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Cover: Gene Colan & Mike Gustovich
Secret Origins #5
“The Crimson Avenger”
writer Roy Thomas · writer Dann Thomas · artist Gene Colan · inker Mike Gustovich · colorist Carl Gafford · letterer David Cody Weiss · cover Gene Colan, Mike Gustovich
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writer Roy Thomas
writer Dann Thomas
artist Gene Colan
inker Mike Gustovich
colorist Carl Gafford
letterer David Cody Weiss
cover pencils Gene Colan
cover inks Mike Gustovich
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In 1938, Newspaper publisher Lee Travis attends a Halloween party and foils robbers who dressed as aliens to take advantage of civilian panic during the broadcast of the Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).