Super-Mystery Comics #4

Name: Super-Mystery Comics #4
Brand: Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s]

Oct 1944 · Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · 0.10 USD

“The Rats with the Brains of Men”

In "The Rats with the Brains of Men," the Sword confronts the Genius, a small man whose dangerous intellect threatens the lives of hundreds of American sailors and thousands of Yankee soldiers—though how he plans to carry out his scheme remains a mystery. Penciled and inked by Lou Ferstadt, this 1944 thriller from Ace Magazines blends wartime tension with pulp sci-fi, all captured in a striking cover by Ferstadt himself.

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artist Lou Ferstadt · inker L. B. Cole · cover Lou Ferstadt

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artist Lou Ferstadt

inker L. B. Cole

cover pencils, inks Lou Ferstadt

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The Sword has to face the Genius, a little man with big ideas, the most prominent of which was death for hundreds of American sailors and thousands of Yankee soldiers.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).