Wanted Comics #34

In 1951, the First National Bank of Whitman, Nebraska falls victim to an armed robbery when a tense man bursts through its doors at opening time and forces the teller to hand over cash at gunpoint. The bandit believes he's made a clean escape, but a bank receptionist has spotted him leaving the scene—setting the stage for this true-crime wanted notice featuring John Lewis Carey.

When a decades-old vendetta between two Italian families resurfaces in America, Pietro Scotti discovers that his son's murder bears the fingerprints of his childhood enemy, Nick Napolo—yet the law's hands are tied without proof. Forced to watch his killers walk free, Pietro faces an agonizing choice between the justice system that failed him and the blood feud that has already cost him everything. This crime story explores how the old ways of vengeance collide with the new world's rules, and whether one man can break a cycle that's spanned generations.

When a wealthy businessman is shot dead on the street, Lieutenant Dundy and Doctor Gage discover a mysterious clue at the scene—a broken tin whistle—that sets them on a trail through the city's criminal underworld. As the investigators piece together evidence from the crime scene and Pryor's personal affairs, the whistle becomes the key to unmasking the real killer. This police procedural pulls no punches in following the case from the pavement to the interrogation room.

When a robbery at a jewelry store goes wrong, desperate criminal Robert Bordick kills a witness to cover his tracks—only to have a wounded accomplice expose him to the police anyway. With nowhere left to turn, Bordick hides out at his brother-in-law Ed Simmons' saloon, where a talking green parrot becomes an unexpected observer to everything that unfolds.