Action Comics #75
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Aesop's Modern Fables," the Vigilante and his partner Stuff confront a reformed criminal known as The Dummy, who's trying to go straight after opening a swap shop. When a string of blunderbuss thefts rocks the city, the duo tracks the thief—The Lash—only to uncover a surprising connection between him and The Dummy. Art by Mort Meskin with inks by George Roussos, and a cover by Wayne Boring, this 1944 issue blends moral fables with early superhero detective work in a story that's as clever as it is quietly suspenseful.
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The Vigilante and Stuff attend the parole board meeting for The Dummy, who claims he is rehabilitated. The Vigilante decides he ought to have another chance, providing he pays back the loot from the last robbery he committed. So, The Dummy opens up a swap shop and appears to be going straight. A thief calling himself The Lash breaks into the Robertson home and steals an old blunderbuss. He then continues to steal blunderbusses, and when Vigilante and Stuff give chase they find themselves near The Dummy's swap shop. They later pursue The Lash and find that he and The Dummy are in cahoots.
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