The Hand of Fate #15 Values

Publisher: Ace Magazines, 1952

About The Hand of Fate #15

Jim McLaughlin clown cover. Mike Sekowsky art. Horror stories.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Dead Ringer

Pencils: Jim McLaughlin

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

STORY DETAILS

(7 Stories)

Title: Dead Ringer

Synopsis: Death and Fate take control on a France-bound airplane. They crash the plane, leaving a sole survivor. Hubert Newton takes on the identity of rich French heir Victor de Murrain and moves into his family castle. Fate doesn't approve of the personality switch and confronts Hubert with the ghosts of the Murrain family.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Mike Sekowsky

Inks: Mario Rizzi ?

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: Ring Of Evil

Synopsis: Nada Chenier steals an ancient mummy's ring commanding a genie. Fate warns her that she will not find happiness, but damnation. Nada wishes herself beautiful things, but they are tainted and crawling with spiders and scarabs. She drowns herself in the river Seine.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: ? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes)

Inks: ? [as "Ace" Baker] (see notes)

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. refers to this artist as “Ace” Baker, a Matt-Baker-imitator, who worked for Ace Magazines.

Title: A Hand Of Fate Mystery #16

Synopsis: "The burning sands of the Sahara desert have taken many lives in its long history..." Two French archeologists split up to search for water. The first one dies, but his ghost leads the other to a waterhole.

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Title: The Doom of the Lucky Devil

Synopsis: Gangster "Lucky" Daniels is requested by Fate to change his ways. He denies and is led into a trap of greed. Finding gold in a mining ghost town he also encounters the miners' ghosts. Daniels falls into a pit and has to perish there.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Bill Molno

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

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