Issue: #21
Published: December 1953, 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
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| Cover (1 page) |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Strange Gift from the Unknown |
| Featuring: |
Fate |
| Synopsis: |
In Paris, art painter Philip Rhodes is a failure. Though warned by Fate, he indulges in a satanic deal with the forces of the supernatural. Rhodes gets to be famous, but is overcome by a mad urge to kill. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 27 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"On the eerie wasteland of the Scottish moores, there are footprints of a huge animal that to this day defies explanation..."
Scientists hatch a prehistoric egg and release a blood-sucking monster on society. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Revenge of the Haunted |
| Featuring: |
Fate |
| Synopsis: |
Biff Stone is a monster-hunter. He supplies circuses around the world with werewolves, vampires and such. When his kidnapping of a mermaid princess fails and Stone kills the being in cold blood, Fate steps in and metes out poetical justice: Stone himself is transformed into a merman and has to live as an aquarium's main attraction. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery # 28 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"Greed has been the instigator of many crimes. The strangest of these criminal acts occurred in the late part of the nineteenth century in a European country..."
Martin Kroner strangles his uncle to inherit his precious ring. When he opens the coffin to steal the ring, the dead uncle strangles him! |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Phantoms of the Forgotten |
| Featuring: |
Fate |
| Synopsis: |
The crook George Crandall resurrects himself a posse of undead wild west bad men. They commit robberies until a wild west sheriff is brought back to life as well. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
No Escape |
| Synopsis: |
A painter spends years of his life to paint the beginning of time, Creation itself. When he succeeds, Creation happens. |
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Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Fantasy |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Invitation to Your Wake |
| Synopsis: |
A congregation of werewolves, zombies, vampires and other monsters meets in a castle. They invite all mystery writers there and kill them - so they won't reveal any more secrets of the supernatural. Walter Lawson escapes the fiendish plot and manages to destroy the evil society - by crashing his plane laden with chemicals into the castle. |
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Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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