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4. America’s Most Wanted’s John Walsh and The Outsiders

So there are some weird comics on this list, for sure. But there are none as mind-blowingly head scratching as this one.

Hey, so remember America’s Most Wanted? The show? With the reenactments and the phone line and all that stuff? Right, that one. Ok, so remember John Walsh, the host of that show?

Yeah, so he was in a three issue arc of The Outsiders. No, not as a cameo, like Anderson Cooper in Black Widow. No, Walsh is a MAJOR part of the arc, which is even called “Most Wanted”.

In the story, The Outsiders are hunting a child sex trafficker. I know, sounds fun, right? But bear with me, it gets weird. So, as opposed to going out on their own, doing recon, shaking down criminals, and tracking down the guy (you know, like superheroes do) Nightwing suggests they go ask America’s Most Wanted to do a show about the guy.

So in comes John Walsh to help the team find the guy, using the most basic of technology. Walsh also winds up giving the team a tip about the guy’s location, instead of giving it to the police, so they can go about some good old-fashioned vigilante justice. I honestly just don’t know why these comics exist. Like, I actually can’t figure out in the slightest how this weird thing came to be. I actually want to know! I want this mystery solved for me! It’s very frustrating!