Golden Age Vigilante (Greg Sanders / Saunders) Appreciation (2021)

[MajorHoy]

The original Vigilante, Greg Sanders (later changed to "Greg Saunders" decades later) was first featured in Action Comics #42 (November 1941).


To be continued . . .

[signalman112]

Fred Hembeck is a treasure. Love those strips from the old Daily Planet columns.

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[Big Bad Voodoo Lou]

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

[signalman112]

Nice splash page from ACTION COMICS #130.

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[DrNewGod]

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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[ducklord]

Also, according to Grant Morrison, he's a werewolf. I think that's important

[MajorHoy]

The original Vigilante, Greg Sanders (later changed to "Greg Saunders" decades later) was first featured in Action Comics #42 (November 1941)...

To be continued . . .

[DrNewGod]

Who was the illustrator on this? It looks very Simon, but I can also see a lot of Plastic Man in this.

[MajorHoy]

Who was the illustrator on this? It looks very Simon, but I can also see a lot of Plastic Man in this.

Looks like it was Mort Meskin.

[MajorHoy]

from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XXV (March 1987)

[MajorHoy]

He looked a little bit . . . different . . . when he had an entry in Who's Who in the DC Universe No. 5 (December 1990):