Action Comics #159
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Owned Superman," seventeen-year-old Eddie Meeks—sharpshooting, reckless, and driven by a ruthless streak—takes up bounty hunting after being fired as a deputy. With no qualms about killing for a reward, he’s willing to shoot a man in the back if it means the payday. The story, illustrated by Bob Brown with inks by the same, features a cover by Win Mortimer, capturing the gritty tension of a young man on the edge.
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At age seventeen Eddie Meeks is a sharpshooter with a pistol, but is reckless with a mean streak. His stint as a deputy results in the sheriff letting him go, so he embarks on a career as a bounty hunter. He has no compunctions about bring them back dead, providing there is a reward in it, even to shooting a crook in the back.
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