Wanted Comics comic books issue 20

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by William Woolfolk, Mort Leav, Maurice Del Bourgo, and Mort Lawrence. Bloody pre-Code crime comics, in imitation of Crime Does Not Pay - including a top-hatted, otherworldly narrator. The twist is that the publisher offers wanted posters (and rewards) for real-life criminals. Strait-laced, seemingly honest bank teller Mortimer must arrange a bank robbery to cover up the money he's been embezzling. A reporter investigates a drive-by murder and finds evidence the cops don't have. Private eye The Tracer is hired to prove a charity organizer is siphoning funds, but when his client is murdered, it becomes personal. Also featuring a vintage ad for "authentic replicas" of WWII Axis handguns. The Strange Case of Mortimer Dollard; The World's Dirtiest Racket; Wanted: Walter Evans Connell; Public Enemies; Strands of Hair; Wanted: Joseph Charles Bartos; Danger Stalks the City; Wanted: George Emerous Morgan. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Wild Bill Pecos in "Badman's Land" (art by Mort Leav), plus "Fast Draw Artist" (art by Mort Lawrence), "Remember the Alamo," and "River Pirates" (art by Lawrence). Edited by Ray R. Hermann. Cover by Mort Leav. Stories by William Woolfolk and Mort Lawrence. True tales from the Old West, starring such real-life characters as Wild Bill Pecos, Sheriff Jud Benson, and General Sam Houston. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.