Famous Gangsters #1

An anthology issue featuring stories of notorious criminals. The lead story follows Joe Schultz, a hardened gangster who refuses to sign over his interest in a brewery to his boss Lucky, leading to a violent confrontation at a warehouse. A second story depicts Lucky Luciano's rise in the Sicilian-American crime syndicate, his consolidation of power among rivals Keegan, Sicotti, Deuber, and Tillman, and his subsequent assassination in a New York Central Building shooting in 1931. A third story chronicles John Dillinger's criminal partnership, bank robberies across the Midwest, and his narrow escape from police while transporting stolen guns and cash to hiding places.