"DC's first superhero" Crimson Avenger Appreciation

[MajorHoy]

He murdered his wife, Elizabeth Kessler, who was also a comic artist, with a hammer in front of their child. He was convicted of the murder in 1988 and was released a few years ago.

An odd side note - apparently Elizabeth Kessler wasn't her real name. She stole her college roommate's identity when she moved to NYC.

http://www.afbforum.com/index.php?topic=5286.0

[Sandy Hausler]

I'm inclined to put these Vigilante appearances with the Bob Haney Brave and the Bolds where Batman starred with Earth Two characters without any dimensional explanation.

Vigilante also appeared in Gerard Jones's El Diablo series. Good stuff!

Sandy Hausler

[MajorHoy]

[MajorHoy]

A few more pages from The Crimson Avenger #1, cover-dated June 1988:

[Kaled]

A new Crimson Avenger was introduced in JSA during the Ultra-Humanite storyline but she is a complete mystery because she appear in the JSA book one more time before Geoff Johns left the book.

[Güicho]

Once put this out there in lieu of a possible Green Hornet crossover, as something I wanted to see way back when Batman B&tB was airing.
Don't know if they ever did an episode.
But this was my take on the Avenger for B&tB

[MajorHoy]

In addition to this from Who's Who Update '88, Vol. 1 (August 1988):

There had previously been the version wearing his later costume, as was presented in Who's Who Vol. V (July 1985):

[MajorHoy]

from Golden Age Secret Files #1 (February 2001):

[MajorHoy]

more from Secret Origins #5 (August 1986):

[MajorHoy]

By the way, even though I've never read the story, Crimson Avenger (as well as Hourman) show up for the last two issues of Sandman Mystery Theatre.


from Sandman Mystery Theatre #69 (January 1999)

[signalman112]

There is an article in BACK ISSUE #106 about the Crimson Avenger "Secret Origins" story and his mini-series that Greg Brooks drew.
Nice have a bit info about Brooks. Anyway it was new to me.

[MajorHoy]

Some more pages from The Crimson Avenger #1, cover-dated June 1988:

[Raijin]

A maxiseries or any series in general about an aging vigilante who tries to adapt to heroism in the modern world would be something i'd love to see done with Crimson Avenger. I know concepts like that have been done to death. But i do believe you can take something that's overdone and make it fresh.


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[MajorHoy]

Back to this:

I do think one cool but ultimately harmful story beat was that one story that wrote Lee Travis somehow viewed a vision of Superman fighting Doomsday and dying IE scenes from Death of Superman and that inspired his crusade as the Crimson Avengers to some extent.

If he's going to be the hero everyone looks up to (even if he himself wasn't aware he would be one day) we don't need HIM somehow being inspired by Superman of all things.

I figured for Veterans Day/Armistice Day 2018 (the 100th Anniversary of the end of "The Great War") it was worth showing this from Golden Age Secret Files and Origins #1: