"Poison for Rats" in All-New Comics 11 p 39 (Spring 1945)

"Poison for Rats" in All-New Comics 11 p 39 (Spring 1945)
by Pierce Rice (1916-2003)
18 x 24 in, ink on paper

Pierce Rice was a comic book artist during the Golden Age of American comics and in later years a successul classical artist and teacher. Coming from Brooklyn, New York, Rice attended the Pratt Institute and began working in comic books in 1939, initially through the Iger shop, but shortly afterwards through his own studio with Arturo and Louis Cazeneuve.

He worked for Fox Comics, Fawcett and Centaur, but mainly for Harvey, doing features like 'Zebra', 'Green Hornet', 'Captain Freedom' and 'Black Cat'. Rice was drafted in the US Army in 1943, where he served in World War II's European theater and drew for the Seventh Army Newspaper in Heidelberg.

"Poison for Rats" is a six page story that I have in its entirety.