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Issue: The Hand of Fate #17 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #17 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAce Magazines
Brand: AceView Brand Images
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: 9 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Pages: 1
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The Sorcerer's Spectacles

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
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.
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Pages: 7
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery #19

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
Feature(s): A Hand Of Fate Mystery
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.
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Pages: 1
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Beware the Snake Queen!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: In the Haitian jungle two explorers confront the snake queen. The Meduse-like creature's stare can turn men into snakes.
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Pages: 6.67
Disclose 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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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery #20

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Feature(s): A Hand Of Fate Mystery
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.
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Orchids from the Dead

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Looks like a rushed job by Ken Rice who returns to Ace horror books after five months' absence.
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The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
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.
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In Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #28 published May 1955
as The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Story is accompanied with two paintings by Lou Cameron (signed).
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Mirror Macabre

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
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.
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Pages: 7

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