Women Outlaws #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis is an anthology containing true crime and western-themed stories about female outlaws and criminals. The issue features "Jack Zuta: Chicago's Brutal Killer," a true crime story about the ruthless mafia enforcer and his violent exploits in New York; "Gang Leaders," which chronicles Frankie Yale's rise in the Sicilian Mafia and the Black Hand Society before his death in a gang war; and a story involving a female character named Dorothy caught in criminal circumstances, with references to the Baccia gang and plans to extort money. The cover advertises a $10,000 reward for the capture of "Cattle Kate," presented as a famous western outlaw.
Jack Zuta, a man wanted by Chicago's cops and hunted by Al Capone's gang alike, desperately seeks police protection after being linked to a murder—but the authorities have little patience for a hood begging for his life. As Zuta goes on the run and multiple forces converge on his hiding place, the question becomes whether the law or the underworld will find him first.
Frankie Yale rises from petty Sicilian criminality to become a feared lieutenant in New York's underworld, leveraging violence and ruthlessness to climb the ranks—but his ascent in the Mafia world carries the seeds of his own destruction. Though he beats murder charges through cunning or connections, Yale's legacy becomes a cautionary tale: his rise and fall reflect the brutal code of the criminal enterprise he served.
Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, "Bugsy" Goldstein rose from petty theft to become a feared knife artist and member of Murder Incorporated, the gang that industrialized contract killing. This is the cautionary true-crime tale of how a small-time criminal built a reputation as one of the most dangerous men in organized crime—before justice finally caught up with him.
During Prohibition's violent heyday, Larry Baccia and his five brothers claw their way up Chicago's bootlegging underworld, landing themselves a powerful position controlling the Unione Sicilione—but their ambitions draw the deadly attention of Al Capone and rival gangsters who won't tolerate the competition. As alliances fracture and blood spills across the city, the Baccia family discovers that in the gangland wars of the 1920s, loyalty is the rarest commodity of all.
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Reprinted in Almanac of Crime #[1] (1948), Gwandanaland Comics #752 (2017)
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