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Bearers of the Vigilante name
The Vigilante, Gregory Sanders
The Vigilante
First Appearance: Action Comics Vol 1 #42, 1941
Created by: Mort Weisinger · Mort Meskin
The son of a well respected lawman who chose to go into music making for his own career. His career of choice was put on the back burner when his father was murdered and the desolate nature of Wyoming at the time forced him to deal with the killers himself.
In The Golden Age of Comic Books and the Post-Crisis period the man who would become The Vigilante was born in Wyoming to a line of noted marksmen at the tail end of WWI. He swore to dedicate himself to justice on his father's grave. As The Vigilante, Greg Sanders split his time between Wyoming and New York and ended up with a sidekick with the moniker The Chinatown Kid. During the early 1940s he joined the All-Star Squadron and the Seven Soldiers of Victory, before he and the rest of the Seven were scattered across time by the villain Nebula Man.
In the The Silver Age of Comic Books the natural marksman Gregory Sanders was born in Wyoming at an indeterminate time, though definitely later than his predecessor, and had already retired from the masked hero life by the time members of the Justice League approached him.
Both versions of Vigilante would end up being erased due to the collapse of the original Multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
The Gregory Sanders version of the Vigilante has made appearances in other media, including Justice League Unlimited, Batman: The Brave and the Bold and in his own live action adventure serial, The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West in 1947 where he was played by Ralph Byrd.
Traits shared across all versions:
- Badass Biker: When he appears in the modern day, he rides a motorcycle instead of a horse. He has christened it, the Vig-cycle
.Get goin', you gas-eatin' broncho! - Badass Normal: He has no powers other than being a crack shot with his guns, experienced with a lasso, impressive overall skill, amazing tenacity and sheer bravery.
- Breakout Character: His animated debut in Justice League Unlimited would turn him into a quite the popular character.
- Cowboy: Greg's whole theme is being a cowboy superhero. In some versions he's an actual cowboy from the Old West, while others have him be a modern day vigilante with a fondness for them.
- Dark Is Not Evil: A variant, while his color scheme is undoubtedly heroic. When most people think of gunslingers with their faces covered by a bandanna, most people think of bandits or low-life outlaws. Greg is a hero through and through.
- Guns Akimbo: Like a proper gunslinger, Vigilante carries a pair of revolvers (his father's), with one holstered on each hip, two guns for each hand and twelve shots in total.
- The Gunslinger: He carries both of his father's revolvers and he's a crack shot when using both of them. He once threw six silver dollars in the air and shoot a hole through each of them before they hit the ground.
- Hidden Depths: As mentioned a few times, Greg was formerly a musician before things hit the fan. He's a capable enough singer and guitar player.
- Horseback Heroism: As expected of a cowboy, he is quite skilled with equines, being able to tame and ride broncos that would give even other professional rodeo employees some trouble.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: He uses a lot of trick shots in order to avoid killing with his guns.
- Knows the Ropes: Greg is second only to Wonder Woman when it comes to expertise with a lasso, and just like the Amazon, he uses his lasso both in combat and post-combat to restrain his opponents. One of his feats was using his lasso to take down a helicopter while riding on top of it. Which for Wonder Woman would be a piece of cake due to her Amazonian skills and strength, but for a normal human like Greg that's definitely impressive.
- Primary-Color Champion: Greg's bright blue jacket, red bandanna and white cowboy hat stand out the most from his design, showing off his role as a protagonist and hero. This is especially notable compared to his darker-colored counterparts.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Like any gunslinger from the west, he greatly favors the use of six-shooters as his ranged weapon.
- Spell My Name With An S: The spelling of his surname is either Sanders or Saunders.
- Spell My Name with a "The": Greg stands out from the other bearers of the Vigilante title by preceding it with a "The", denoting his status as the first Vigilante.
- Superhero Packing Heat: As a cowboy-type hero, he uses twin guns.
- Tragic Keepsake: Greg's dual revolvers were his father's before him: he now uses them to dispense his own brand of justice.
- Trapped in the Past: The defeat of Nebula Man scattered the Seven Soldiers across time and space. Greg ended up spending a couple of decades of his life in the Old West, which suited him just fine.
- Vigilante Man: As his hero name implies, he takes the law into his own hands to make the guilty pay. However, unlike the later bearers of the Vigilante title, he's much more merciful and heroic.
Earth-Two/New Earth
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: While just how bushy Greg's eyebrows are varies by the artist they are pretty much always much thicker than those of those around him.
