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Issue: The Vigilante #15
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/13/1984
Volume: none
Pages: 36
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.60 CAD
$1.25 USD
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Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Originally solicited as a February release, but delayed a month, as confirmed by the resolicitation in DC Releases #10 and the copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Semi-gloss paper
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Vigilante [Adrian Chase]; Hank Weston (clown)
This is no joke, Vigilante -- You're Dead!
Dressed in his clown suit, Hank Weston takes aim at The Vigilante.
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Send in the Clowns

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Vigilante [Adrian Chase]; Marcia King; Alan Welles; Electrocutioner; Hank Weston (clown); several other circus clowns; Cynthia Weston; bank guard; various police
"I hadn't been to a circus, not since my family... died and I'd forgotten all about the smells and the noise and the flashlights swinging in the dark.
Vigilante interferes with the Electrocutioner whom he discovers killing the members of a child pornography ring. Later, the Electrocutioner goes after a circus clown who robbed a bank in order to pay for his wife's medical treatment but finds himself once again opposed by the Vigilante as well as a group of the clown's fellow performers.
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Page 14, panel 4: Three New York newspapers are shown for the usual purposes of plot exposition. Two of them are actual newspapers ("New York Newsday" and the "New York Post"), while one ("New York Times Tribune") is an amalgam of the "New York Times" and the defunct "New York Herald Tribune".

Creator reference (to Karl Kesel) Page 12, panel 2: A handbill saying "Thanks, Karl", pasted to a lamppost.

The Electrocutioner reappears after The Vigilante (DC, 1983 Series) #8-9.

The climax of this story is something akin to the movie "Freaks" (1932), only with clowns.
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Dear Dick, This is a column that will touch the lips of controversy, stoke the flames of discontent.
Fabian Nicieza discusses controversy and growth in modern comics.
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Letter column shares space with an ad for Batman and the Outsiders, illustrated by Jim Aparo.

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