Golden Age Appearances of the Golden Age Vigilante (1940-1955)
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Issue |
Cover Appearance? |
Comment |
Reprinted In |
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Action #42 |
No |
(no title) - Origin, 1st Appearance - Greg Sanders, I:Billy Gunn, captures Killer Kelly, a murderer who fakes death at his own execution |
Secret Origins Volume #1, #4 |
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Action #43 |
No |
(no title) - vs. The Shade, a criminal after a pitchblende min owned by Billy Gunn, Part 1 |
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Action #44 |
No |
(no title) - captures the Shade, revealed to be radio reporter Keyhole Carter, Billy Gunn ceases to be sidekick |
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Action #45 |
No |
(no title) - I: Stuff, in New York City, Vigilante breaks up the gang of the Head in Chinatown with the help of Stuff, the Chinatown Kid |
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Action #46 |
No |
(no title) - I: The Rainbow Man, vs. Rainbow Man, a villain using a Rainbow-Globe |
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Action #47 |
No |
(no title) - I: The Scorpion, vs. the Scorpion, a crook that robs only benefits |
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Action #48 |
No |
"Crime Caravan" - vs. The Lash, a wheel-chair bound, whip-wielding criminal |
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Action #49 |
No |
(no title) - vs. the Rainbow Man |
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Action #50 |
No |
"The Man Who Came Back" - vs. Spud Gorliss and gang when they try to coerce an alderman who is tough on crime |
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Action #51 |
No |
"Guns, Gold and Glory" - vs. crook in Greg Sanders birthplace of Avalanche Junction |
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Action #52 |
Yes |
"Sing A Song of Six Guns" - reveals secret ID to Stuff, recovers a kid's stolen violin |
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Action #53 |
No |
"The Blackout Blues" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #54 |
No |
"The Rookie Who Fought A Ghost" - helps rookie cop make a name for himself |
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Action #55 |
No |
"Bullets for Breakfast" - rescues childhood sweetheart from racketeers |
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Action #56 |
No |
"Melody of Menace" - captures crooks and clears the name of Hummin' Hank |
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Action #57 |
No |
"The Feud of Rimfire Ridge" - settles feud by arranging marriage |
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Action #58 |
No |
"The Dummy and the Dumbell" - vs. the Dummy |
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Action #59 |
No |
"The Fiddler's Fee" - I: The Fiddler (not Isaac Bowin), vs. The Fiddler |
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Action #60 |
No |
"Rainbow over Crimeville" - prevents Rainbow Man from hijacking armored car |
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Action #61 |
No |
"The Cat and the Fiddler" - vs. The Fiddler |
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Action #62 |
No |
"The Crime Carnival" - catches crooks at a ice carnival |
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Action #63 |
No |
"Dummy, Dummy and Dummy" - vs. The Dummy and co-costumed counterparts |
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Action #64 |
No |
"The Treasure of Dead Man's Key" - thwarts bank robbers posing as pirates off the Florida coast |
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Action #65 |
No |
"The Bard of Banditry" - I:"Shakes"- a crooked poet, vs. "Shakes" |
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Action #66 |
No |
"The Sword of Destiny" - rounds up crooks in China town who have stolen a legendary sword |
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Action #67 |
No |
"The Academy of Musical Crime" - vs. The Fiddler |
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Action #68 |
No |
"The Duke Goes to the Dogs" - captures "Duke" Dagget at a dog show |
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Action #69 |
No |
"The Little Men Who Were There" - vs. The Dummy |
Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Super-Villains #3 |
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Action #70 |
No |
"A Challenge from the Pyramids" - defeats underhanded museum curator |
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Action #71 |
No |
"Alias Mr. Sunsuhine" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #72 |
No |
"The Guns of Killer Hanes" - The Vigilante helps reform the grandson of a historic gunslinger |
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Action #73 |
No |
"Dirge on a Bull-Fiddle" - vs. the Fiddler |
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Action #74 |
No |
"Wheels of Jeopardy" - thwarts crooks |
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Action #75 |
No |
