The Hand of Fate #11 Values

COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Ken Rice ?

Inks: Ken Rice ?

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STORY DETAILS

Story #1 Story #2 Story #3 Story #4 Story #5 Story #6 Story #7 (7 Stories)

Title: Roots of the Evil Tree

Characters: Fate

Synopsis: Crazed artist Kurt Coleman shapes an "execution tree" into human form. It comes alive during a thunderstorm and follows him around like a pet. Kurt finds out that he cannot flee the walking tree and destroys its roots which have been living on in the ground. As Kurt swings the axe he is killed by lightning.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Louis Zansky

Inks: Louis Zansky

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: A Hand of Fate Mystery #7

Synopsis: "For several generations, one of the most famous of trapeze artists was the Rizzoni family..." The last two of the Rizzonis die performing their act, first Flora, then Angelo (seeing Flora's ghost on the trapeze).

Pages: 1.000

Title: The Final Curtain

Characters: Fate

Synopsis: Actor Morissey kills his colleagues to get the leading part in "Hamlet", though he has been warned several times by Fate personally to refrain from these acts of murder. When he gets his role, he is stabbed on stage.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Lou Cameron

Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: A signing in the third story (see there) indicates that Mastroserio was the main inker for this issue.

Title: A Hand of Fate Mystery #8

Synopsis: "It was in the year 1926 that this strange incident occurred. Robert Sistare, an American authority on Chinese history and culture, was touring China..." There he finds a sealed chamber, in which a man has been sitting for a hundred years. Being discovered, the strange monk can die.

Pages: 1.000

Title: The Man Who Bought a Genie

Synopsis: Antiques dealer Ridley buys a chest containing the genie of Kuo. Ridley wants to marry Annabelle for her money, the genie helps him achieving this goal. But Annabelle dies and Ridley is accused of murder. The evil genie returns to his chest.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Bill Molno (signed)

Inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio (signed)

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Hidden signature on symbols on the chest in the second panel: "Molno" and "Rocke".

Title: Heiress of the Rue de Sangre

Synopsis: Marlene, a French noblewoman turned artist, fights off Monsieur de Sangre in the Paris sewers. Sangre wants to kill her, cause he used to be the revolution's executioner and loves his work. To her aid comes writer Norman Carver, who is just accidentally looking for background material in those scenic sewers. He destroys the evil ogre by setting him on fire and carries the girl to the altar.

Pages: 2.000

Letters: typeset

Title: The Brew of Frightful Faces

Synopsis: In a cave in Central America, Van Jacobi discovers a potion which distorts a person's features. As Jacobi is a film studio's make-up man and jealous of the leading man, he applies the brew to his face. Jacobi has to flee, falls eventually into the potion, gets distorted, gets mad and gets shot dead.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Robert Turner

Pencils: Jim McLaughlin

Inks: Mario Rizzi ?

Notes: Robert Turner lists "The Frightful Faces" as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).

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