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Issue: The Hand of Fate #25b Public Domain
Publication Date: December 1954
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Issues: #25b 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
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Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Pages: 1
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The Last Hiding Place

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
Character(s): Lizette (dies); Brett Hannigan (dies); Nita Dell (dies)
Synopsis: Fate presents us with Madame Lizette and her carnival wax museum of unnatural history. Resorting to witchcraft, she breathes new life into a werewolf and a tiger woman. In a confrontation with the police, Lizette catches fire at her cauldron and burns like her ancestors.
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 37

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: "The scientific world was never more astounded than by the experiments of a young assistant to professor Marcus Keeler, a brilliant botanist of the late 19th century..." Said assistant grows carnivorous plants and is attacked by them. He is saved by the professor.
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Rendezvous with the Phantom Gypsies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Rice
Inker(s): Ken Rice
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A gypsy boy flees the orphanage he lives in and travels with a salesman to a gypsy camp. They witness a gypsy wedding. In an outburst of jealousy the salesman kills the groom and drives away, burning down the camp. The boy escapes and is found by the police. The events he saw took place ten years ago, at the time when he was brought to the orphanage.
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From Content Item: FlagWeb of Mystery #5 published October 1951
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Pages: 7
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A Hand of Fate Mystery # 38

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: "The trading ship 'Palar' set sail from Bombay, India, with full cargo in the late 19th century headed for port in New York..." En route, Captain Holland throws a sick native over board, but encounters the zombie-like native again later in life and dies of the same illness.
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The Witch's Wicked Words

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Larry Woromay
Inker(s): Larry Woromay
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Running from the police and his gangster friends, crook and murderer Louie Brink is sent back to the year 1450 through a time machine. Cornered by a mob of witch-hunting Germans who want to burn him at the stake, Louie saves the last bullet for himself.
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Package from a Stranger

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Sales clerk Fraken comes in possession of a package containing future-telling herbs. Fraken sees his own destruction and laughs. Not for long.
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When His Number's Up...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Louis Zansky
Inker(s): Louis Zansky
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Fate
Synopsis: Fate watches over reckless businessman Guyle Kraft. He is spared by fire, electricity, falling objects and even gets away with murdering his partner. When Kraft is caught in an avalanche, Fate states: "His destiny has been fulfilled!"
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