"Blunderbuss Booty" - vs. The Dummy and the Lash (little similarity to the Action #48 version) |
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Action #76 |
No |
"The Mountain Without A Top" - vs. crooks hiding in a mountain |
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Action #77 |
No |
"The Rainbow Man Sees Red" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #78 |
No |
"Portraits of Plunder" - vs. the Yeggs Gang |
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Action #79 |
No |
"Birds of Ill Omen" - vs. the Fiddler |
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Action #80 |
No |
"The Pillager of the Parthenon" - vs. crooks stealing Greek jewels |
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Action #81 |
No |
"The Chinatown Kid, Magician" - Stuff learns magic tricks which he uses to help the Vigilante corral some crooks |
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Action #82 |
No |
"Magnet for Mobsters" - outraces crooks to recover prototype device |
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Action #83 |
No |
"A Fortune for a Fossil" - captures Big-Time Bennis when he gets involved in a fossil chase |
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Action #84 |
No |
"Tree's a Crowd" - captures crooks who have stolen Supergrow, a formula for advanced plant growth |
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Action #85 |
No |
"Old Wyoming" - vs. crooks disguised as cowboys robbing the theater where Greg Sanders is performing |
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Action #86 |
No |
"Orient of the Occident" - rounds up crooks exploiting prejudices of Chinese |
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Action #87 |
No |
"The Dummy, Art Expert" - vs. The Dummy |
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Action #88 |
No |
"Of Cops and Robbers" - Helps a cop capture the crook he has been tracking through a board game |
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Action #89 |
No |
"The Cruise of the Ichabod Q" - vs. "Shakes" |
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Action #90 |
No |
"Picayune Pilferers" - stops a gang of jewel thieves |
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Action #91 |
No |
"The Fiddler's Jam Session" - vs. The Fiddler |
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Action #92 |
No |
"The Amazing Mr. Minute" - I: Mr. Minute, vs. the diminutive Mr. Minute |
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Action #93 |
No |
"Way Down East" - rounds up smugglers operating out of a cannery |
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Action #94 |
No |
"The Escapes of Elephant Al" - thwarts a crook evading capture with stage magician tricks |
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Action #95 |
No |
"The Burgling Bookman", defeats crooks smuggling payoffs inside books |
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Action #96 |
No |
"Dancer's Midgets" - vs. the Dummy |
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Action #97 |
No |
"The Animal Master" - captures Fanger, a criminal animal trainer using animals for theft |
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Action #98 |
No |
"Treasure of the Ancients", safeguards museum pieces from robbers |
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Action #99 |
No |
"The Tiger's Skin" -Helps out Nick the Gambler when the Slasher sets his sights on a lucky tiger skin |
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Action #100 |
No |
"The Book That Was Too Real!", rescues crime author J. Scrivner Tome when crooks use his books for ideas |
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Action #101 |
No |
"When East Goes West" - Defeats a press agent with a gang disguises as Western outlaws |
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Action #102 |
No |
"Swan Song for Outlaws!" - Breaks up the Rope Raider gang while a busted amplifer improves his voice |
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Action #103 |
No |
"The Rainbow Man's Return" -vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #104 |
No |
"Marshall Vigilante" - The Vigilante dreams that he goes back in time to 1872 to defeat counterfeiters |
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Action #105 |
No |
"Truth Comes to Gila Gap" - Helps out newspaper man against crooks |
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Action #106 |
No |
"Penthouse Pirates" - Vigilante fakes a break-up with Stuff to corral crooks |
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Action #107 |
No |
"Ride Him, Vigilante!" |
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Action #108 |
No |
"The Town that Roared Again!" - Defeat crooks after gold in an old ghost town |
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Action #109 |
No |
"Pop Gunn Rides Again" - The Vigilante rounds up crooks with Billy Gunn |
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Action #110 |
No |
"The Girl Sheriff of Benton City" - Helps a lady sheriff avoid be undermined by an old rival |
