The Crimson

A mysterious presence haunting the edges of DC's mid-1980s revival of Golden Age lore, The Crimson surfaced in 1986's Secret Origins #5 — a landmark issue brought to life by the legendary team of Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Gene Colan. With only a handful of catalog appearances spread across Secret Origins and the Crimson Avenger series, this is a rare, quietly compelling figure whose brief existence places them squarely in the company of Golden Age icons like Lee Travis and the Crimson Avenger himself. For collectors who love the Copper Age's passionate excavation of DC's heroic past, The Crimson is exactly the kind of atmospheric, blink-and-you'll-miss-it discovery that makes digging through back issues so rewarding.