Issue: #18
Published: June 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) |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Phantoms' Vengeful Return |
| Featuring: |
Fate |
| Synopsis: |
Circus director Cal Massey sabotages the acts of his artists. They die and the circus draws more spectators. The ghosts of the murdered artists drive Massey into a flaming vat of oil. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Chic Stone | Inks: Chic Stone ? |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery #21 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"There is a well known legend told in a small town in Germany of a noted composer who lived there in the late nineteenth century..."
Driven by a mysterious visitor, the composer writes a "Devil's Concerto". He plays it for his music teacher, transforms into the devil and kills the man. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Potion from the Unholy Cauldron |
| Synopsis: |
Shakespeare scholar Henry Bostwick gets the idea to actually brew together the ingredients of the witches' cauldron from "Macbeth" - summoning a genie who does his bidding. Bostwick becomes a he-man, gets his hand on laser-technology from the 30th century, but is tricked by Shakespeare's three witches into a fatal miscalculation. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sy Grudko | Inks: Sy Grudko | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Characters: |
Fate (host) |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
A Hand of Fate Mystery #22 |
| Featuring: |
A Hand of Fate Mystery |
| Synopsis: |
"In the winter of 1903, two prospectors in the wasteland of Alaska mined a rich lode of gold..."
One kills the other. Getting back to civilization, there is no gold in his bag, but the body of his mate. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Web of the Spider Woman |
| Synopsis: |
In Hampshire in England a "spider woman" walks abroad. Half woman, half beast the spider attacks people randomly and drains them of their blood. Police inspector Evans can hunt down the giant spider and destroy it by fire. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Bill Molno | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Curse of the Dead Twin |
| Synopsis: |
Richard Shepley saves a woman from a train wreck, but has to leave her twin sister behind dying. The twin sister curses him and comes back from the dead. She succeeds in claiming her sister to join her in death. |
| Credits: |
Letters: typeset |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
The Spectral Executioners |
| Synopsis: |
In 1848, Ivan Deltchev from the Russian military police is squatting insurrections in Poland. Torturing people to death is his daily bread. But the "legion of heroic dead" comes back to haunt him. Deltchev is driven to insanity and death. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Ken Rice | Inks: Ken Rice | Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering) |
| Genre: |
Horror-suspense |
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