Vigilante is a western superhero who carries around two guns, he is a master shooter and he rides a motorcycle. His arch enemies are The Dummy and The Rainbow Man.

Greg Sanders' grandfather was a famous Indian fighter who helped open up the American West to settlement in the 19th Century before he was killed by an arrow in a battle with Indians. Greg's father continued this fightingg tradition, but he battled criminals - becoming a sheriff out west. Greg was born in Wyoming and even as a child was thrilled to watch his father in a gunfight with criminals.

Eventually Greg went East and became a country singer on the radio. When Sheriff Sanders was killed by thieves out to steal a gold shipment he was guarding, Greg was called back from the East and tracked down the members of the gang. Afterwards, Sanders decided to devote his life to hhunting down criminals as the vigilantes did in the old west.

Thus Greg Sanders led two careers, one as radio singer, "Prairie Troubadour" and the other as the masked crimefighter who became known as the Vigilante. As the Vigilante, Sanders had adventures both in New York and in the West.

A secret agent for the Japanese - known as the Head - sought to provoke a Tong war in New York City's Chinatown area, and he framed Lin Chou, the wise leader of the White Lotus Tong, for wrongdoing. Lin Chou's young grandson Stuff, helped Vigilante battle the Head and his men and clear his grandfather's name. Stuff, "The Chinatown Kid" thereafter became the Vigilante's crime fighting sidekick.

The Vigilante was a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, who were also known as the Law's Legionnairres. The 7 Soldiers battles the Nebula Man and the tremendous force he unleashed hurled the Vigilante back in time to the days of the old West. Black Canary & Green Arrow, along with Johnny Thunder and his Thunderbolt found and brought the Vigilante, (who was little older than he had been when he fought the Nebula Man) back to their own time.

The man who had been known as "Stuff" as a boy was murdered by the Vigilante's arch foe the Dummy. The Vigilante and Stuff's son, "Stuff jr." brought the Dummy to justice, and the young man became Vigilante's new sidekick.