| Red Menace |
| Publisher |
Wildstorm |
| Schedule |
Monthly |
| Format |
Mini-series |
| Publication dates |
January 2007 - |
| Number of issues |
Six |
| Main character(s) |
Steve Temaine
Tommy Woods |
|
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.
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".
Collection
The limited series has been collected into a trade paperback:
References
External links
Reviews
- Three, different reviews at Silver Bullet Comic Books
- Two reviews, Silver Bullet Comic Books
- Review, Silver Bullet Comic Books
- Review, Silver Bullet Comic Books
- Review, Silver Bullet Comic Books
- Review, Silver Bullet Comic Books
