Essential Crime and Noir Comics

Sin City: The Hard Goodbye is Frank Miller's stark black-and-white neo-noir masterpiece, introducing Marv and the brutal Basin City underworld.

100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is a slow-burn crime epic about power, revenge, and a mysterious man who gives strangers untraceable bullets.

Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is the essential modern crime comic — interlocking noir stories set in a shared criminal underworld.

Scalped is Jason Aaron's gritty crime saga set on a Native American reservation, a brutal undercover-cop story that ranks among Vertigo's finest work.