Comic Title: Vigilante #40
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1987
On Sale Date: January 2, 1987 Newsstand Date January 2, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #35

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #35

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #107

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #112

Copyright Date December 9, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "God Save the Children"
Pages: 28

Feature(s):
Vigilante (Adrian Chase Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Tod Smith
Inker: Greg Brooks
Letterer: Duncan Andrews
Colorist: Liz Berube

Feature Character(s)

• Vigilante (last appearance in Vigilante #39; next appearance in Vigilante #41)

Supporting Character(s)

• Harry Stein (last appearance in Vigilante #39; next appearance in Vigilante #41)
• Arthur Hall (last appearance in Vigilante #39; next appearance in New Teen Titans #36)

Villain(s)

• Bobby Danelli (a child pornographer; no further appearances)
• David R. Vaughn (no further appearances)
• Chloe and Lenny (bodyguards; no further appearances)
• Vaughn's clients (no further appearances)
• An unnamed child abductor (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mitch Chiminski (last appearance in Vigilante #39; no further appearances)
• Alice Chiminski (last appearance in Vigilante #39; no further appearances)
• Several abducted children (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Vigilante #39.

Synopsis:
Vigilante apprehends a pornographer and forces him to give up the name of the man behind the recent child abductions, David R. Vaughn. Adrian stages a raid on Vaughn's office. The crook is caught in the middle of filming his clients having sex with some of the abducted children. Vigilante shuts down Vaughn's operation, but he is unable to save many of the children who have already been shipped overseas as slaves for wealthy foreigners.