Parole Breakers #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains three crime stories based on real criminals. "Vinnie Sherwood—the Racket King" depicts Sherwood's violent hijacking of a delivery truck and his subsequent criminal activities at a nightclub, where he becomes involved with criminals planning a mine payroll heist. The story follows the gang's attempted robbery of the payroll at a mine office, their escape with the money, and a pursuit by guards that ends with their capture. Additional stories featuring Marion Gilmore (Queen of the Waterfront Gangs), Pete Loris (and the Notorious Flathead Gang), and other paroled criminals round out the issue's tales of crime and punishment.
Marion Gilmore, once the ruthless queen of San Francisco’s waterfront gangs, is imprisoned after a string of high-stakes robberies with her partner-in-crime, Tony Arribaci. Now serving time in the women’s prison, she bides her time, earning the trust of the guards—until a daring escape plan unfolds during a chaotic prison break.
Vinnie Sherwood, a bitter and disillusioned former truck driver, turns to crime after being fired and robbed, launching a violent protection racket that exploits parolees and terrorizes rival drivers. As his empire grows, a former convict named Danny, forced into his gang, secretly plans to expose him, leading to a dramatic police sting that ends in Sherwood’s arrest.
The Fiddler of Death centers on a hitman known only as the Fiddler, hired to eliminate a rival gang leader named Big Monte. As he waits in a mob-run tavern, he’s unsettled by the constant fiddling of an old musician named Jesse, whose presence becomes increasingly unnerving—especially when the Fiddler realizes the man may not be who he seems.
Pete Loris and his Flathead Gang pull off a daring armored car heist near Pittsburgh, only to be betrayed by a double-crossing ally and hunted by police. As the gang flees from the scene, they're pursued through the streets and eventually cornered at a remote farm, where their plans unravel in a desperate bid for freedom.
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Reprinted in All True Detective Cases #[nn] (1952), The Crime Machine #1 (1971), Crime Comics #1 (2002), The Joe Kubert Archives #1 (2012)
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