Comic Title: Vigilante #50
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1988
On Sale Date: October 13, 1987 Shipping Date October 13, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #45

Shipping Date October 13, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #127

Copyright Date October 13, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

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

Title: "A Life"
Pages: 27

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

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Steve Erwin
Inker: Jack Torrance
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Liz Berube

Feature Character(s)

• Vigilante (dies in this story; last appearance in Vigilante #49; no further appearances)

Supporting Character(s)

• Harvey Bullock (last appearance in Vigilante #49; next appearance in Action Comics #598)
• Black Thorn (last appearance in Vigilante #49; next appearance in Checkmate #1)
• Harry Stein (last appearance in Vigilante #48; next appearance in Peacemaker #1)
• Arthur Hall (last appearance in Vigilante #49; next appearance in New Teen Titans #42)

Villain(s)

• Various street criminals (most die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Several police officers (Murphy named; no further appearances)
• A group of teenagers (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Peacemaker (in flashback)
• Vigilante (Dave Winston; in flashback)
• Doris, Adam, and Drew Chase (in flashback)
• Alan Welles (in flashback)
• Marcia King (in flashback)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Vigilante #49

Synopsis:
Adrian Chase is haunted by his own past. After a fight with Black Thorn he leaves his apartment and begins walking the streets. He dons his costume and attacks various street criminals. He is maniacal in his approach. Arthur Hall and the police are on his trail and ready to set a trap for him. They stage a shootout which draws the Vigilante to the area. Adrian shoots several cops including Hall. He then flees the scene.

Adrian returns to his apartment. He realizes that he was trying to kill himself, but his opponents were not good enough to complete the task for him. He takes his own gun and shoots himself. When Black Thorn returns to the apartment she finds Adrian dead.