- The Call Knows Where You Live:
- Greg wanted to be a singer-songwriter rather than follow in his lawman father's footsteps. Then his father was murdered and he was the only one around with the skills and the motivation to track down the killers.
- Later, despite several attempts to retire from gun slinging and his apparent death after trying to reform the Seven Soldiers of Victory Greg is found acting as the sheriff of a formerly lawless villain filled town, having seemingly given up entirely on his attempts to leave the life.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: While getting taken from the 1940s back to the American West during the 1800s by Nebula Man was a bit of a shock, he adjusted to the cowboy justice acceptable in the era well enough. It was when he was "rescued" only to find he was a several decades into what would have been his own "future" that he felt out of place, which lead to his (temporary) retirement from the superhero community.
- Retired Badass: After Greg was rescued from being stranded in the 1800s by Nebula Man, only to find he'd skipped several decades of what would have been his own life, was much younger than those who were once his contemporaries and had gotten a bit too comfortable with the cowboy justice of the old west he put away his mask, retired from the teams he was on and gave up the superhero life. Despite this he never lost his skill in marksmanship, donned to old costume to protect civilians and help other heroes out on occasion and eventually became a sheriff.
- Stage Names: As a musician Greg was known as "The Prairie Troubadour".
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: He carries a pair of revolvers but he doesn't use them to kill. He's an old school hero, who was operating during WWII and he abides by the rules where such costumed heroes don't kill unless they're on the field of battle in an official capacity. This is part of why, despite being an insanely good shot, he uses his lariat so often.
- Unexplained Recovery : In Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005) he’s killed off but shows up alive and looking decades younger in an Jimmy Olsen one-shot a few years later. The narration mentions he died and came back but the specifics aren’t given.
Earth-One
- Passing the Torch: In the original continuity, after retiring as The Vigilante, he trained his nephew Michael to fight crime as The Swashbuckler. The current canonicity of this in the New Earth is unclear.
- Retired Badass: H was retired from heroics for a time and took a job as a security guard for a power plant. However once he finds out that there was something sinister going on with said plant, he sprang back into action.
DCAU
- A-Team Firing: He can't hit the broadside of the barn if the show needs him to be. Shayera lampshades this.Shayera: Can you even see where you're shooting at!?
- Badass Biker: He uses what appears to be a Harley Davidson-esque bike for transportation, one of his stand-out scenes was using it as a bomb against General Eiling. It may not have worked but it was a badass scene.
- Day in the Limelight: He gets a bit more screentime in the JLU episodes: "Hunter's Moon" and "Patriot Act".
- Fanboy: Fittingly he's a big fan of Clint Eastwood, he even tells Shining Knight to watch what he says about Dirty Harry if he wants to keep watching movies with him.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Him and Shining Knight have quite the bromance going on.
- Odd Friendship: Has this with Shining Knight, one's a modern-day vigilante with a fondness for Cowboys, the other is an Arthurian knight Fish out of Temporal Water who still clings to his culture even if he's not in the right era. How they managed to strike a Bromance is anybody's guess, the only out-of-universe explenation is the both of them being Seven Soldiers of Victory members in the comics.
- Those Two Guys: Him and Shining Knight are almost always seen together whether in missions (barring "Hunter's Moon") or out of it (such as hanging out in the cafeteria or watching Clint Eastwood films in Vigilante's room).
Vigilante I, Adrian Chase
Lawyer turned Vigilante.
First Appearance: New Teen Titans Vol 1 #23, 1982
Created by: Marv Wolfman · George Pérez
A former district attorney turned murderous vigilante after a mob boss he put away had his family murdered. He later became a judge and stepped away from his vigilante work, but returned to the role for what he intended to be one last job of killing the Peacemaker, another vigilante who had gunned down David Winton. Unfortunately, Adrian lost the fight and was publicly unmasked, forcing him to become the Vigilante full time. He frequently questioned his own motives and methods, and eventually killed himself.
In the afterlife, he would eventually end up in Purgatory with other morally-ambiguous and deceased heroes due to his actions as Vigilante. During Day of Judgement, he helped the Sentinels of Magic escape, gaining an appeal to Heaven in the process.
Just like Gregory, Adrian would make appearances in other media, although mostly in live-action. A version of him would appear in Arrow although the title of Vigilante was given to another character (Vincent Sobel) making him into Decomposite Character. Adrian Chase as Vigilante would finally appear in the Peacemaker (2022), although as quite the departure from his comic book self, acting more akin to Deadpool more than anything. For tropes related to the Peacemaker (2022) version go here.
