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🤠Jonah Hex #58 (1982)
- Story Title: “The Trial of Jonah Hex!”
- Writer: Michael Fleisher
- Penciler: Ross Andru
- Inker: Tony DeZuniga
- Publication Date: March 1982
In this classic tale, the scarred bounty hunter Jonah Hex is captured and forced into the one place he can’t shoot his way out of: a courtroom.
The story revolves around a local town that has finally had enough of the seemingly endless cycle of violence that follows Hex everywhere he goes. Hex finds himself in an official legal proceeding where the full weight of the town’s frustration and fear is brought down upon him.
He is put on trial for his life, charged with the various acts of violence and death that he has been responsible for during his career as a bounty hunter. The town seeks to find him guilty and execute him, arguing that he is as much a villain as the criminals he hunts.
This issue explores the dark moral dilemma of the bounty hunter’s life: Is Hex a necessary evil, or is he simply a killer hiding behind a badge? The outcome of the trial, and whether Hex can escape the ropes of justice, forms the core tension of the story.
