Here's another take on a Golden Age hero. Vigilante : City Lights, Prairie Justice. Four-issue miniseries from 1995-96, collected into a TPB in 2009. A couple years after his amazing series the Golden Age, James Robinson took a swing at the singing cowboy hero.
Story set in mid-40s has Vig battling Bugsy Siegel and other gangsters in Vegas, as well as taking on his old foe the Dummy. Art by Tony Salmons - with a few fill-in pages from Bret Blevins - is powerful and impressionistic. Not standard comic stuff. A little Frank Miller, a little Kyle Baker. Salmons' comic credits are scattered. I really liked his Dakota North series for Marvel in the mid-80s. There's some of that same feel here.
Only quibble is that the TPB cover by Mark Chiarello isn't his best for the series. It's OK, but his covers for the first and fourth issues are fantastic. Either one would have made a better cover for the TPB.
Worth picking up for the 50s period details and for a more in-depth take on a classic DC character...
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