Digital Comic Museum - Hand of Fate 025b


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Hand of Fate 025b (1954)

Issue: #25b
Published: December 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)
Credits:	Pencils: Jim McLaughlin ? \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Last Hiding Place
Featuring:	Fate
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	Lizette (dies) Brett Hannigan (dies) Nita Dell (dies)

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 37
Featuring:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Rendezvous with the Phantom Gypsies
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice \| Inks: Ken Rice
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 38
Featuring:	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.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Witch's Wicked Words
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Larry Woromay \| Inks: Larry Woromay \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	Package from a Stranger
Synopsis:	Sales clerk Fraken comes in possession of a package containing future-telling herbs. Fraken sees his own destruction and laughs. Not for long.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	When His Number's Up...
Featuring:	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!"
Credits:	Pencils: Louis Zansky \| Inks: Louis Zansky \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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