Crimes by Women

From 1948 to 1951, Fox Publications explored the dark side of femininity in Crimes by Women, a 15-issue crime comic that leaned into sensational headlines and moral panic. The series thrived on a rotating roster of artists including Alvin Hollingsworth, Charles F. Miller, and pre-EC Jack Kamen, whose polished, unsettling style lent a glamorous menace to tales of femme fatales and desperate dames. A product of the pre-Comics Code era, it stands as a raw, unvarnished artifact of postwar pulp culture, where women were both perpetrators and victims in a world of sharp angles and sharper consequences.