Red Menace (comics)

Red Menace (comics)

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schedule = Monthly
format = Mini-series
publisher = Wildstorm
date = January 2007 -
issues = Six
main_char_team = Steve Temaine
Tommy Woods
writers = Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo and Adam Brody
artists =
pencillers = Jerry Ordway
inkers = Al Vey
colorists = Jonny Rench
creative_team_month =
creative_team_year =
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"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:

*"Red Menace" (144 pages, October 2007, ISBN 9781401213831) [ [http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=8033 Wildstorm ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8974 9 page preview] , Comic Book Resources, November 21, 2006
* [http://www.newsarama.com/SDCC06/DC/Wildstorm/redmenace.html SDCC '06: LOOKS AT BLACKLISTS & RED MENACES] , Newsarama
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8756 REFLECTIONS: Talking with "Flash" and "Red Menace's" Bilson & DeMeo] , Comic Book Resources, October 29, 2006

Reviews

# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/11656134335841.htm Three] , [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/11646765467219.htm different] [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/116449093479622.htm reviews] at Comics Bulletin
# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/116710240566307.htm Two] [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/116690310949562.htm reviews] , Comics Bulletin
# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/116935724297979.htm Review] , Comics Bulletin
# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/117237756354228.htm Review] , Comics Bulletin
# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/117476424980176.htm Review] , Comics Bulletin
# [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/reviews/117782055081144.htm Review] , Comics Bulletin


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