Wanted Comics (1947 Orbit / Toytown) comic books 1947-1949

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Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav, Bill Woolfolk and Mort Lawrence. Numbering continues from Toy Town Comics (1945) #7; there was no issue #8. 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. After his parents are killed, vaudeville sharpshooter Victor decides to use his marksmanship for crime. An early story about juvenile delinquency featuring Jay Jostyn, star of the popular radio crime show "Mr. District Attorney." A mysterious locked suitcase brings death and misfortune to everyone who touches it. Victor Everhart, the Murdering Marksman; Loot; Rector the Hectic Detective; Tom Smith, the Fearless Marshall; Jay Jostyn, Radio's Mr. District Attorney; The Sinister Suitcase. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav, John Giunta 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. Chess master Charles decides to use his cunning mind to commit the perfect crime. A juvenile delinquent starts a junior-league protection racket, in a story featuring Jay Jostyn, star of the popular radio crime show "Mr. District Attorney." Irene and Glenn go on a cross-country spree of robbery and murder. The Case of the Mad Dog Killers; The Unforeseen!; The Case of the Laughing Killer!; Irene Schroeder, the Gun Girl!; Jay Jostyn, Radio's Mr. District Attorney: The Case of the Boy Who Ate a Dog; Rogues Gallery; Basil "The Owl" Banghart: The Man No Prison Could Hold. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by John Giunta. Stories and art by 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. Brothers Hugh, Ray and Roy start with train robbery, and end as the subjects of an FBI manhunt. Dwight is a wealthy son of privilege, but he turns to robbery, murder and jailbreak. Greed for gold turns deadly in the rainforests of the Matto Grosso, but the jungle takes its revenge. The Twin Killers; Son of Satan!; The Pay Off!; The Case of the Corpse in the Woods; Terror of 3 States, Wilbur Underhill. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav 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. This issue was cited in the text (page 277) of the famous anti-comics classic, Seduction of the Innocent. The Trigger Happy Trio winds up on the wrong end of Al Capone and his baseball bat. The true story of the first escape from Alcatraz. On the American frontier, the Harpe brothers make a reputation as the Sawney Beans of America, with robbery, murder, and perhaps even cannibalism. The Trigger Happy Trio!; The Battle of the Rock!; The Horrible Harpes; Wild Bill Hickok; The Butchers. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav, Maurice Del Bourgo and Rudy Palais. 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. The true story of Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and the busting of the heroin racket. The story of murdering highwaymen Big and Little Harpe continues from issue #12, with the fate of Little Harpe. The true story of the infamous Salem Witch Trials that claimed more than twenty lives in colonial America. Plus a vintage ad for "How to Hypnotize." International Enemy No.1; Wanted: Larry Fay; Wanted: James Spencer; Be on the Lookout for Arlis Wagner; The Last of the Harpes; Skip Tracer; Wanted: Joseph Anthony Cacciola; Wanted: Fred Poole; The Salem Terror; The Butchers. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav, Maurice Del Bourgo, Mort Lawrence and Bob Rogers. 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. Rejected by a girl in high school, rotund loser Jack Zarto grows up to become a gangster to get back at Society. Private eye Skip Tracer witnesses a kidnapping, and gets mixed up in a $3 million bank heist in Chicago. A trunk purchased at a lost-luggage auction turns out to be filled with marijuana. Big Jack Zarto; The Great Chicago Vault Robbery; Wanted: Vincent Pellicer; Death of a Ragged Stranger!; A Dog's Death!; Mr. Dynamite. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Mort Leav, Maurice Del Bourgo, and Bill Woolfolk. 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. In the 1880s, the arrival of the Black Hand extortion racket signals the birth of the Mafia in the US. Detectives investigate a series of murders that seem to be linked to a revenge scheme. Private eye Skip Tracer is jumped by a killer masquerading as a deputy, in a story with some eerie art. The Black Hand; The Tombstone; Guilty or Not Guilty; Sleepy-Eyed Killer; The Badge Bandit. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Bernie Krigstein, Mort Leav, Maurice Del Bourgo, and Bill Woolfolk. 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. A playwright discovers the horrible truth about a condemned killer's final message. An escaped convict tries to elude police, in an early story with inks by future EC art legend Bernie Krigstein. Private eye Skip Tracer investigates a star pianist who has a deadly hidden nature. The Musical Demon; Double For Destiny; What Happened to the Cyclops?; Wanted: Roy Stewart; The End of Gerard Chappel; Secret of the Seas. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by 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. Police in Budapest discover that the legendary killer called The Bat has seemingly returned to life. A man who cheated the Mob waits anxiously to make his escape before the killers catch up with him. Private eye Skip Tracer is hired to track the young killer known as the Shotgun Kid. The Shotgun Kid; Wanted: Heber Ayers; The Devil Bat; The Highwayman; Charley Ross C.M.H; Ring…Three Times. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Jerry Robinson, Mort Meskin, William Woolfolk, 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. A cautionary tale about marijuana, with art by Batman legend Jerry Robinson and Golden Age artist Mort Meskin. A comics version of the famous horror tale "The Monkey's Paw." Private eye Skip Tracer investigates the murder of a wealthy man who happened to wander down Dead Mans Street. Also featuring a vintage ad for "authentic replicas" of WWII Axis handguns. Dead Mans Street!; Wanted: Walter Joseph Landreth; Satans Cigarettes; The Right-Wrong Change!; The Third Wish; Crime and Doom Are Partners! 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by 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. Bitter butcher Hal builds a big business out of his small-time protection racket. A passionate reporter (who looks a little like Clark Kent) gets deeply involved in covering a crime story. Private eye Skip Tracer (now just called The Tracer) investigates after a man is framed for murder by gangsters. Also featuring a vintage ad for "authentic replicas" of WWII Axis handguns. Business Man Bandit; Wanted: Joseph M. Dentico; Dawn Deadline; Wanted; No Escape; The Accusing Heartbeat; Wanted: Jackson Stringer; The Man Who Couldn't Kill. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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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.

Cover by Mort Leav. Stories and art by Bernie Krigstein, Mort Leav, Aldo Rubano, Maurice Del Bourgo, R. Burdick, 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. After murdering a man in a fight over a woman, country boy Henry assumes both the dead man's identity and his life of crime. A retired actor has a scheme to get his hands on his wife's fortune, in an early story by future EC art legend Bernie Krigstein. Roger gets caught up in the numbers game...and murder. Henry Verne Alias Jim Shalley, the Country Boy Killer; Wanted: Frederick K. Peters; The Would-Be Dillinger; The Mistake; Wanted: Harry Burton; The Devil's Heart; The Most Deadly Racket. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Mort Lawrence. Stories and art by Mort Leav, John Forte, 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. A trio of crooks aboard a boat gets into a running gun battle with a Coast Guard patrol. Diminutive Marty feels like a big man when he has a gun in his hand. A chemist kills the gangster who's extorting him, and thinks he's gotten away with it - until a mysterious figure shows up at his door. The Corpse Came C.O.D.; Wanted: James Boyd Guy; Little Man with a Big Gun; Don't Do It; Wanted: Lloyd Sampsell; Not Tough at All; An Act of Revenge; Wanted: Paul Wilson. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.