
Credits Letters: typeset
Content Genre: Occult

Comic Story Invitation to Your Wake (7 pages)
Synopsis A congregation of werewolves, zombies, vampires and other monsters meets in a castle. They invite all mystery writers there and kill them - so they won't reveal any more secrets of the supernatural. Walter Lawson escapes the fiendish plot and manages to destroy the evil society - by crashing his plane laden with chemicals into the castle.
Credits Pencils: Sy Grudko? | Inks: Sy Grudko? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Content Genre: Horror

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