Public Enemies #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Public Enemies #6 An escaped convict named Ben Victor flees a prison where he had been held for a crime he claims he didn't commit, and returns to a farmhouse seeking aid from a woman named Wendy. When officers discover his identity and arrest him based on fingerprint evidence, Wendy reveals that Ben is actually the twin brother of the real criminal Tom Collier, who had framed him years ago for a fifty-thousand-dollar theft. A separate story follows John Farr, a man on a winning gambling streak who is approached by an old man offering to sell him a confession to murder for one hundred thousand dollars; Farr refuses and later shoots the old man in self-defense, ultimately escaping with the signed confession and living freely under an assumed identity.
Twenty years after Nick O'Neal left his criminal past behind, the respectable orange magnate finds himself cornered when his old partner Nocky Hall arrives with a dangerous secret and an even more dangerous proposition—smuggle a mysterious fugitive into Florida, or face exposure. As O'Neal's yacht becomes entangled in a web of blackmail, Nazi war criminals, and secrets that threaten everything he's built, a letter hidden in Chicago holds the power to destroy him, and someone is willing to kill to find it.
Two ex-partners in crime—Ben Victor and Joe Stinson—race against each other to claim $50,000 buried in a farmhouse cellar, each unaware the other is closing in. When Ben escapes from Carville Prison and Joe, freshly paroled, begins romancing the farmhouse owner to gain access to the basement, their paths collide in a tense showdown where loyalty proves as cheap as the loot they're after. Maurice Whitman pencils and inks this hard-boiled tale of thieves undone by their own greed.
When escaped convict Charlie Vicker assumes the identity of Tom Collier—a wealthy young man disfigured in a car crash—he sees his ticket to the millionaire's life he's always wanted. With his face reconstructed by a master surgeon and the Collier family fortune at his fingertips, the criminal begins living as the real Tom, but his crude behavior and reckless greed soon draw suspicion from those closest to him. As Charlie pushes his new identity to its limits, the web of deception threatens to unravel around him.
A young man named Michael flees to his mother after witnessing a mob murder, begging her to hide him from Omega and his gang—but she refuses to let fear rule their lives. When the mobsters come looking for him, Michael's mother stands firm against their threats, and her unflinching courage finally gives her son the strength to stop running and face what he's done. This six-page story from Public Enemies #6 explores how one act of bravery can transform a life trapped by cowardice.
A desperate gambler named John Farr accepts a sinister stranger's offer of $50,000—with a devil's bargain attached: a signed suicide note confessing to murder, due to be "collected" one year later. When his luck turns golden and he tries to reclaim his soul, Farr discovers that some debts can't be paid back, no matter how much you're willing to spend.
A man poisons his ailing brother to inherit the family estate, but his plan unravels when the household maid discovers his dark secret and begins to blackmail him. Desperate to silence her, he devises a scheme that spirals catastrophically out of his control, proving that even the cleverest crime can betray its architect.
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