Public Enemies #4

A jewelry heist mastermind named Sally runs a slick operation—feeding tip-offs to desperate crooks like Al and his partner Jerry, then taking a cut of every job. When the two pull off a string of successful robberies over three months, they can't resist skimming a few pieces for themselves, a mistake that sets Sally on a dangerous path of revenge. Art Gates handles both pencils and inks in this tale of double-cross and deadly consequences.

Johnny Carter learns that boxing alone won't pay the bills, so when a shady associate named Tiger dangles the promise of easy money through fixed fights, Johnny is tempted—but a chance meeting with a young woman named Judy Jenson makes him think twice about the criminal path. When Johnny's luck finally runs out in the ring, desperation and the wrong companions pull him toward crime, leading to a downward spiral that costs him everything. Illustrated by Maurice Whitman, "Johnny Takes A Dive" is a sharp cautionary tale about how one bad decision can derail a life.

Peter Higgins starts out as a car salesman hoping to build a life with his fiancée Paula, but when he's drawn into Sarone's car-theft operation, he finds it impossible to escape—especially when Sarone threatens to make him big in the rackets and won't let him quit. As Peter's criminal world and personal life spiral into conflict, Paula discovers his secret and tries to pull him back from the brink, but circumstances force a confrontation that will shatter everything he thought he wanted.

Four businessmen retreat to a secluded mountain lodge to conduct private dealings, but when one of them—a man who's just confessed to embezzling company funds—is found murdered in the night, Detective Wylie must piece together the crime from the evidence at hand and the suspects' conflicting accounts. With a shoe print as his crucial clue, Wylie works quickly to identify which of the four men is the killer before anyone else can flee the scene.

When two young criminals attempt to prove themselves by robbing the Moss Village Bank, they unknowingly set off a chain reaction that pits them against the Varone mob—a ruthless gang operating out of a Westchester nightclub. As both groups converge on the same target, a dangerous game of deception and revenge unfolds that neither side anticipated. Art Gates brings this taut crime tale to life with sharp pencils and inks that capture the gritty world of 1948 gangsterdom.

"Killer" Terino was once the underworld's most feared professional gunman, but when his boss Big Ed fears that imprisoned mobsters Max and Mickey might talk to the D.A., he hires Terino to silence them—setting in motion a chain of betrayals that unravels everything. As Max and Mickey surrender to police for protection, Terino finds himself hunted by every gang in the city, every cop on the street, and nowhere left to run. Al Wenzel pencils and inks this gritty true crime tale of how a man who lived by violence meets a fate written by his own hand.