Digital Comic Museum - Hand of Fate 025a -JVJ


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Another book from the JVJ Collection - tilliban scans.
Contains artwork by Lou Cameron.

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Issue: #25a
Published: November 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:	Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Comic Story (7 pages)	Who'd Believe Kasimir Raades?
Featuring:	Fate
Synopsis:	Broz in Croatia, 1865. Scientist Kasimir Raades develops an elixir of eternal youth and is full of best intentions, using this agent to help his aged friends first. They sadly die after some days, the elixir has to be improved. Raades however gets painted as madman and murderer. When he finally succeeds, it is to no avail. No one believes him and he himself doesn’t benefit either.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice \| Inks: Ken Rice \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 35
Featuring:	A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis:	"When professor Henry Crane and his guide lowered themselves into a secret chamber of the lost Inca temple, they did not calculate the dangers forecast by the natives of the Peruvian jungle..." Discovering the "temple of the hawk god", both men are attacked and killed by a golden hawk come to life.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Big Top Nightmare
Synopsis:	Mysterious Countess Barovna joins the circus. She is an age-old vampire and kills off all the other acts to be the main act. In the end she gets staked and sent to her grave.
Credits:	Pencils: Lin Streeter \| Inks: Lin Streeter
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (1 page)	A Hand of Fate Mystery # 36
Featuring:	A Hand of Fate Mystery
Synopsis:	"They were born twins, Guido and Marco, at the turn of the century. But fate played a weird trick on Marco. Guido was born tall and straight, but his twin brohter, Marco, was born with a deformed and twisted body..." Through witchcraft Marco becomes normal, but has to kill Guido in the process. Of course Guido's ghost returns for revenge.
Credits:	Pencils: Sy Grudko \| Inks: Sy Grudko \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Death Wears No Face
Featuring:	Fate
Synopsis:	Combat correspondent Alec North is the sole survivor of a patrol running into trouble in Korea. He should have died, too, but can cheat Death and Fate. He continues an unhappy life. North starts seeing things that aren't really there and is haunted by faceless men. He returns to Korea and accepts his fate.
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Inks: Lou Cameron (signed) \| Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Text Story (2 pages)	The Python's Dance
Synopsis:	Dudley falls in love with the snake charmer Doreen. Tony, her python, seems to be jealous of their liaison. When Tony attacks Dudley, Doreen has to kill him and makes her new lover change for her. Dudley is going to be the next show's attraction.
Credits:	Letters: typeset
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)	Trial by Ghost Light
Synopsis:	Playboy Weston is convicted and executed for a murder he didn't commit. The district attorney Dexter knew of his innocence, but used the case to become governor. Months later Dexter is poetically killed by a falling statue of justice and has to appear before a jury of ghosts. Dexter is sentenced to clear Weston's name - and does so.
Credits:	Pencils: Ken Rice
Genre:	Horror-suspense

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