Issue: #12
Published: August [1952], 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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| Credits: |
Pencils: John Chilly ? | Inks: John Chilly ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Man who pawned his Soul |
| Synopsis: |
A gambler gets his hands on magic dice. He cannot lose anymore. Fate appeals to his conscience. The gambler doesn't listen. He is pursued by zombie-like ghosts and in the end claimed by the devil. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bill Molno | Inks: Bill Molno | Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Fate |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery #9 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"There are still adventurous young men who travel the American west..."
A prospector dying of thirst in the desert is rescued by an indian maiden. She turns out to be a ghost girl. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Cauldron of Evil |
| Synopsis: |
In the Ozark mountains, a village is terrorized by witches. A young man falls into their hands and has to do their bidding as a "witch-man". He transforms into an ugly fat man and is about to open the gates to flood the village. A brave farmer crosses these evil plans, destroys the witches and saves the young man. He is happily ever married to the farmer's daughter. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Mario Rizzi ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery #10 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"To some of us is given the rare power to foresee future occurences..."
A tourist dreams that an avalanche will bury a swiss village. No one believes him, and as he leaves the place, a giant snowslide actually comes downhill. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Dr. Chaney's Macabre Creation |
| Synopsis: |
Brilliant surgeon and grave-robber Dr. Chaney wants to build a super-brain by puzzling together the best parts of five different brains. His dumb assistent is to be the carrier of the new brain. Doctor mistreats assistant, assistant destroys brain in a rage and switches it with a lion brain. Doctor kills assistant and unknowingly transplants him the animal brain. Assistant goes on a rampage. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Mario Rizzi ? | Inks: Mario Rizzi ? | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Fate |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Fires of Ozymandias |
| Synopsis: |
Greedy explorer desecrates pharaoh's tomb and is hit by his curse. The Pharaoh's wife, Moira, comes alive and condemns the man to eternal entombment - fully conscious. |
| Credits: |
Letters: Typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Grave will not Wait |
| Synopsis: |
A stonemason is crushed to death by a falling gravestone. He tries to make a deal with death: Kill other people if he is allowed to live on. But fate teaches him a lesson. All his actions are fruitless. Fate and death crush him again under the gravestone. Because "his life had run its course". |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Fate |
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