A cat named
The Insect Master is terrorizing
Metropolis, using his trained bugs to cause devastation (in order to set up a big extortion payoff from the city). Termites are collapsing big building!! Moths are destroying the fashion district!!
After
Superman cleans up those messes, he's just in time to see a swarm of locusts attacking the
Horticultural Gardens (as opposed to the non-horticultural gardens...?)
So how does the
Man Of Steel deal with a swarm of locusts? Blow them away/freeze them with super-breath? Gather them in his indestructible cape?
Nope. He's gonna smoosh 'em all--
by hand!!
Yes, Superman killed "
hundreds of thousands" of locusts...by hand!!
At least he didn't use pesticides...
From World's Finest Comics #10 (1943)
This looks like fairly early Golden Age Superman, judging from the art and the speech balloons; so he wouldn't have had the freeze breath or the heat vision, which I agree would have been much more efficient than hand squishing.
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