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Issue: The Hand of Fate #16

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Publication Date: February 1953

Issue #16
- Men Against Crime
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
- #13
- #14
- #15
- ✔ #16
- #17
- #18
- #19
- #20
- #21
- #22
- #23
- #24
- #25a
- #25b
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Issues: #16 of 19 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Ace Magazines

Brand: Ace

Indicia Publisher: A. A. Wyn Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (11 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Frank Giusto

Inker(s): Frank Giusto

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

First Line: I warned you...there are no shortcuts in life...now you must pay for your folly!

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Draw Instantly

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Feature(s): Master Art Helper

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Notes: Ad for Master Art Helper self-teaching method on inside front cover.

Specters Stalk the Bloody Tower

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

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Genres: horror

Character(s): Fate (host)

Synopsis: England, 1940, height of the "blitz". A german collaborator is brought to justice and hanged by the ghosts of the London Tower.

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Pages: 7

A Hand of Fate Mystery #17

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, informational, non-fiction, occult

Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery

Synopsis: "In 1907, Peter Bauer, a resident of a small bavarian village..." A puppet maker assembles a devil puppet supposed to be cursed. The puppet comes alive and strangles the man.

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The Clock of Doom Strikes Loud!

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Mike Sekowsky ?

Inker(s): Mario Rizzi ?

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Fate

Synopsis: A "selfish man" dies and meets Fate, leading him to the afterlife. The man tries to cheat his demise by entering three doors back into life, labeled "Money", "Power" and "Love". Three times his new attempts at life fail miserably. In the end he has to accept his fate.

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Pages: 7

A Hand Of Fate Mystery #18

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

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Genres: horror, informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery

Synopsis: "The strange tale of death and mystery shrouds the small fishing village on the coast of Mexico"... Two fishermen murder their companion out at sea. A strange glow emanates from the water. The ghost of the murdered man drags one of the others into the deep.

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The Black Curse of Rhan Giva

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Penciller(s): Louis Zansky

Inker(s): Louis Zansky

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror, occult

Synopsis: After the death of Mr. Wingate, his indian servant tries to get control over his lovely daughter. He traps her in a magic doll house. Doctor Lithencourt, a friend of the family, can overwhelm the evildoer.

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Pages: 7

The Sapphire of Destiny

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Genres: horror

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Havoc on the Midway

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Penciller(s): Sy Grudko ?

Inker(s): Sy Grudko ?

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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Synopsis: A circus stage hand makes pact with the devil. He gets the magician's act, the strongman's girl and inherits the whole operation. But is he satisfied and lucky?! The devil collects his due when the man throttles his wife to death.

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Lt. Henry A. Comiskey, USMC Medal of Honor

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Genres: informational, non-fiction

Feature(s): U.S. Defense Bonds

Character(s): First Lieutenant Henry A. Commiskey

Synopsis: Discusses the heroics of Lt. Commiskey.

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Feature(s): Spot Reducer

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Notes: On back cover.