The Saga of the Bloody Benders (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)

Rick Geary's The Saga of the Bloody Benders, a single-issue entry in his Treasury of Victorian Murder series from NBM, recounts the grisly true story of the Bender family, a murderous clan who preyed on travelers in 1870s Kansas. Geary, the sole writer and artist, brings his signature precise, crosshatched style to this historical true-crime comic, distilling the facts of the case into a concise, atmospheric narrative. It matters as a focused, standalone chapter in Geary's long-running exploration of infamous 19th-century American crimes.