Western True Crime

In its brief six-issue run from 1948 to 1949, Fox Feature Syndicate's Western True Crime blended the gritty realism of the true-crime genre with the dusty landscapes of the Old West. The series featured stories of outlaws, lawmen, and frontier justice, brought to life by the polished house style of the Iger Shop, with notable contributions from artists Jack Kamen and Jerry Maxwell. A minor but intriguing footnote in the post-war crime comic boom, it stands as a curious hybrid that predated the more famous Western-crime crossovers of later decades.