Wanted Comics #10

Carlo Barone, the ruthless "Mad Dog" partner of the Esposito brothers, leads a criminal crew through murder, robbery, and loan-sharking in this hard-boiled crime tale. When the gang's schemes draw heat from the police, their brotherhood—and their grip on the underworld—begins to crack under pressure. Watch as ambition, betrayal, and bullets reshape the hierarchy of this vicious mob.

Charles Wallace is a brilliant bank clerk who believes his chess-playing mind could orchestrate the perfect crime—until greed and a whispered inner voice drive him to rob his employer's customer, Aunt Jean Green, of ten thousand dollars. When his carefully laid plan goes catastrophically wrong and innocent lives are lost, Wallace discovers that no amount of cunning can outthink fate itself.

When J.D. and his crew launch a protection racket targeting the city's shoe-shine kids, Jay Jostyn learns of their extortion scheme and alerts the authorities. As the police move in on their hideout, J.D.'s desperate gambit with a faulty gun ends in explosive failure, leading to arrests and courtroom drama where the young criminals turn on each other. Jostyn leaves the trial troubled, wrestling with a harder question than justice: how to prevent kids from becoming criminals in the first place.

Basil "The Owl" Banghart was once a major player in the underworld—bootlegging, armed robbery, kidnapping—but his luck finally caught up with him, landing him in federal penitentiary with sentences stacking toward 135 years. This crime saga traces his rise through the Prohibition era, his explosive escapes, and his partnership with Roger Touhy in a string of increasingly desperate jobs. Watch as the man who thought himself too clever for any cage faces a system determined to keep him locked away.