The Vigilante #28
In "Rebirth," the 1986 issue of The Vigilante, writer Paul Kupperberg and artist Tod Smith craft a tense, layered mystery as the city grapples with the aftermath of two dead vigilantes—both assumed to be one and the same. With the police closing in and the truth buried beneath lies, Adrian Chase finds himself entangled in a web of guilt and deception, especially after a new Vigilante emerges, targeting a contract killer and reigniting old suspicions. Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz captures the issue’s noir edge with stark, expressive lines that mirror the story’s moral ambiguity.
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Both the Vigilante and the Electrocutioner are dead and the police assume that they were one and the same person as they both killed off bad guys. Harry Stein is convinced, however, that Adrian Chase is somehow connected to the Vigilante business as he brought in Alan Welles dead of a gunshot wound the day after Vigilante was killed. Adrian is, of course, trying to cover up for the fact that his friend and fellow judge was the Vigilante and he was the guy who shot and killed him. Things get even more complicated for Adrian when yet another Vigilante shows up and takes out a contract killer.
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