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Podcast: The Comics Canon
Episode: Episode 91 – Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel
Description: In this episode, Crimewave!, our series on gritty crime comics, continues with a fictionalized account of the real, ripped-from-the-1930s-headlines case of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, co-written and "executed" by one of the biggest names in comics before he was one of the biggest names in comics: It's Torso, by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko, originally published by Image Comics! Between 1935 and 1938, a mysterious figure murdered, dismembered and decapitated at least 12 victims in Cleveland, Ohio, preying on the city's growing transient population. Against the backdrop of a corrupt city reeling from the Great Depression...