Quick Vigilante

Johnny Quick

When young Johnny Chambers’ parents were killed in a car crash, Professor Ezra Gill became his guardian. Gill was a genius mathematician working on a formula for something he called, “the secret of space and time.”

Gill told Johnny that when he died, he would pass the formula to him if he’d swear to use it wisely and in the cause of justice.

Gill died soon after and Johnny took up photography, using it for freelance jobs here and there. Then, he heard about a cameraman job at Sees All/Tells All, a newsreel company. He and Tubby Watts were assigned a job at the World’s Fair.

Johnny witnessed Sandman and the Crimson Avenger fighting Elektro but was knocked out before he could say the speed formula and provide assistance. After that, Johnny and Tubby became a permanent team.

Johnny didn’t know if the formula would work again, but when he learned that it did…

…during the following years, a mystery crime-crusher arises to battle the foes of justice: Johnny Quick, a lone avenger who flashes through the night like a comet in the sky… and becomes the scourge of the underworld.

Vigilante

Who is this Vigilante… gun-fightin’ ranny of the range who has ridden out of the west to battle outlaws of the metropolis with smoking six-guns and twirling lariat?

Greg Sanders was also known as a singer/songwriter called, “the Prairie Troubadour.” He used this persona as a conduit for people in trouble to reach the Vigilante.

Stuff, the Chinatown Kid

During a stroll through Chinatown, Greg Sanders tried to cool a young hothead, Daniel Leung.

Naw! A drugstore cowboy like you can’t help me! My grandpop’s in hot water up to his ears. That’s why all the kids on my block are teasing me! I gotta help him beat the rap!

And so, Leung became the Vigilante’s sidekick, “Stuff, the Chinatown Kid.”