Wanted Comics comic books issue 25

Cover by Mort Lawrence. Stories and art by Rafael Astarita, Art Peddy 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. Wiped out by the stock market, Henry hires a killer to murder him, so his family will get the insurance money. The bloody rise and fall of well-dressed gangster Dapper Morton. The real-life story of Norman "Red" Ryan, who led a double life as a reformed ex-con and radio host, while still running an armed-robbery gang. Blind Alley; The Extreme Penalty; The Gunner; The Biffer; Crime Never Pays Off!; Wanted: Henry Anger; Wanted: Enos Berringer, Jr.; The Reformed Rascal. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

"Nuggets Strikes It Rich" (art by Mort Leav and others), "Nuggets Nugent the Bullfighter," "Silent Guns," "Terror of the Bush," and "Blood Money" (art by Mort Lawrence). Cover by Mort Lawrence. Stories by Mort Leav, Mort Lawrence, Bob Rogers, Bernie Krigstein, Art Peddy, and Rudy Palais. True tales from the Old West, starring such real-life characters as Wild Bill Pecos, King Cullen, Nuggets Nugent, Clay Allison, and Ned Kelly. 52 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.