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Action #111 |
No |
"Pop Gunn Shoots the Works" - Defeats crooks operating out of an amusement shooting gallery |
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Action #112 |
No |
"The Vigilante's Double" - thwart Rip Morrison, a criminal disguising himself as The Vigilante |
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Action #113 |
No |
"Gold Rush, 1947"- helps Dan Jeffers realize last wish - to live out life in Gold Rush town |
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Action #114 |
No |
"Wheels of Danger"- vs. villains using race car to make getaways |
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Action #115 |
No |
"The Man Who Stole the Rainbow" - vs. the Rainbow Man |
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Action #116 |
No |
"The Boy Who Wasn't Big Enough" - Thwarts a Greg Saunders imposter with help of a runty kid |
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Action #117 |
No |
"A Lesson For The Teacher" - saves a teacher who's the star witness in a murder trial |
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Action #118 |
No |
"The Blue Ribbon Bandits" - thwarts crooks at county fair |
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Action #119 |
No |
"The Birthday That Backfired!" - vs. the Rainbow Man |
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Action #120 |
No |
"The Horse Nobody Could Ride" -defeats outlaws and tames wild horse while visiting an Indian Reservation |
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Action #121 |
No |
"The Man of 1,000 Brands" - I: The Brand, vs. The Brand |
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Action #122 |
No |
"Curtain Time for the Mystery Crimes" - thwarts crooks in a traveling acting troupe |
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Action #123 |
No |
"The Color Wheel of Crime" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #124 |
No |
"The Lonesome Kangaroo" - Goes on World Tour and battles crooks in Brisbane, Australia |
The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told |
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Action #125 |
No |
"The Reluctant Annie Oakley" - helps a lady sharp shooter rid herself of crooked entanglements |
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Action #126 |
No |
"The Secret of the Desert Bandit" - captures a crook in the desert heat by depriving him of water |
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Action #127 |
No |
"El Bolaadoro!" - defeats criminal disguised as a giant bola expert in Argentina |
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Action #128 |
No |
"The Cowboy from Broadway" - thwarts crooks at a Western display |
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Action #129 |
No |
"The Desperados of Doom" - After being bitten by a rattlesnake, Vigilante recovers with an antidote that makes him imagine battles with the West's greatest gunslingers |
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Action #130 |
No |
"The Singing Bandit of the Black Hills", vs. criminals brothers taking turns as a singing bandit |
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Action #131 |
No |
"The Pampas Troubadour" - Defeats Don Jose on an adventure in South America |
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Action #132 |
No |
"The Incredible Talents of Bronco Lou Hastings" - Helps round up crooks with the secret help of a writer who ghost writes a popular bronco buster |
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Action #133 |
No |
"The Gold Rush Comes to Gotham City" - Thwarts a mine-salting gold rush scam in Gotham |
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Action #134 |
No |
"The Four Horsemen of Villainy" - captures quarter of highly-skilled criminal cowboys |
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Action #135 |
No |
"The Rainbow Man Goes West" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #136 |
No |
"The Spur, The Handcuffs and the Branding Iron" - Solves the mystery that helps Cottonwood Gulch prosper |
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Action #137 |
No |
"The Headless Horseman Rides Again!" - thwarts Dudley Farnay's headless horseman ruse |
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Action #138 |
No |
"The Man Who Loves Horses" - A man's life hangs in the balance until he releases a captive wild horse brought to him by Vigilante |
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Action #139 |
No |
"Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New" - The Vigilante helps a luddite and his rival settle their differences so their children can wed |
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Action #140 |
No |
"The Seven Wonders of the West" - thwarts crooks and unites a couple |
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Action #141 |
No |
"A Day at the Rodeo" - Vigilante recovers some stolen receipts from a rodeo |
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Action #142 |
No |
