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Issue: The Hand of Fate #24 Public Domain
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #24 of 19 Issues
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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
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Content Items: 10 (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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First Line: Yes, you! If you are guilty you shall pay by one of these violent deaths!
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Chew Improved Formula Kelpidine...

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Feature(s): American Healthaids Co.
Synopsis: Kelpidine Chewing Gum reduce your weight up to 5 lbs. a week.
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The Man Who Would Be Fate

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Letterer(s): Typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
First Line: So you would like to be as powerful as Fate?
Synopsis: When power-mad Roger Dunning blackmails a conference of world leaders, he is thrown into a jail cell. Fate steps in and offers Dunning to take his place. For moments, Dunning controls the universe, but is quickly put to death by vengeful spirits. Fate takes control again.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] published January 2008
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Pages: 7
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 33

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
First Line: Don't you recognize him, Doctor?
Synopsis: "The year, 1931, the place, Paris. Dr. Hugo Becker was a pioneer in the medical field of plastic surgery..." Dr. Becker is forced to operate on a criminal fugitive and is killed afterwards. But the murderer's face distorts horribly.
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Lord of the Tattered Realm

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Louis Rouselle
First Line: You see, Louis Rouselle, every one of them is in your power and you can destroy them like puppets, as long as you serve me!
Synopsis: Louis Rouselle, a scrap dealer in Paris, is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his business partner, but can escape with the help of the supernatural "junk spirit". Thanks to voodoo magic, the junk spirit enables Rouselle to murder all of his jurors. For this service, the junk spirit claims Rouselle's soul.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 34

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
First Line: After several strange killings in the area, the villagers stormed the castle and put the vampire family to death.
Synopsis: "I am a guide at Blanchard castle in England! For thirty years tourists have visited this castle without incident! But one day last week, a weird adventure occurred which I must relate..." When a "lost descendant" of the Blanchards comes visit, he turns into a vampire, because all Blanchards were vampires. The brave guard drives a stake through his heart.
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Disclose Notes: The first (and probably only) Ace one-pager to be told by a first person narrator.
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12 Symbols to Hell

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Fate (host)
First Line: By the twelve houses of heaven... what have I done? Who are you?
Synopsis: Astrologer Carl Dunnock commands the symbols of the zodiac come to life. In an attempt to avert his foretold death, Dunnock only makes things worse. In the words of storyteller Fate: "In trying to escape his doom, Carl Dunnock brought it on".
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The Ghostly Guillotine

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Genres: horror, occult
First Line: The story I have to tell may seem strange --- stranger than anything you have read before...
Synopsis: A New York doctor with French roots travels to Paris and has a terrible nightmare. Or is it a nightmare? He relives his last hours as personal physician to queen Antoinette before they both get beheaded by the guillotine.
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Beast of the Bayous

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Fate (host)
First Line: I'm sorry to interrupt your conference with your sons, Mr. Clark.
Synopsis: In the "voodoo-ridden bayous" of the Louisiana swamps strange things are happening. With the help of an Ouanga witch woman, Lydia Foster plans to inherit a building company. She gains the power to transform herself into an alligator - and back. After her first killings, Lydia gets stuck between half-human, half-beast and is torn apart by a pack of alligators.
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Gain More Weight in 10 Days Or Your Money Back

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Feature(s): More-Wate Company
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