Issue: #23
Published: June 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing: M. J. Phillips
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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Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
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Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
He Who Robs The Dead |
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Fate |
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Grave robber Albert Torrence finds a treasure beneath a cemetery. As he spends the loot, Torrence learns that he has been framed by the dead. The jewels of a murdered woman lead him straight to the electric chair. |
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Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) | Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand Of Fate Mystery #31 |
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery |
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"The 'Affair of the Black Rose' was a true case of the supernatural that took place in England when knights were bold and feuds common among noble families..."
The curse of the Black Rose haunts the descendents and claims casualties centuries later. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Shattering The Time Barrier |
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Fate |
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Philip Spayne, state executioner and operator of the electric chair, accidentally establishes a link between the worlds of the living and the dead. He employs a band of dead criminals to rid this world of all gangsters and dictators. A kind ghost pushes Spayne into the electrical current and thusly ends his tyrannical vigilantism. |
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Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand Of Fate Mystery #32 |
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A Hand Of Fate Mystery |
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"In the files of the Paris police there can be found a case history of a crime that occurred over thirty years ago..."
A man dressed as a devil at a Hallowe'en party kills his ex-girlfriend, then dies after his costume fuses to him. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Hell Beyond The Crystal Ball |
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Fate |
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Scientist Max Bronislaw is fascinated by the future. To travel there, he makes a deal with a strange apparition named Natas. Each look into future centuries holds disappointment and misery for Bronislaw. When he can't bear no more, Natas (=Satan) claims his soul. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Richard Case | Inks: Richard Case | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
The Grenoble Curse |
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Ruthless Denise murders her husband, the old Comte de Grenoble. He curses her with his dying breath. Looking for his hidden treasures, she is locked into the family vault. |
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Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Thrust of a Ghost Lance |
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Fate |
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A medieval knight returns from the dead to avenge his unrightful death in a tournament. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Statement Of Ownership (0 pages) |
Statement of Circulation |
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Letters: typeset |
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