Wanted Comics #43

The issue opens with a wanted poster for Henry Randolph Mitchell, wanted for bank robbery under aliases Michael S. Angle and Martin Hugan, offering a $100 reward. The main story follows Rick Hardmore and his girlfriend as they flee after robbing a jewelry store on the Bowery, evading police by commandeering a bulletproof bus and later crashing it into a train in a desperate attempt to escape. The issue also includes "The Great Unsolved Mystery Contest No. 9," which presents the real 1922 murder of Chicago schoolteacher Cordelia Bottsford and invites readers to solve the crime by answering four questions about motives, clues, and suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. Additional stories depict criminal schemes involving insurance fraud and murder plots orchestrated by a character named Rocco and others.