Cover Credits: Gene Colan ( pencils/inks )
Title: The Crimson Avenger ..........23 pg.

Credits: Roy and Dann Thomas ( co-plot, writer/ creative editor );Gene Colan( pencils ), Mike Gustovich ( inks ); David Cody Weiss( letters ); Carl Gafford ( colors ); Robert Greenberger ( coordinating editor )

Feature Characters: The Crimson Avenger ( Lee Walter Travis, first appearance, next Detective Comics #20/.. ), Wing ( Wing How, Lee Travis' Chauffeur, first appearance, next Detective Comics #20/ )

Guest Stars:

Villains: Winston W. Smythe ( behind the scenes, fakes his own death and leaves his newspaper, the New York Globe-Leader to Lee Travis, next Crimson Avenger #4 ), four robbers disguised as Martians ( first and only appearance for all, at least one dies in this story )

Other Characters: Claudia Barker ( a reporter from Downtowner magazine, a former freedom fighter, dies in this story ), Mr. Vangilder ( a wealthy socialite, dies ), Mrs. Vangilder ( first and only appearance ), Miss Stevens ( Lee Travis' secretary, appears next Crimson Avenger #1 ), Orson Wells ( over the radio only, next ... )

Chronological Commments: This story takes place October 30, 1938. Wing begins work for Lee Travis only two weeks before this story. Lee Travis is 25 years old in 1938.

Comments: This story is taken from Lee Travis' wire recorded journal.
This issue also contains a pin-up page of the cover of Detective Comics #22.

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