Adventure Comics #95
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Riddle of the Rembrandt!", Wes and Sandy stumble upon a forged masterpiece at a museum, setting off a mystery that follows a trail of artful deception. When the fake Rembrandt is stolen from the Dodd residence, the Sandman uncovers a scheme involving a criminal artist enhancing real paintings—only to sell them as fakes and profit from the fraud. Gil Kane handles both pencils and inks for the story, while Jack Kirby and Pen Shumaker bring the cover to life.
In "The Riddle of the Rembrandt!" from Adventure Comics #95 (1944), Wes and Sandy stumble upon a forged Rembrandt at a museum, sparking a mystery that leads the Sandman to uncover a clever scheme: a criminal artist is enhancing real masterpieces, then selling them as fakes—turning art into a tool for theft.
When Professor Barnes mistakenly attends the Eastern Banker's Convention instead of the Astronomer's, he finds himself trapped in a supposedly burglar-proof safe—leaving his colleagues at the astronomy event baffled. With the professor missing and no sign of him, Ted Knight dons the Starman suit to track down the missing academic before it’s too late.
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Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #41 (2003), Golden Age Starman Archives #2 (2009), The Sandman by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby #[nn] (2009)
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