"The Making of a Man" - Saves the Anderson ranch from a swindler and teaches a city-slicker the ways of the trail |
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Action #143 |
No |
"The Days of '49" - Crooks rub a re-enactment of the Gold Rush |
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Action #144 |
No |
"The Quest for the Two Dead Men" - Finds a lost gold mine for charity and thwarts the crooked competition |
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Action #145 |
No |
"The Cowboy Magician" - Captures crooks after moving his show from radio to televison |
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Action #146 |
No |
"The Galleon In The Desert"- vs. The Fiddler |
DC 100-Page Spectacular #6 |
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Action #147 |
No |
"The Horse That Could Talk" - Captures a murderer with a trick horse |
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Action #148 |
No |
"The Big House Balladeers" - The Vigilante thwarts an ex-con framing other crooks |
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Action #149 |
No |
"Wheels for a Hero" - The Vigilante gets the VigiCycle as his personal transport. I: Vigicycle |
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Action #150 |
No |
"Six Slugs for the Vigilante" - The plane Vigilante is using to transport a group of outlaws crashes and he and Stuff must capture the crooks without a gun |
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Action #151 |
No |
"The Battling Buckaroo of Gila Gap" - The Vigilante has to perform great feats to help out an aspiring songstress |
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Action #152 |
No |
"The City of the Chiefs" - Captures crooks on an Indian reservation and deals with Stuff's frustration with being only a sidekick |
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Action #153 |
No |
"The Three Dead Letters" - Tracks down the recipients of three dead letters to get them their share of a gold mine, which crooks are desperate to obtain for themselves. |
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Action #154 |
No |
"The Covered Wagon Cavalcade" - breaks a horse thieving ring after purebred Arabian stallions |
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Action #155 |
No |
"The Gun That Killed Vigilante" - captures a crooked lawyer who collected murder weapons from criminals he acquits |
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Action #156 |
No |
"The Riddle of the Rainbow-Man" - vs. The Rainbow Man |
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Action #157 |
No |
"The Impossible Escapes" - After a series of mysterious jailbreaks, the Vigilante captures the culprit, the mechanic who designed the cells to be escaped easily |
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Action #158 |
No |
"The Prairie Troubadour Takes Over" - Greg Saunders has to thwart crooks as himself when he's kidnapped as ransom for the Vigilante |
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Action #159 |
No |
"The Trigger Trail of Wild Eddie Meeks" - defeats a lawman deliberately failing to bring them criminal in alive |
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Action #160 |
No |
"The Capture of the Four Aces" - captures crooks and helps out magazine illustrator |
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Action #161 |
No |
"The Duplicate Crimes" - captures ex-con Yates who is repeating old crimes which he "improves" |
World's Finest #225 |
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Action #162 |
No |
"A Horse for Vigilante" - The Vigilante must switch to horseback when he cracks up the Vigcycle chasing the Ramrod Gang |
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Action #163 |
No |
"Strangest Posse in the World" - Breaks up gang of cattle rustlers |
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Action #164 |
No |
"The Vigilante vs. The Prairie Troubadour" - clears the name of Greg Sanders after a prison break out |
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Action #165 |
No |
"The Second Vigilante" - an impostor assumes the guise of Vigilante after Sanders loses his memory |
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Action #166 |
No |
"The Trickster of Deep Blue County" - uncovers a string of inside-job robberies by a crooked bank examiner |
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Action #167 |
No |
"The Outlaw Editor" - Thwarts a crime spree by a crooked newspaper man using the ID "The Black Baron" |
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Action #168 |
No |
"Outlaws for Sale" - breaks up a training program for criminals |
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Action #169 |
No |
"The Phantom Sheriff" - helps long-lost sheriff recover memory |
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Action #170 |
No |
"The King of Handcuffs" - captures a crooked handcuff collector |
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Action #171 |
No |
"A Cell for Vigilante" - Vigilante is tricked into riding into a Mexican County where the law favors the criminals |
