Public Enemies #3

When a paroled hoodlum idolizes John Dillinger, he embarks on a brutal crime spree across six states with Nancy Bailey, a young woman who believes his promises of a fresh start—unaware she's become his unwitting accomplice in a trail of robbery and murder. Art Gates illustrates this true-crime cautionary tale of how obsession with a criminal legend can corrupt a life and destroy everyone around it. By the time the law closes in, Lester Brockle has learned that his hero worship comes with a terrible price.

In the slums of New York, three broke young men—Pete Gugliemetti, Alfred Cozzi, and Fred Correllini—turn to armed robbery, holding up crap games across the city to fund their nights out dancing. When the heat comes down and the games dry up, they escalate to a violent nightclub robbery that leaves a police officer mortally wounded, setting off a manhunt that will catch up with them all.

Tony "The Stinger" Malone, Philadelphia's most feared assassin and hired killer, arrives in the city with unfinished business and muscles his way into Nick's speakeasy—forcing the club owner to hide him from both the cops and rival mobsters who want him dead. When two of Nick's employees, eager for the big time, sign on with Stinger for what promises to be an easy ten-thousand-dollar payroll robbery, they discover that working for the underworld's most ruthless gunman comes with a brutality that even seasoned crooks weren't prepared to face.

A clerk who fancies himself a wealthy executive meets a beautiful woman at the racetrack, and falls hard—but keeping up the lie costs everything. With his savings depleted and his heart on the line, he makes a desperate choice that transforms him into a thief, and discovers too late that the woman he stole for had plans of her own all along. Art Gates illustrates this tale of love, deception, and betrayal from Public Enemies #3.

A Chicago doctor gets a late-night call for what he's told is a house call—only to discover he's been forced to operate on a wounded criminal at gunpoint. Trapped with ruthless killers and their unwitting girlfriend, Dr. Lang must navigate a terrifying night where one wrong move could cost him and his family their lives, all while piecing together the real story of how his "patient" got shot. With pencils by Eddie Robbins, this 1948 crime tale asks how far a doctor will go to survive—and whether his only escape is to turn informant.