- Anti-Hero: Comes with the territory being a Vigilante Man, although it slowly crosses into Nominal Hero once Sanity Slippage kicks in.
- Badass Biker: His main mode of transportation is a special motorcycle, just like Greg before him.
- Bad Liar: Unlike other vigilantes of his time, Adrian is an absolutely terrible liar. His friends and lovers can tell something's off with him every time the Vigilante crises get bigger, and the police don't believe his word for a second in his testimony following Alan's death.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": His costume is decorated with white and blue decals/accents that vaguely look like the letter V.
- Cold Sniper: Is almost always armed with a sniper rifle when out on his missions.
- Cop Killer: Adrian kills a police officer for the first time in issue #37. It's the largest sign that he's finally beginning to lose what remaining bits of heroism he still has left.
- Crusading Lawyer: Adrian was a dedicated and passionate lawyer before the bombing that left him a widow and permanently changed his outlook on life.
- Didn't Think This Through: After he kills Alan and Electrocutioner, Adrian frames Electrocutioner for his crimes and reports Alan's death as a mugging to protect his legacy. The story is so full of holes that it cracks under the barest scrutiny, and the attempted coverup tracks back to Adrian pretty much immediately even if the police can't necessarily prove it.
- Doom Magnet: By the end of the series, Adrian's actions have either killed or ruined the lives of everyone he comes across, with J.J., Alan, Dave, and Arthur dead, Theresa fleeing, Marcia driven insane, countless dead and traumatized citizens left in his wake, inspiring plenty of unprepared people to take up vigilante justice and suffer for it, and ultimately Adrian himself committing suicide.Adrian: I never meant for the innocent to get hurt.
Batman: Small comfort. But you always wind up hurting everyone who gets in your way. - Driven to Suicide: In the final issue Adrian puts his own revolver under his chin and pulls the trigger.
- Dramatic Unmask: After losing to the Peacemaker, Chris decided to further humiliate him by publically unmasking him and allowing people to find out his secret identity.
- Deathly Unmasking: In a way, the Peacemaker unmasking and revealing his identity would eventually lead to Adrian's death. Because with Adrian no longer having a secret identity, he was forced to become Vigilante full-time and causing severe mental issues that lead him to take his own life.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Over a decade after his suicide, Adrian got the chance to help save the world from the Spectre poshumously, earning an appeal into Heaven in the process.
- Everyone Has Standards: Violent though he may be, Adrian has lines he won't cross, at least until he completely loses it.
- As violent as he was from the beginning, what made him sympathetic is that he would only outright kill in self-defense - in any other situation, he only aimed to incapacitate. Once he starts going out with the intent to kill, it becomes clear that he's falling past the point of no return.
- When he learns he attacked a man who turned out to be innocent, he was so shocked and horrified that he actually gave up the mantle for a while and tried to stick to the law. When he found he couldn't stay away, he at least took the time to make sure his victims were actually guilty before he attacked to ensure he never harmed another innocent.
- Though he'll attack other heroes if they get in his way, he makes a point of not aiming to kill even when he's hopelessly outclassed against them. When a fight against Cyborg causes a lot of damage to the Teen Titan, he gives up his chase peacefully.
- When he was nominated for a judgeship and decided to run, he immediately declared that if he was voted in, the Vigilante would have to "die". Criminal though he may be, even he thought that being a judge and a vigilante was too much of a conflict of interest.
- He's utterly disgusted by the second Vigilante's casual murder of police officers. Killing a police officer in issue 37 cements his Fallen Hero status.
- Fallen Hero: "Hero" might be a bit too strong a term but when Adrian first created the Vigilante identity he at least had a code of not harming emergency service personnel and the victims of those he was hunting—which, by the time of his death, he's ditched his morals completely.
- Heel Realization: Adrian stops himself from killing Stryker after he realizes he shot at Cyborg, a teenaged hero, to get to him. Forcing Adrian to realize he's become really fallen from his role as a Vigilante Man.
- The Hero Dies: His Heel Realization, Sanity Slippage, Peacemaker outing his identity, and the deaths of various friends, either by taking up his mantle or being associated with him, would end up driving Adrian to end his own life.
