(Vigilante I #1) - Vigilante met Terry Gomez and JJ Davis who served as his research and computer assistants. He had Terry dispose of his wife and children's possessions, and he did the best he could to feel numb. Terry told him that her friend Eppie Reynolds needed help, her husband had been killed by Mr. Quilt. Vigilante wanted to focus on convicted criminals released on technicalities, but he knew how corrupt Quilt was, and took the case.

(Vigilante I #2) - Charles Chase made Adrian another offer to join his lawfirm, and reminded him that it was family business. Adrian still had no interest in a lavish lifestyle like his father, and despised the fact that he got white-collar criminals out of jail. JJ and Terry told him he was blowing through his inheritance, and he'd better find a way to profit from his activities as Vigilante. JJ quipped that he loved sleeping in a van and not eating three times a day. Terry told him that Leonard Kord, whom Adrian had convicted for raping a nun and leaving her for dead had his conviction overturned on appeal. Kord was living with his mother and neighbors made their lives Hell. Vigilante arrived and Kord, still pleading his innocence, attacked him. After a brawl Vigilante had him down and began to beat him mercilessly until JJ stopped him. He'd done some research and Kord was innocent, the attack was perpetrated by the son of an Alganian ambassador who forced his embassy guards to point the finger at Kord. Vigilante was disgusted with himself, and thought about calling it quits, having savaged an innocent. He joined his father's law firm despite JJ and Terry pleading with him to resume his vigilante career. Chasew Unlimited took the case of Senator Kuvlak's son, who was accused of rape. It was not his first offense, as Adrian had convicted him in his DA days. Charles said they had an obligation to defend him, and Adrian said he could go hang and quit. Terry and JJ were ecstatic to see Adrian back in his crimefighting gear.

(Vigilante I #3) - Vigilante's next target was William Stryker, who'd been picked up for gun possession, but Vigilante thought death was an appropriate sentence, not one year in jail. JJ was thrilled that the man who destroyed his life was going to face Vigilante's justice. He attacked the police convoy transporting Stryker to Attica twice, and the police got New Teen Titan Cyborg to escort Stryker to jail. Cyborg drove Stryker, but the car was hit with an armor piercing shell, and Vigilante pursued them through the woods. Cyborg questioned Vigilante's notion of justice and doubted that he'd only killed in self-defense or the defense of others as he claimed. Vigilante said he couldn't let Cyborg take him in, shooting him in the shoulder, causing him to black out. Vigilante questioned his own sense of justice, and instead of killing Stryker he threatened him until he confessed to where evidence against him for his heinous crimes could be found. JJ was disappointed, but agreed with Vigilante that responding to hate with hate was too easy, and wouldn't make them heroes. Vigilante said he was no longer a killer.

(Vigilante I #4) - Adrian, Terry and JJ attended the trial of movie star Grace Moore, who was accused of murdering her husband and co-star Clark Reynolds. Witness Gretchyn Bjorn was shot on the courthouse steps by the Exterminator, and Chase changed into Vigilante and pursued him. Their rooftop fight led to the Exterminator falling into the water below. The Exterminator showed up again to kill witness Cynthia Grant. Adrian got a hold of the DA witness list, and when Terry told him her son was sick he told her to go home, he only wished he could still be with his children. Vigilante stopped the Exterminator from killing witness Mr. Levine, but after falling from his helicopter the assassin disappeared. The news reported Moore's conviction, and the destruction of another symbol of American values.

(Vigilante I #5, 6) - Vigilante caught the assassin Cannon in the act of fulfilling a hit, and they battled, but Cannon saw his mission through. the police arrived, and Cannon surrendered, but Captain Hall said he was going to take in Vigilante for the murders of Quilt and Brand. Vigilante repeated that it was self-defense, but couldn't allow himself to be taken in because he had work to do, and fled. JJ and Terry researched the hit, and the victim was Marco Rinaldi, head of a NY mob, so they feared a coming game war. Vigilante told them to keep up the good work, and he went to a party with Marcia King, the new assistant DA, finding an interest in a partner for the first time since his wife's death. They hit it off and spent the night together. Cannon and Saber, who'd killed the heads of each other's crime families, but planned to put them into witness protection for evidence against their mobs. Adrian told Marcia he disagreed with her decision, but she reminded him he wasn't DA anymore. Adrian confronted Cannon and Sabre in his identity as the Vigilante, and learned that they were planning to take over NY's crime families. He fought them, and all three were grievously injured. JJ and Terry were frantic, and JJ followed stole an ambulance to save Vigilante, with the police in pursuit. JJ stripped Vigilante of his costume and dropped him off at a hospital. He prayed that he'd live, not knowing what his life would be without him. JJ and Terry disposed of the admittance papers so the police wouldn't be notified of his gunshot wound, and Adrian soon healed. The doctor's were interested in his enhanced resilience, but he fled with his aides. He told them it was time they knew about how he transformed from Adrian Chase into the Vigilante.

(Vigilante I #7) - Adrian and Marcia went for a jog, and continued their flirtation. Judge Welles was exercising as well, and said he was sorry that Marcia's deal with Cannon and Saber had gone south since they'd escaped police custody. She chalked it up to overexuberance on her part. Welles said judge Wilson Turner was retiring, and he thought Adrian would be a good replacement. Adrian finally told JJ and Terry how he came to be the Vigilante. Terry and JJ were a bit incredulous about his tale of being trained by vengeful spirits, and JJ thought his story needed more sex in it.

(Vigilante I #8, 9, 10 (BTS)) - Vigilante stopped a criminal from stealing a microchip from Newmark Industries. The thief chased him in a helicopter into the subways, but Vigilante disabled his craft and handed him over to the police. Adrian, Terry and JJ saw Geraldo Cardazy released because of a bad search warrant, and made him the Vigilante's next target, but the Electrocutioner got to him first. Welles revealed a keen interest in the Vigilante to Adrian, making him nervous. Terry learned that the microchip thief, Ebert, had tied to a NY mob, and recently all the mobs had been brought together under the rule of the Controller. Ebert was free on bail, and in the Electrocutioner's sights. Electrocutioner said they could kill him together, and was displeased to hear Vigilante say he only killed in self-defense. He set an electric fire and knocked out Vigilante, telling him it would be best if he left the Electrocutioner to his work unhindered. Vigilante recovered and tried to rescue Ebert from the inferno, and the roof fell in on him, but he escaped. JJ tracked the microchip's mainframe to Sarandon Factories and hacked in while Vigilante pounded the streets looking in mob hangouts for clues. JJ decided to check out Sarandon himself, but the Controller was expecting him, and had a hitman placed there to shoot him. Adrian and Terry watched a news report about a body fished out of the Hudson, and the picture they showed of the victim was JJ. Terry and Adrian attended JJ's funeral, and Adrian swore revenge.

JJ had a cameo in Vigilante I #11, 33, 50.

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