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Headline Comics #28
Headline Comics #28 is an anthology of crime stories. "Crime Never Pays" depicts a high-stakes poker game where a racketeer wins big and attempts to take over criminal operations, only to be thwarted by his unlucky hand. "Trapping Chicago's Speed-Demon Mob!" recounts the true crime account of reckless devil-drivers terrorizing Chicago streets in December 1943, with police tracking down the armed criminals. The issue also includes a story about a bookkeeper named Jerry who discovers illegal postage stamp dealing involving a man named Russel C. Phelps, leading to an investigation by authorities. "Murder Makes Bad Medicine" presents the factual account of a deadly scheme on an Oklahoma Indian reservation in 1921, where Bill Hale and Ernest Burkhart plotted murders to claim oil wealth from Osage lands.