Golden Age Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis)

NOTE: Previous thread title = Happy Belated 75th Anniversary Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis)
First appearance: Detective Comics #20 (October 1938)



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So, Happy 76th Anniversary?

I think the original costume suited him better than the red tights. But that said, Whatever Happened to the Crimson Avenger from DC Comics Presents #38 is still probably my all-time favourite DC Comics story...

And this year will mark the 80th Anniversary of the original Crimson Avenger!


(from Sandman Mystery Theatre #43)


(from History of the DC Universe)

A character who really deserves more exposure, but is unlikely ever to get it. First time I ever saw him was in DC Comics Presents #38, and Whatever Happened to the Crimson Avenger is still one of my all-time favourite stories.

from Golden Age Secret Files & Origins #1 (2001):

"Travis's two-fisted alter ego." Um... was Travis normally one-handed, or something?

Lucy Ingram wrote:"Travis's two-fisted alter ego." Um... was Travis normally one-handed, or something?

Definition of two-fisted
: marked by vigorous often virile energy : HARD-HITTING ·two-fisted journalism

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/two-fisted

Should we wish him a "Happy Belated 81st Anniversary" or go ahead and say "Happy 82nd Anniversary" now?

(According to the GCD, Detective Comics #20 went on sale back on September 7th, 1938.)

MajorHoy wrote:Should we wish him a "Happy Belated 81st Anniversary" or go ahead and say "Happy 82nd Anniversary" now?

(According to the GCD, Detective Comics #20 went on sale back on September 7th, 1938.)

After Roy Thomas' work with the Golden Age Crimson Avenger in Secret Origins #5 (August 1986) and a four-issue mini-series that began in 1988, the character was given a revised Who's Who entry in Who's Who Update '88 Vol. 1 (August 1988):

Still got that!

MajorHoy wrote:

Since I only posted the illustration for the Crimson Avenger's original Who's Who entry, here's a version that also includes the text.

Originally in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. V (July 1985)

I'm wondering if the Crimson is going to show up on the Stargirl show at some point.

By the way, here's all six pages of that first Crimson Avenger story from Detective Comics #20 (October 1938):

Nice, I don't think I've ever seen this before.

tony ingram wrote:Nice, I don't think I've ever seen this before.

If I remember well DC Comics should have published some time ago an Hardcover/Omnibus with all the stories contained in Detective Comics # 01/26

Barry_Allen wrote:

tony ingram wrote:Nice, I don't think I've ever seen this before.

If I remember well DC Comics should have published some time ago an Hardcover/Omnibus with all the stories contained in Detective Comics # 01/26

I'll have to have a look around for that!

tony ingram wrote:

Barry_Allen wrote:
If I remember well DC Comics should have published some time ago an Hardcover/Omnibus with all the stories contained in Detective Comics # 01/26

I'll have to have a look around for that!

You should do that Tony, from this photo it cost only 10 cents.. well really, not, 150 bucks is the real price ot this two-volume slipcase, Doh!