Monster Crime Comics #1

When two thugs corner petty hoodlum Louie Maddox in an alley, he makes a desperate escape into the grounds of an old estate, where a kind stranger named Matt Jones offers him shelter. Grateful and scheming, Louie sees his newfound refuge as the perfect hideout for bigger crimes, and he begins a crime spree across the city—confident that his lucky gate will always be there to save him. But as Louie's crimes escalate and the heat closes in, he'll discover that even the best hiding place can't protect a man from his own choices.

When Johnny Hanna's father is gunned down in a warehouse on Halloween Eve, the grieving boy swears vengeance on Lou Mackler, the man he believes pulled the trigger—but he chooses a different path, building an honest life as a furniture mover while quietly investigating his father's murder from the shadows. Twenty years later, as another Halloween approaches, John Hanna's carefully constructed world begins to crack under the weight of old promises and new complications, drawing him inexorably back to the warehouse where it all began. What unfolds that fateful night carries a twist that cuts far deeper than the revenge he'd planned.

When jewelry fences Charlie Boggs and Duncan fall into a deadly partnership dispute, Duncan seizes the chance to cut his rival out—and out of the picture. Years later, Duncan operates under an assumed name and false mustache, but his past catches up when Tony Cuda recognizes him and begins to squeeze him for blackmail money. As Duncan navigates the treacherous underworld of Sam Roamer's criminal empire, his carefully constructed new life spirals toward a violent reckoning on the fog-shrouded water.

When two killers escape from an Oregon prison in 1924, one of them—Fred Craig—evades the manhunt for weeks before turning up in a small town, where he takes Sheriff Roy Ellis's wife hostage in their own home. Mrs. Ellis must think fast to alert her husband to Craig's presence without giving herself away. What unfolds is a tense confrontation between a desperate fugitive and the lawman determined to bring him to justice.

Frankie Sammis is a small-time loudmouth desperate to climb the criminal ranks by peddling underworld gossip—but his compulsive blabbing soon turns him into a walking target caught between warring mobsters. When his tips prove valuable to big players like Spanish Ike, Frankie finally feels respected, yet the precarious status forces him into increasingly dangerous schemes to stay relevant. As his words trigger a chain of violence he can't control, Frankie discovers that being a useful stool pigeon comes with a deadly price.