Digital Comic Museum - Hand of Fate 024 -JVJ


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From the JVJ Collection - scans by tilliban
Contains artwork by Lou Cameron.

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Issue: #24
Published: August 1954, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 36, Editing:
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Man Who Would Be Fate
Featuring:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 33
Featuring:	A Hand of Fate Mystery
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Lord of the Tattered Realm
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice \| Inks: Ken Rice \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 34
Featuring:	A Hand of Fate Mystery
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	12 Symbols to Hell
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".
Credits:	Pencils: Louis Zansky \| Inks: Louis Zansky \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Fate (host)

Text Story (2 pages)	The Ghostly Guillotine
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.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Beast of the Bayous
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Jim McLaughlin \| Inks: Jim McLaughlin \| Letters: Typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Fate (host)

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