Police Trap #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Police Trap #18 This issue contains at least two stories. "Shanghaied!" follows Johnny Devine and his associates as they smuggle ninety men aboard ships at the waterfront in 1859, with plans to transport them to the city of Frisco, but the Shanghai Chicken becomes an unreliable accomplice and is eventually shanghaied himself aboard the steamer Wilson Guthrie. In a second story, escaped convicts disguise themselves in old prison outfits and hide at a hotel; police set a trap, surrounding the building and attempting to capture them without bloodshed, though the criminals attempt to flee. A third story involves a warehouse heist where a replica of the Tylerville Bank is constructed to practice the timing of a theft, but the criminals' plan falls apart when an alarm is triggered and police close in on the operation.
In 1859, Johnny Devine, a man with a sharp tongue and a knack for trouble, finds himself shanghaied after a drink at the Two-Friends Saloon, unwittingly signing on for a grueling voyage on the Golden Arrow. Forced to endure months at sea, he learns the hard way what it means to be a victim of the infamous "Shanghai Chicken," a title he’ll later earn for himself. Now a seasoned crimp, he rules the Barbary Coast with a mix of cunning and brutality, but his reign is challenged when a rival crimp tries to muscle in on his territory.
Harry Loomis, a disgruntled man with a grudge against society, stages a fake drowning with his girlfriend Edna Loring to disappear and launch a new life as a movie producer. He recruits a gang of criminals to help stage a bank heist as part of a film, but when real police arrive during a rehearsal, chaos erupts and the line between performance and reality begins to blur.
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