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Wanted Comics #16

Nov 1948 · Orbit-Wanted · 0.10 USD
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The criminal Jack Parisi is the subject of a police manhunt after his gang murders the devoted father and husband Irving Penn. Despite careful planning by Parisi and his associates to frame Penn's death on someone else, the plot unravels when their intended victim fails to keep an appointment at a barbershop, forcing the killers to make a fatal error that leads police to identify the real victim. Two gang members are quickly captured, while a third attempts to escape the city, but Parisi himself remains at large and dangerous. The issue concludes with an appeal to readers to aid police in capturing the desperate criminal who killed an innocent man.

Contains 5 stories
The Musical Demon
14 pp · Crime
Erik Blaine [Jonathan Clemm]Mrs. Van AlsteenLorettaSkip TracerPatricia Frivar (death)Isabel La TorreIrving Penn (death)Jack Parisi (cameo)

A young pianist named Jonathan Clemm finds his brilliant concert career shadowed by a maddening noise only he can hear—a private investigator hired by his fiancée, Patricia Frivar, begins tracking his movements and discovers troubling connections between Clemm and a murder. As Skip Tracer digs deeper, he uncovers a darker history beneath the glamorous musician's rise to fame, setting him on a collision course with a man teetering between genius and madness.

Double For Destiny
9 pp · Crime
Emmet Riley (transformed into Harry Sands)Harry Sands [Cliffside Strangler] (deathtransformed into Emmet Riley)Hillary Wayne (death)Albert Dehrer (death)Martha DehrerPolice officer Evans

When the notorious Cliffside Strangler, Harry Sands, goes to his execution in 1948 vowing an impossible return, playwright Emmet Riley finds himself inexplicably caught up in the killer's cryptic final curse. A strange twist of fate draws Riley into a bewildering mystery where he must uncover the truth behind Sands' dying words—and discover what role he's been chosen to play in this sinister game. Trapped between destiny and deception, Riley races to understand the ghastly secret that binds him to a dead man.

Wanted
2 pp · Crime
Roy Stewart [Roy Otto StewartRaymond Otto StewartCharlie BlayerFrank Bettie]E.V. Dixon (death)Police Chief Robinson (death)

Playwright Emmet Riley becomes so obsessed with writing a play about the executed Cliffside Killer that he immerses himself in the criminal's life and thoughts—only to suffer a blow to the head that awakens something dark within him. Now believing himself to be the killer returned from the dead, Riley begins hunting down those connected to the case, leaving the police scrambling to track him down before his twisted vendetta claims more victims.

The End of Gerard Chappe!
9 pp · Crime
Gerard ChappeWarden of Sing Sing Prison (cameo)Dutch AndersonCharlie LoerberFrankie (police officer)Skelly (police officerdeath)Sheriff

Gerard Chappe, a brilliant criminal mastermind, springs from prison in 1921 with grand ambitions—and quickly assembles Dutch Anderson and Charlie Loerber to pull off an audacious mail truck heist worth over two million dollars. The robbery succeeds spectacularly, but Chappe's perfect plan begins to unravel when one of his partners decides to talk, setting off a chain of events that tests whether even the sharpest mind can outsmart the law.

Secret of the Seas
8 pp · Crime
Jonesy (death)Horgan

A desperate man clinging to life on a storm-tossed raft washes ashore on a desolate island—only to find himself rescued by Jonesy, a solitary hermit who claims the island is his kingdom, enriched by centuries of treasures delivered by the sea. When the castaway learns of a legendary Spanish treasure ship that went down nearby, his desperation turns to greed, and he'll stop at nothing to claim the hidden fortune—but the ocean has its own reckoning in store.

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Raw (Good) $14
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $829*
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $542*
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 1 in census $267*
CGC 8.0 none in existence
CGC 7.5 none in existence
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CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $138*
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artist, inker Mort Leav
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