Wanted Comics #12

In 1920s Chicago, a narrator recounts his friendship with three young criminals—Johnny Scalli, Al Anselimo, and Joe Ginta—who grew from petty street thieves into hardened bootleggers during Prohibition, building a lucrative liquor operation that catches the attention of Al Capone. When Capone's enforcer Killer Korro arrives with an offer to buy their still, the Trigger Happy Trio faces a dangerous proposition they can't refuse. Watch as these ruthless entrepreneurs navigate the treacherous underworld, where loyalty means nothing and a wrong move could be their last.

Ralph Roe, a hardened criminal and former partner of killer Wilbur Underhill, found himself serving ninety-nine years on Alcatraz—the supposedly escape-proof prison. After befriending fellow inmate Theodore Cole, Roe hatched an audacious plan to do what no prisoner had done before: break out of the Rock. On a foggy December night in 1937, the two men sawed through bars and plunged into the treacherous waters of San Francisco Bay, and though no trace of them was ever found, their impossible escape stands as one of the most baffling prison breaks in history.

Chester Smith, a hired hand complicit in a brutal 1933 murder scheme, escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary in 1945 and remains at large. This true-crime account details how Smith and fellow hand Clyde Bourne assisted David Miller in shooting down farmer Elijah Cramlett and his wife after Cramlett discovered Miller's role in a series of devastating barn arsons—earning the hired men a mere twenty-five dollars each for their involvement in cold-blooded murder.

On the lawless Natchez Trace, two brothers—Micajah and Willy Harpe, known as Big Harpe and Little Harpe—terrorize travelers with savage robberies and murders that number in the hundreds. When the brothers pose as men of the cloth to gather information about the posse hunting them, they strike at the home of a hospitable family, setting in motion a pursuit that will determine the fate of at least one of these heartless killers. This true crime story from 1948 captures the brutal reality of frontier justice against two of history's most savage outlaws.

A man claiming to be a Polish war hero ingratiates himself into the home of Mrs. Stella Miodusciewski as a boarder, earning her trust through tales of underground resistance during World War II. When his true nature is revealed, authorities are on the hunt—this 1948 wanted poster profiles Wawrzyniec Kleczewski, a former fireman known to haunt Polish taverns and social clubs, offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to his capture.

In 1948, this true-crime account traces the rise and fall of the Bronx Boys—a vicious gang of killers led by a former associate of Dutch Schultz—from their first brutal robbery in 1930 through years of escalating violence across New York's underworld. When their reckless kidnapping of the bookie Bat Salov draws the wrath of Lucky Luciano's organized crime network, the gang finds themselves hunted by forces far more ruthless than they ever anticipated. This hard-hitting biography exposes the brutality and eventual unraveling of men who thought their guns made them untouchable.