Red Band Comics #4

When Dr. Mercy and his ambulance driver Stompy seek shelter from a downpour at a grand house, they encounter the troubled heiress Miss Vance, who's plagued by terrifying visions of spectral figures—and the mysterious Dr. Cadaver who claims to be treating her condition. As Dr. Mercy investigates the strange happenings within the mansion's walls, he uncovers a sinister scheme involving fake frights, hidden machinery, and murder, leading him to devise a daring cure that forces Miss Vance to confront the truth behind her torment.

King O'Leary and his photographer Kitty Allen are on assignment covering the arrival of General Tisot, a European resistance leader, when a mysterious "human fly" climbing the hotel's exterior becomes an unexpected distraction—one that masks a sinister plot. As the General is found murdered in his locked room and Kitty vanishes while pursuing the climber, O'Leary must unravel the machinery behind the killing before it's too late. A wartime thriller where a city editor and his camera girl chase down a deadly Nazi scheme hidden in plain sight.

Race Wilkins embarks on a daring deep-sea expedition in a bathysphere, descending two miles below the ocean's surface to explore uncharted depths—but when the cable snaps, he's plunged into the impossible. Sucked through an underwater chasm and into a hidden world at Earth's center, Race finds himself surrounded by creatures of legend: sea serpents, sphinxes, three-headed dogs, and unicorns—all the mythical beings that have haunted human imagination since time immemorial. Now he must navigate this fantastic realm and uncover its impossible secrets if he has any hope of finding his way home.

In this 1945 Red Band Comics gem, timid inventor Hugh Mann—more afraid of his own shadow than any real threat—builds a rocket to escape his insecurities, only to crash-land on the bizarre planet Brutus. There, he’s captured by Flatfeet Fogarty and paraded before Super-Judge as a specimen of Earth’s weakness—until a sudden crisis forces him to step up and prove himself, earning the name Impossible Man in the process.