Wanted Comics #25

A stock market collapse leaves Henry Inco desperate enough to hire a gangster to kill him—for insurance money to protect his family—but fate intervenes when an old friend offers him a second chance. Now Henry must confront the horrifying reality that he's set his own execution in motion, and there's no taking it back. As paranoia and terror consume him, Henry discovers that running from death is far easier than running from the man he hired to deliver it.

When police pick up Henry Anger for questioning about a gas station robbery in Augusta, Georgia, his refusal to talk earns him an unexpected invitation into a bigger score—a fortune in stolen silk from a freight train heist. But what Anger doesn't know is that a detective's hunch has led him straight into a trap, and when the police spring their ambush at the garage, the criminal manages to slip away into the shadows. Wanted for over a decade, Henry Anger remains at large, and the law won't rest until he faces justice.

Dapper Morton rose from a mean, friendless kid to a hardened gangster who thought himself above the law, but when a million-dollar armored car robbery goes catastrophically wrong, he's forced to flee back to his childhood home—where his estranged brother forces a reckoning neither man will survive intact. This tale traces how a lifetime of cruelty and crime leads inexorably to the electric chair, showing that every transgression carries a price.

Jackie Dolan earns his reputation as "the Gunner" during Prohibition, commanding a machine gun with lethal skill—until his wife pushes him toward bigger scores with her partner Charlie Donovan. When a woman named Molly proposes a kidnapping scheme targeting a wealthy man, the trio executes what should be their final, lucrative job, only to learn that their captive has connections and plans of his own. As law enforcement closes in, Jackie discovers that greed and ambition can leave you just as exposed as any hideout.

"The Biffer" Ellison rose through the brutal gang wars of turn-of-the-century New York as a ruthless enforcer, collecting tribute from shopkeepers along his territory with nothing but his trusty blackjack. When he discovers someone else muscling in on his racket, Ellison sets out to find the culprit—but a chance encounter in Central Park spirals into violence that draws both a dangerous rival and the full weight of the law down on him. This gritty crime tale follows Ellison through a desperate chase across the Bowery and down to the docks, where his reign finally comes to a reckoning.

Enos Berringer Jr. has spent over three decades on the wrong side of the law, from armed robbery to forgery, and each prison sentence only hardens his resolve to stay in the criminal game. Now wanted for his latest crimes, this habitual offender remains a dangerous man determined never to be caged again. The law is closing in—but will justice finally catch up with one of crime's most persistent repeat offenders?

Norman "Red" Ryan, a career criminal with more nerve than sense, engineers a daring jailbreak and disappears into the swamp with his gang, only to resurface pulling off bold crimes—including a brazen bank robbery where he poses as a baby-sitter. But when Inspector Thomas E. Duncan methodically traces their every move, Ryan's luck begins to crumble, and a single mistake made at a crucial moment threatens to derail everything he's worked toward.