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Issue: The Hand of Fate #25a Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1954
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Issues: #25a of 19 Issues
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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: 8 (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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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
First Line: Fool! You cannot hold back time!
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Pages: 1
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Who'd Believe Kasimir Raades?

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
Feature(s): Fate
Synopsis: Broz in Croatia, 1865. Scientist Kasimir Raades develops an elixir of eternal youth and is full of best intentions, using this agent to help his aged friends first. They sadly die after some days, the elixir has to be improved. Raades however gets painted as madman and murderer. When he finally succeeds, it is to no avail. No one believes him and he himself doesn’t benefit either.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 35

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "When professor Henry Crane and his guide lowered themselves into a secret chamber of the lost Inca temple, they did not calculate the dangers forecast by the natives of the Peruvian jungle..." Discovering the "temple of the hawk god", both men are attacked and killed by a golden hawk come to life.
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Big Top Nightmare

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lin Streeter
Inker(s): Lin Streeter
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Mysterious Countess Barovna joins the circus. She is an age-old vampire and kills off all the other acts to be the main act. In the end she gets staked and sent to her grave.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #5 published July 1951
was Big Top Nightmare [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6.66
Disclose Notes: Last third of last page is filled with an ad for the RIAL (Religion In American Life) automobile sticker.
In the first printing there was an ad for the Beyond reader contest. "Win cash prizes! Tell us which stories you liked best".
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 36

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sy Grudko
Inker(s): Sy Grudko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis: "They were born twins, Guido and Marco, at the turn of the century. But fate played a weird trick on Marco. Guido was born tall and straight, but his twin brohter, Marco, was born with a deformed and twisted body..." Through witchcraft Marco becomes normal, but has to kill Guido in the process. Of course Guido's ghost returns for revenge.
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Death Wears No Face

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
Synopsis: Combat correspondent Alec North is the sole survivor of a patrol running into trouble in Korea. He should have died, too, but can cheat Death and Fate. He continues an unhappy life. North starts seeing things that aren't really there and is haunted by faceless men. He returns to Korea and accepts his fate.
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The Python's Dance

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: occult
Synopsis: Dudley falls in love with the snake charmer Doreen. Tony, her python, seems to be jealous of their liaison. When Tony attacks Dudley, Doreen has to kill him and makes her new lover change for her. Dudley is going to be the next show's attraction.
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Trial by Ghost Light

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Playboy Weston is convicted and executed for a murder he didn't commit. The district attorney Dexter knew of his innocence, but used the case to become governor. Months later Dexter is poetically killed by a falling statue of justice and has to appear before a jury of ghosts. Dexter is sentenced to clear Weston's name - and does so.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Beyond #4 published May 1951
was Trial by Ghost Light [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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