Action Comics #184
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Covered Wagon of Doom!", a penitentiary poetry club takes a dangerously poetic turn when inmates, disguised in guard uniforms, stage a breakout and launch a crime spree fueled by verse. As they outwit authorities and humiliate The Vigilante by stealing his new Vig-cycle, their rhyming antics turn the city upside down—leaving readers wondering just how far their lyrical lawlessness will go. Penciled and inked by Bob Brown, with a dynamic cover by Win Mortimer, this 1953 classic blends crime, comedy, and a uniquely literary flair in a 10-cent adventure.
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During a meeting of a convict poetry club in a penitentiary, inmates knock out the guards and escape wearing their uniforms. They embark on a crime spree, spouting poetry, humiliating The Vigilante in the process by stealing his new Vig-cycle and gloating about it in rhyme.
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