Wanted Comics #31

A charming stranger sweeps a young governess off her feet in Des Moines, but when a mad dog attack proves his heroism and romance blooms, Mary Winford's new husband seems oddly eager to distance himself—and even more oddly, two separate "accidents" nearly claim her life. As the police close in on a serial wife murderer known only as Robert Bagru, Mary finds herself caught between love and a terrible suspicion about the man she's married.

This 1950 true-crime feature spotlights Michael Consolo, a wanted fugitive with a distinctive scar, who emerges from prison in April 1946 on New York's Lower East Side seeking violent revenge against a former associate. After a deadly confrontation, Consolo flees the scene and remains at large—armed, dangerous, and the subject of an active manhunt. The story presents the case as a stark warning, urging readers to report any sightings to authorities immediately.

In the summer of 1947, state trooper Ed Rondeau stops a man loading stolen silverware into his car in Hood River, Oregon—a routine traffic stop that turns tragic when the suspect, John Oscar Pinson, shoots the officer and flees. Police set up roadblocks across the state, and Pinson's reckless escape ends in a crash; he's sentenced to life imprisonment, but in May 1949, he saws his way through the penitentiary window bars and vanishes. Now authorities continue their hunt for this cold-blooded killer, determined to bring him back behind bars.

Born an orphan with a knack for crime, Ed Fabian claws his way to the top of a ruthless mob—and hatches a brilliant scheme that uses the everyday vehicles of the dawn shift to pull off a string of audacious robberies. As detective Martin Bagley begins to piece together the pattern behind the hits, Fabian's iron grip on his gang grows tighter, but cunning alone may not be enough to stay ahead of the law.

When actress Karen Lacy kills her producer in a moment of rage over contract disputes, she devises what seems like the perfect cover-up—planting his body in her drained swimming pool and spinning a tale of tragic drunken accident to the police. But as Lieutenant Dundy investigates, a single overlooked detail threatens to unravel her carefully constructed alibi, and it's up to you, the reader, to spot the telltale clue before the detective does.

Lee Emery Downs, a career criminal with a string of aliases, plans and executes a bold payroll robbery at the San Jose Telephone Company on June 3rd, 1948, alongside an accomplice. This real-crime account, drawn from FBI records, tracks the dangerous heist and the manhunt that followed.

When a catastrophic nightclub fire claims lives in 1941, Harry Armstrong and his fiancée Sylvia Parker barely escape—but Sylvia carries invisible scars that haunt her long after recovery. As phantom sounds and visions of the blaze plague her mind, Harry stands by her side, desperate to help her break free from the terror that won't let go. "The Corpse Laughed Last!" traces the desperate measures a devoted husband will take to protect the woman he loves from a darkness that may be more than mere trauma.