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Action #172 |
No |
"The Killer Horse of Hollow Hills" - captures crooks after taking a bet to stay in the saddle for 24 hours |
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Action #173 |
No |
"The Vigilante Museum" -vs. crooks educating themselves about the Vigilante |
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Action #174 |
No |
"The Lady Sharpshooter" - helps a female gun expert with some crooks trying to exploit her |
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Action #175 |
No |
"The Sailor on Horseback" - captures crooks while on a recuperative sea cruise |
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Action #176 |
No |
"The Impossible Legend"- captures criminals while blindfolded |
Action #403 |
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Action #177 |
No |
"Five Bandanas for The Vigilante" - captures the Black Diamond Gang while recounting tales of how his bandana saved his life |
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Action #178 |
No |
"The Outlaw Stallion" - Captures a murderous outlaw by taming the outlaw's horse |
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Action #179 |
No |
"Mountie for a Day" - Rounds up smugglers in Canada as a temporary member of the Canadian Mounties |
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Action #180 |
No |
"The Lawman Without A Friend" - Captures a crook impersonating on of the locals of Sagebrush City |
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Action #181 |
No |
"The Forgotten Men of Ghost Town" - Vigilante helps some down-and-outers find gold in an old ghost town |
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Action #182 |
No |
"The Amazing Crimes of the Lariat" - I: The Lariat, vs. the Lariat, a cross using lassos |
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Action #183 |
No |
"The Jinx Saddle" -captures crook with a supposedly cursed Mexican saddle |
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Action #184 |
No |
"The Crime Rhymes" - vs. "Shakes" the criminal poet |
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Action #185 |
No |
"The Treasure of Get-Rich Creek" - Defeats crooks trying to intimidate an heiress on a worthless claim that turns out to not be so worthless after all |
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Action #186 |
No |
"The Race to Old Forge" - thwarts crooks trying to break up a drag race |
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Action #187 |
No |
"The Man Who Killed Vigilante" - Vigilante fakes his death to round up the Bratton Gang |
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Action #188 |
No |
"The Reformed Owlhoots Club" - captures crooks taking advantage of reformed convicts |
World's Finest #227 |
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Action #189 |
No |
"The One-Armed Bandit" - captures a crooked gunslinger faking having one arm |
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Action #190 |
No |
"Vigilante's Adopted Tribe" - Tries to convince aging Indian clan to get along with white men |
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Action #191 |
No |
"The Purple Raiders of Cripple Hill" - rounds up the Purple Raiders, a group of Mexican bandits |
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Action #192 |
No |
"The Red-Dust Bandit" - defeats crook impersonating Greg Saunders |
Action Comics #405 |
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Action #193 |
No |
"The Broadway Posse" - prevents a man from being framed |
World's Finest #228 |
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Action #194 |
No |
"The Unlucky Horseshoe" - Recovers Jesses James' horseshoe, a legendary talisman of misfortune |
Four-Star Spectacular #5 |
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Action #195 |
No |
"The Counterfeit Vigilante" - rounds up the Rankin mob through a series of impersonations |
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Action #196 |
No |
"Vigilante - Foreign Correspondent" - Smashes a smuggling racket while on tour in Europe |
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Action #197 |
No |
"The Masked Gladiator" - rounds up crooks in Rome, Italy |
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Action #198 |
No |
"Stand-In for the Prairie Troubadour" - defeats crooks on a movie set |
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Western Comics #1 |
Yes |
"Jesse James Rides Again" - vs. a group of cowboy criminals mimicking the legendary criminal gang |
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Western Comics #2 |
No |
"The Cowboy and the Killers" - captures crooked promoter Dirk Biggers |
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Western Comics #3 |
No |
"The Two-Faced Bandit of Mesa Town" - captures Ace Bart, bandit and train robber |
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Western Comics #4 |
No |
"The Four Notches of Hate" - sees an end to the murderer, Notch Shelby |