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Crime Smashers
Trojan Magazines · 1950–1954 · 15 issues
About the series
From 1950 to 1954, Trojan Magazines published Crime Smashers, a 15-issue comic series that delivered hard-boiled tales of law and disorder. Writer Robert Leslie Bellem, alongside artists Gene Leslie, H. C. Kiefer, and Adolphe Barreaux, shaped its gritty, pre-Code crime stories. The series stands as a snapshot of the era’s raw, unvarnished crime comics before the industry’s self-censorship tightened.
