Golden Age Vigilante (Greg Sanders)

First appearance: Action Comics #42 (November 1941)





I first read this story when it was reprinted in Secret Origins #4 (September-October 1973)


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

Maybe I'm a bit OT but I wanted to tell you guys that the modern age Vigilante is quite known in Italy for my generation readers, because, when the old Marvel (in 1984) and Dc (in 1981) local licensees respectively folded and didn't renew their licence, there was a subsequent void in Superheroes publications here; then, suddenly, coming out of nowhere a small printer located in the center of Italy (the town was Todi province of Perugia) formed a new publishing entity, headed by a minerary engineer who had worked in Central Africa (!) and, after a trip to NY, obtained the rights to all Marvel and Dc characters but, convinced that the Superheroes weren't appetibles for young readers, started with these monthly antologies:
Match (72 pages), who published Vigilante (the Eighties series), V (do you remember that Tv series?), and Jonah Hex.


Alien which, in its 128 pages, published several Marvel/Epic Series: Sergio Aragones' Groo (!), MW Kaluta's Starstruck, Time Spirit, Bozz Chronicles (!!), the beautifully painted Moonshadow by Jon J. Muth, Crash Ryan and Coyote.

Sure there was some really interesting material especially in Alien but that anthology printed in luxury paper was really expensive for most of the people and young readers wanted mainly Superheroes, not so different and "adult" comics at that time, so Match lasted 6 only issues and Alien only five.
Then, in June 1986, they published an anthology called simply Marvel which contained stories of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk and that started its run exactly from the point where the previous licensee had ended its run the year before, but this is another story (with all the other Labor publications too) that deserves to be told in a new and future Labor Comics post...

Coyote and Groo in the same book!!!!? I'd have bought that!