- Hypocrite:
- Adrian monologues about how those who avoid the lawful repercussions of their crimes need to be killed while breaking about every traffic law in existence while fleeing the police, and while shooting Titans who have been been called in as backup by law enforcement in order to escort prisoners, all while yelling that he can't allow them to take him in.
- Some of Adrian's most frequent foes are other vigilantes, including other people who took up his own moniker, highlighting just why random individuals playing Judge, Jury, and Executioner just makes those individuals murderers.
- It's All My Fault: Adrian blames himself for his family's death, considering them to have died due to what he had been, and for J.J.'s death, considering him to have died due to what he became. While blaming himself for his wife and children's deaths makes little sense, J.J.'s murder could have easily been prevented. As more and more of his friends and associates end up dead in ways tied to the Vigilante persona, these feelings become worse.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Adrian becomes shocked and ashamed when he realizes that he almost struck Marcia, his first real love since Doris.
- One-Way Visor: The visor goggles on his mask have opaque red lenses, that do a good job invoking Red Eyes, Take Warning and also hiding his identity.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: One of the few things in common he has with the previous Vigilante (Greg) is their love for six shooters.
- Sanity Slippage: The events over the course of the series do a number on Chase's psyche; it doesn't end well.
- Spree Killer: What Adrian ultimately becomes in the final issue; indiscriminately harming and gunning down an assortment of petty criminals, civilians and law enforcement personnel. Which completely shows how far he's fallen from his original goals.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Adrian taking up the mantle ultimately leads to both Alan and David taking it up as well, leading to a lot of deaths he most certainly didn't intend.
- Vigilante Man: Provides the page image. Adrian Chase hunted down and killed crooks who got off, or whom he though had got off too lightly. Chase eventually became a Deconstruction of vigilante justice, and ended up committing suicide due to his guilt over the increasing violence of his methods and actions.
- Villain Protagonist: While he starts out in a slightly more grey area than a straight up villain, by the end of the series he's willing to kill cops, even other heroes, unarmed villains and his targets' victims to get to his prey or escape. Although he would finally reach a Heel Realization and end up taking his own ife.
- Would Hit a Girl: In a sign of how far he's fallen, he ends up slapping around his last girlfriend.
Vigilante II, Alan Welles
Judge turned Vigilante
First Appearance: Vigilante Vol 1 #7, 1984
Created by: Marv Wolfman · Chuck Patton
A good judge and friend of Adrian's who suffered a mental breakdown. After Adrian retried as Vigilante, Alan adopted the name and costume in issue 20, but his methods and irrationality lead to Adrian killing him for the protection of others by issue 27.
- Abusive Parents: Both of Alan's father figures growing up abused him heavily, beating into him his love for justice above all else.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Ultimately, as insane as he is, Alan truly believes in the righteousness of his cause and really did mean well, and he dies desperately trying to get Adrian to see that he was just trying to help. Adrian even cries over his corpse and closes his eyes while apologizing for what he became.
- Anti-Hero Substitute: Adrian was already pretty anti-heroic, but Alan removes what few scruples he had, leaving only a dangerous lunatic who kills anyone in his way, even if they're just cops doing their jobs or innocents who happen to be there.
- Arc Villain: He's the main villain from issues #20-27, as Adrian can't truly leave the Vigilante behind until his copycat is dealt with.
- Big Bad Friend: In their civilian lives, Adrian and Alan are good friends. This bleeds into their confrontation, as Alan refuses to attack Adrian until he's attacked first and spends the fight trying to flee rather than stand his ground against his friend.
- Cop Killer: It's established very early on that, unlike Adrian, Alan is willing to kill cops, even those only doing their jobs.
- Death by Irony: He's killed by the same man whose crusade inspired him to become a vigilante in the first place.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He truly does care about Adrian in more ways than just as a successor for his mantle, and he spends the entire battle against him desperately trying to get Adrian to stand down instead of attacking him.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Zig-zagged; he talks a big game about how he doesn't like harming cops and innocents and always seems to genuinely mean it when he says it, but when the chips go down, he'll kill anyone in his way if it'll help him in some way. The only person he refuses to harm is Adrian.
- Evil Counterpart: Alan is what you get if you take Adrian's violent methods, jack up the self-righteousness, and remove his moral scruples. The end result is a violent mass murderer who will even kill cops and innocents while swearing to the end that he's doing the right thing.
- Fallen Hero: Alan was once a noble crusader for justice through legal channels and was even the man who nominated Adrian for a judgeship, but a mental breakdown has turned him into little more than a psychopathic mass murderer.
