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Torso
Paperback, p. cm., Diamond Comic Distributors, List Price: $24.95 | purchase
Book Summary
Follows Cleveland's newly-appointed safety director Eliot Ness as he hunts for a killer who leaves only the victims' torsos as evidence, and as the mutilated corpses pile up, Ness finds both his reputation and his marriage threatened.
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- Ness, Eliot,
- Fiction
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Three Books...
Graphic Content: 3 Comics Based On Real Crimes
Eliot "Untouchable" Ness famously tangled with one of history's greatest villains — Alphonse "Scarface" Capone. And then he went off to Cleveland and ended up hunting someone even worse: that city's notorious "Torso Killer." In Torso, Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko make stunning use of newspaper clippings, crime scene snaps and period photography, making it seem less a traditional comic book and more like a great flick that somehow ended up on paper instead of celluloid. And... more
—Duane Swierczynski
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