Wanted Comics #29

Three young men bound by blood oath—Aldo Szelli, Vince Calmar, and Wally Fort—begin as petty street hoods helping each other out of jams, only to graduate into armed robbery and a life on the run. When Wally's solo score goes wrong during his honeymoon, he lands in prison while his pals promise to look after his wife Ellen and their shared criminal enterprise. As months pass and the monthly payments continue, whispers surface that Ellen has caught the eye of Pete Laredi, a major player in the underworld—threatening to shatter the bond that once made the three musketeers unbreakable.

Henry Devon's world becomes a nightmare when he survives a strange attack at the train station—only to discover that someone else has taken his place, accepted by his wife Vivian Mare, his employers, and everyone who knows him as Henry Devon himself. Desperate to prove his identity after the police dismiss his claims as delusion, Henry must track down the impostor who has stolen not just his name, but his entire life, leading to a shocking confrontation that defies all logic.

Eleanor Gifford ignores her friends' warnings and heads home alone on a cold January night in 1949—only to be confronted by a mugger demanding her pocketbook. When a police patrol car happens by and she cries for help, the robber's accomplice, the wanted killer James Stewart, manages to slip away in the chaos, but his partner isn't so lucky. At headquarters, the captured criminal decides to talk, fingering Stewart and providing the details that will put the dangerous fugitive on the wanted list.

When John Landrus discovers Judge Whittaker murdered with his own Chinese dagger, suspicion falls squarely on the young man—especially when his fingerprints are found on the weapon. But John knows the truth: he witnessed a wooden ventriloquist's dummy confess to the crime, though no one believes him, and his sanity becomes the real mystery to solve. As John struggles to prove he's not mad, he must unmask the killer hiding behind the dummy before the case closes forever.

When petty crook Howard F. Bent Jr. and a desperate friend plot a grocery store robbery in San Diego, they think they've found their ticket to easy money—but a quick-thinking clerk has other plans. What starts as a daring heist quickly unravels when the police close in, forcing the two men to scatter and fend for themselves as the heat turns up.

A young man named Thomas O'Connor spirals from a jealous rage in Chicago into a life of violent crime—orchestrating an armored car heist with criminal associate Benny Rinelli, only to betray his gang to keep the loot for himself. On the run in a remote mountain hideout, O'Connor's paranoia and trigger-happy nature lead to a fatal mistake that brings him back to face justice. His desperate escape attempt from a condemned building takes a grim, inescapable turn that proves the old saying: crime truly is a dead end.