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Hand of Fate (1951 Ace) 17

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    Hand of Fate (1951 Ace) 17
    Hand of Fate (1951 Ace) #17
    Published Apr 1953 by Ace Magazines.
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    $220.00
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    • 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover coming loose at one staple. Oxidation and water spotting.

    Cover art by Dick Beck. The Sorcerer's Spectacles starring Fate, art by Bill Molno; Vernon Hutchins, a bad man and gambler, comes upon a magic pair of glasses; If he looks through the sorcerer's spectacles, devils appear and kill everyone he is looking at. Beware the Snake Queen!, pencils by Charles Nicholas; In the Haitian jungle two explorers confront the snake queen; The Meduse-like creature's stare can turn men into snakes. Orchids from the Dead, pencils by Ken Rice; Lonny Quinn works as gravedigger in a penal colony off the coast of Mexico; He finds out that orchids blooming on the graves of the convicts inhabit their souls and eventually bloom into full grown new bodies. Mirror Macabre, art by Louis Zansky; After Victor Tein kills his rival in a mirror foundry, he is haunted by Fate and his victim's ghost appearing in mirrors. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.