"True" Crime, Bugsy Vs. Bugsie!!

Well, when a comic advertises itself as...

 ...you sort of expect authenticity.

When a story bills itself as...

...you kind of expect a true story.

Hahahah, naive fools:

Please note, this is not Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Nope, this true story is about Billy "Bugsie" Siegal. Ever so close.

So close...

...that they can't even get their fake named consistent for two captions in the same splash panel!!

Meanwhile, you gotta like this "Bugsie":

Five dollars? FIVE DOLLARS?!?! Thanks, state of Michigan!! Woo hoo I'm goin' straight!!

Not Bugsie!

You have to respect using that same $5 bill to light your cigarette while talking smack to a perturbed warden!!

Oh, just so we know that they're not just using Bugsie Siegal as a pseudonym in an otherwise true story...the actual Bugsy Siegel never did time in the pen--he was only ever convicted of minor offenses and got off with fines (although he did spend a brief time in jail awaiting a murder trial); he was never even arrested in Michigan, and there is no Cargmore Penitentiary, anywhere.

Still, I'll bet the real guy lit his smokes with $5 bills just to piss off law-abiding folk...

From Colossal Features Magazine #3 (1950)