Wanted Comics #9

Young Victor Everhart grows up under a shadow—a circus sharpshooter whose parents die in a tragic accident, leaving him adrift and desperate. When legitimate work dries up, his natural talent with a gun becomes his only currency, and a chance encounter with temptation sets him on a darker path toward armed robbery and murder. As the heat closes in and his crimes mount, Victor recruits a starry-eyed partner into his escalating criminal spree, drawing ever closer to the reckoning that awaits a man who's learned to solve every problem with a bullet.

Jay Jostyn, known to radio audiences as Mr. District Attorney, recounts the troubling case of a young boy named Tommy Nelson, whose neglectful parents and desperate need to belong drive him toward a street gang involved in petty theft. When Tommy's conscience costs him dearly—betrayed by his own gang and caught up in a violent assault—he faces the courts and learns a hard lesson about loyalty and consequence. Through intervention, psychiatric care, and genuine human kindness, Tommy discovers there's a path away from crime that begins not in prison, but in finding a place where he truly belongs.

A mysterious locked suitcase passes through the hands of a jewelry store thief, a desperate fugitive, and a junkman—each owner meeting a violent end—while a strange little man pursues it relentlessly, convinced that death awaits anyone who discovers what lies inside. As the cursed case changes hands again and again, the bodies pile up, and the little man draws ever closer to reclaiming it. Will he catch up before yet another doomed soul unlocks the terrible secret within?