- Foil: He is his predecessor Adrian's perfect equal and opposite.
- Adrian was meticulous in his work and terrified by the chance he'd harm an innocent; in fact, the one time he did so, he outright quit the Vigilante business. Alan constantly says he'd never hurt an innocent, but kills them by the truckload whenever they're in his way.
- Adrian only deliberately targeted villains until he started to completely unravel near the end of his life, yet he constantly wondered if he was truly doing the right thing. Alan is 100% confident in his goals and intentions, completely ignoring the trail of dead bodies he leaves behind.
- Adrian did kill people, but only in self-defense; if a non-lethal option was available, he'd take it. For Alan, Murder Is the Best Solution no matter who he's dealing with.
- Both Adrian and Alan eventually suffer mental illness and Sanity Slippage, but while Adrian was driven insane by the stress of being the Vigilante, Alan's mental breakdown is what made him take up the moniker.
- Finally, both are killed by Adrian himself when he comes to realize they're too dangerous to keep alive, but while Adrian comes to this realization himself and kills himself out of guilt, Alan refuses to be reasoned with and has to be put down like the wild animal he is.
- Freudian Excuse: Alan grew up in a rough part of the city and had two very abusive father figures, both of whom drove in the need to respect the law by extreme force. It led to his absolute dedication to justice and eventually taking on the Vigilante mantle.
- Hypocrite:
- He goes on and on about how he's defending the innocent and respects police officers, but he'll kill both of them without any hesitation or regret even if there's literally no reason to do it.
- Just like Adrian, he himself is a murderous vigilante, but he attacks other vigilantes if they cross his path. In particular, he dies just after a confrontation with the Electrocutioner.
- Legacy Character: Of all things, Deconstructed. Alan takes up Adrian's mantle after he retires from the job, ostensibly to pick up where he left off and continue his mission to protect the innocent and dispense justice. However, he doesn't truly understand Adrian's mission and methods and lacks many of his moral scruples, meaning that he becomes so dangerous that Adrian himself has to kill him.
- Misplaced Retribution: The moment Adrian realizes that he's Beyond Redemption is when he kills a lawyer's girlfriend just because she happened to be there when he targeted him. Alan could have easily left her alive, yet went out of his way to gun her down too just for associating with his target.
- One-Man Army: Everywhere this Vigilante goes, a whole lot of death is left behind him.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Alan knew that Adrian was the Vigilante since the night that he gave up the mantle, but never tells Adrian until he's dying.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Alan is a key part of Adrian's fall from grace and into insanity, something that he didn't intend to happen but eventually leads to the suicide of his former friend and predecessor.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: As insane and murderous as he is, what truly makes Alan such a threat is that he genuinely believes that he's doing the right thing for the people. As a result, there are very few lines he's unwilling to cross for the sake of his goal.
Vigilante III, David Winston
Bailiff turned Vigilante
First Appearance: Vigilante Vol 1 #23, 1985
Created by: Paul Kupperberg · Tod Smith
A bailiff in Judge Chase's courtroom who took up the Vigilante name and costume following Alan Welles' death. He would end up being killed by Peacemaker when attempting to save Chase and his girlfriend Marcie.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Winston's death at Peacemaker's hands is what leads to Adrian taking the moniker back up again, leading to the confrontation with Peacemaker that outs his identity and, eventually, his suicide.
Vigilante IV, Patricia Trayce
Cop turned Vigilante
First Appearance: Deathstroke the Terminator Vol 1 #6, 1992
Created by: Marv Wolfman · Steve Erwin
A former policewoman from Gotham City who grew frustrated with the corruption on the force and criminals getting away scott-free.
- Dating Catwoman: She was romantically involved with Slade Wilson/Deathstroke for a time.
- Distaff Counterpart: She's currently the only female who has taken the Vigilante moniker.
- Fair Cop: She was certainly an attractive police officer, and her costume didn't hide her gender at all.
- Missing Mom: When she left her old life behind to pursue criminals outside of the scope of the law she left behind her family as well, which included an adopted son who stayed with his father after she turned vigilante.
Vigilante V, Justin Powell
Psychiatrist turned Vigilante
First Appearance: Vigilante Vol 2 #1, 2005
Created by: Bruce Jones · Ben Oliver
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- Red and Black and Evil All Over: He's the first holder of the Vigilante mantle to straight up ditch the white and blue accents, opting to only have red as his sole bright color. And he just so happens to be a serial killer.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Unlike those before him, instead of having a white and blue decals that look like V's on his costume, his chest has a huge blood red V on it.
