Wanted Comics #11

In this true-crime tale from 1948, Hugh, Ray, and Roy De Autremont—three brothers with a ruthless streak—orchestrate a brutal train robbery that sets off one of the greatest manhunts in law enforcement history. When the brothers manage to elude capture for four years, the relentless agents of the F.B.I., including Agent Raleigh and Mr. Myers, begin closing in on their hiding places. Follow the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game as the law hunts the killers across continents and finally corners them in the most unlikely places.

A privileged college student from a good family, Dwight Bard, abandons his comfortable life to pursue a career in crime, graduating from street violence to robbery and murder in his ruthless climb through the underworld. As Bard evades law enforcement across multiple identities and increasingly brutal crimes, an admiring narrator tracks his escalating exploits with dark fascination. When the law finally catches up, Bard faces the ultimate reckoning—but even a death sentence may not be the end of his story.

Juan Diaz dreams of wealth when he's invited to a remote gold mine in the Matto Grasso jungle, but his greed leads him to betray the old miner Matt and seize the treasure for himself. After fleeing to Porto Barrios and falling in with con artists who drug him and steal his map, Juan awakens to find them dead—only to discover that the jungle itself, and the ghost of his victim, won't let him escape the price of his crime. In this 1948 tale, the wilderness becomes both witness and executioner to one man's unchecked ambition.

Wilbur Underhill starts as a born killer caught up in Prohibition-era hi-jacking, but his hunger for violence grows so consuming that it isolates him from the criminals around him—and draws the relentless attention of law enforcement. Framed as a cautionary tale narrated by an evil top-hatted figure who takes a twisted interest in Underhill's criminal career, this true crime story follows the outlaw's descent through robberies, murder, and repeated imprisonment as his obsession with killing threatens to be his undoing.