Issue: #19
Published: August 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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| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The 5 Lives of Otto Marlin |
| Featuring: |
Fate |
| Synopsis: |
Mad scientist Otto Marlin poisons Vivian Lake to learn about her previous lives. When cornered by the police, he poisons himself and is reincarnated in the middle ages. Marlin meets Lake again. They chase each other back through time. |
| 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 #23 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"From the sinister interior of the Florida everglades, comes a haunting and almost unbelievable story..."
Two hunters trespass into Indian burial grounds, are cursed and killed by the ghost of an avenging Indian warrior. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Stampede of the Centaurs |
| Synopsis: |
Archeologist Harlow Griffith releases a horde of living centaurs from a cave at Mt. Pindus in Greece. He joins their ranks and commits acts of murder and plundering. Griffith and his centaurs are imprisoned in the cave again, this time guarded by their worst nemesis, Hydra. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jim McLaughlin | Inks: Jim McLaughlin | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Fate (host) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery #24 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"The tale of 'the cave of the vampire bat' has been a topic of rapt discussion for years among the people of Mexico..."
When three men enter the forbidden cave, one of them remains there - changed into a gigantic bat. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Non-fiction Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Satan's Sinister Bargain |
| Synopsis: |
Tony Pascal, petty thief and murderer, comes into possession of the "Devil's Mirror". By looking into it, one is drawn into the realm of Satan. Pascal makes a deal and may return as long as he feeds the devil other souls. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Louis Zansky | Inks: Louis Zansky | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Spectre in the Arena |
| Synopsis: |
Boxing promoter Willy Martin arranges a foul fight. His late partner, Mike Kelly, returns from the grave and punches him to death. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
High Priestess of the Snake People |
| Synopsis: |
In the Swiss Alps, a young american stumbles across a cult of snake-worshippers. He is bewitched by the beautiful snake queen Gilda. An old villager comes to his help and blows the whole bunch to kingdom come with a pack of dynamite. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Frank Giusto | Inks: Frank Giusto |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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