- Villain Protagonist: While most of those who have held the title at least wanted to help, though they'd given up on the system and became... well Vigilantes, Justin is never framed as possibly being in a grey area, it's clear from the get-go he's a dangerous serial killer.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Invoked with his red and glowing three-eyed goggles in comparison to the red visors used by previous Vigilantes and he just so happens to be the outright serial killer of the bunch.
- Serial Killer: Uses his day job as psychiatrist to find targets when he moonlights as Vigilante.
Vigilante VI, Dorian Chase
Brother of the Lawyer turned Vigilante.
First Appearance: Nightwing Vol 2 #133, 2007
Created by: Marv Wolfman · Jamal Igle
The brother of the former lawyer turned vigilante who took up the title following Adrian's suicide.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Unlike his predecessors whom mostly wore normal goggles or visors, his mask has a red V-shaped visor. Somewhat following Justin Powell's idea of using a red V instead of the blue and white.
- Remember the New Guy?: He didn't make an appearance once during his brother's tenure as Vigilante, nor the subsequent years of his brother trying to distance himself from the mask he'd created and trying to discourage the others who kept taking it up.
- Villain Protagonist: He's a mercenary and serial killer who spends his first appearance torturing Dick Grayson, and then proceeds to start hunting Teen Titans as he has intel indicating one of them is "corrupt".
Vigilante VII, Donald Fairchild
Janitor turned Vigilante
First Appearance: Vigilante: Southland #1, 2016
Created by: Gary Phillips · Elena Casagrande
A janitor turned vigilante after the death of his girlfriend, to fight crime in his neighborhood.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: The first and only African American to take up the Vigilante mantle.
- Civvie Spandex: In comparison to the more "tactical" suits worn by previous Vigilantes (barring Greg), his outfit clearly appears to be made from normal yet custom clothing with the white and blue accents (fully ditching the red) of the usual Vigilante color scheme.
- Conspicuous Gloves: Wears a pair of fingerless gloves that help emphasize his rather brawler-like style in comparison to his trigger-happy predecessors.
Allies
William "Billy" Gunn
Greg Sanders first sidekick as the Vigilante was Billy Gunn, a former stage performer known as "The Times Square Cowboy". Billy learned about the Wild West through books and never traveled there himself. Billy parted company with the Vigilante around the same time Vig acquired a younger sidekick: Stuff, the Chinatown. Billy apparently kept crime fighting in a small way, and would later be murdered while attempting to deliver a warning to the Seven Soldiers of Victory about their supposed ally the Spider.
First Appearance: Action Comics Vol 1 #43, 1941
Created by: Mort Meskin
- Cool Old Guy: Billy was a lot less annoying in comparison to many of the sidekicks of the 40s, while he wasn't exactly a proper cowboy he was a reliable friend of Greg.
- In-Series Nickname: "The Times Square Cowboy"
- Older Sidekick: Billy is a grey-haired old man who aids the twenty-something Vigilante in his crime fighting.
The Chinatown Kid, Daniel Leong
A Chinese American from Chinatown in New York City who became the sidekick/partner of The Vigilante in the late 1930s. In the 1940s he joined the All-Star Squadron and the Seven Soldiers of Victory alongside his mentor.
First Appearance: Action Comics Vol 1 #45, 1942
Created by: Mort Weisinger · Mort Meskin
- Dead Sidekick: He was less a sidekick and more independent by the time it happened but Greg was still understandably horrified to find Daniel murdered.
- In-Series Nickname: Daniel Leong's nickname is "Stuff".
- Kid Sidekick: While he's definitely a teen and then quickly becomes a bit old to be called a "kid" Daniel Leong is Gregory Sanders' younger sidekick.
- Red Is Heroic: As The Chinatown Kid he wears a variety of red shirts with black stripes, along with a white Dixie Cup hat.
- The Trope Kid: The Chinatown Kid.
Theresa Gomez
Adrian Chase's research assistant.
- Mission Control: Terry would man the radios while Chase was out tracking down criminals.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Adrian's reaction to J.J. murder is to go on an ill conceived rampage Terry decides it's time for her and her son to cut ties with him for their own safety.
J.J. Davis
Adrian Chase's "computer whiz and weapons expert".
- Porn Stache: J.J. sported a very 1980s thin moustache.
- Retcon: His death was retconned to have been fake years after the series in which it occurred had ended.
