Red Menace (comics)
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| Publisher | Wildstorm |
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| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Mini-series |
| Publication date | January 2007 - |
| Number of issues | Six |
| Main character(s) | Steve Temaine Tommy Woods |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo and Adam Brody |
| Penciller(s) | Jerry Ordway |
| Inker(s) | Al Vey |
| Colorist(s) | Jonny Rench |
Red Menace is a six issue American comic book limited series published in 2007 by Wildstorm Productions.
The setting of this story is Los Angeles in 1953 at the time of Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee trials.
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[edit] Plot summary
At one of House Un-American Activities Committee trials a hero named The Eagle unmasks himself as Steve Tremaine. Later, at the trials the Committee use his war time friend named Ivan Petrovich "The Bear", a hero to the Soviet Union, to whom he sent a Christmas card and had drinks with in May of 1951 behind the Iron Curtain. With all that the House Un-American Activities Committee bans him from being the Eagle. By the next day every newspaper calls him the Red Menace. Even his daughter thinks it is true, after seeing old Nazis working for the FBI. Later, a young man named Tommy Woods, a big fan of the Eagle, becomes a superhero with telekinetic powers called the "Grey Falcon".
[edit] Collection
The limited series has been collected into a trade paperback:
- Red Menace (144 pages, October 2007, ISBN 9781401213831)[1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- 9 page preview, Comic Book Resources, November 21, 2006
- SDCC '06: LOOKS AT BLACKLISTS & RED MENACES, Newsarama
- REFLECTIONS: Talking with "Flash" and "Red Menace's" Bilson & DeMeo, Comic Book Resources, October 29, 2006
