The original Vigilante, Greg Sanders (later changed to "Greg Saunders" decades later) was first featured in Action Comics #42 (November 1941).
To be continued . . .
The original Vigilante, Greg Sanders (later changed to "Greg Saunders" decades later) was first featured in Action Comics #42 (November 1941).
To be continued . . .
Fred Hembeck is a treasure. Love those strips from the old Daily Planet columns.
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I have a real soft spot for a singing cowboy superhero/movie star from the '40s. James Robinson wrote a very good Vigilante miniseries in the late '90s called Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice. The only thing I didn't love about it was some crude art by Tony Salmons.
But this might be the best Vigilante-related thing ever, where he sings a Marty Robbins-style ballad on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJM...nnel=AliAlpha1
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Nice splash page from ACTION COMICS #130.
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The Vigilante was also one of the few comic heroes to make his way to the screen during the Golden Age.
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Also, according to Grant Morrison, he's a werewolf. I think that's important
Who was the illustrator on this? It looks very Simon, but I can also see a lot of Plastic Man in this.
from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XXV (March 1987)
He looked a little bit . . . different . . . when he had an entry in Who's Who in the DC Universe No. 5 (December 1990):