Wanted Comics (1947 Orbit / Toytown) 21
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Issue #21
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Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Bernie Krigstein, Mort Leav, Aldo Rubano, Maurice Del Bourgo, R. Burdick, and Mort Lawrence. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. After murdering a man in a fight over a woman, country boy Henry assumes both the dead man's identity and his life of crime. A retired actor has a scheme to get his hands on his wife's fortune, in an early story by future EC art legend Bernie Krigstein. Roger gets caught up in the numbers game...and murder. Henry Verne Alias Jim Shalley, the Country Boy Killer; Wanted: Frederick K. Peters; The Would-Be Dillinger; The Mistake; Wanted: Harry Burton; The Devil's Heart; The Most Deadly Racket. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
