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Avenger
Avenger(s) or The Avenger(s) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Marvel Comics universe * Avengers (comics), a team of superheroes **Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a central team of protagonist superheroes of "The Infinity Saga" **Avengers (comics) in other media * ''The Avengers'' (comic book), several titles * '' The Avengers: United They Stand'', also known as ''The Avengers'', a 1999 animated TV series * '' The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'', a 2010 animated TV series * ''The Avengers'' (video game), planned for 2012 but unreleased * ''Marvel's Avengers'' (video game), 2020 ''The Avengers'' film series * ''The Avengers'' (2012 film), a 2012 American superhero film ** ''The Avengers'' (soundtrack) * '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'', a 2015 American superhero film * '' Avengers: Infinity War'', a 2018 American superhero film * '' Avengers: Endgame'', a 2019 American superhero film * '' Avengers: Doomsday'', a forthcoming 2026 American superhero film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avenger (pulp-magazine Character)
The Avenger is a fictional character whose original adventures appeared between September 1939 and September 1942 in the pulp magazine ''The Avenger'', published by Street & Smith, which ran 24 issues. Five additional short stories were published in ''Clues Detective'' magazine (1942–1943), and a sixth Novella, novelette in ''The Shadow'' magazine in 1943. Decades later, newly written pastiches were commissioned and published by Time Warner, Warner Brothers' Paperback Library from 1973 to 1974. The Avenger was a pulp hero who combined elements of Doc Savage and The The Shadow, Shadow. The authorship of the pulp series was credited by Street & Smith to Kenneth Robeson, the same byline that appeared on the Doc Savage stories. Most of the original Avenger stories were actually written by Paul Ernst (American writer), Paul Ernst. The "Kenneth Robeson" name was a pen name#Collective names, house pseudonym used by a number of different Street & Smith writers. History In the late 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimson Avenger
The Crimson Avenger is the name of three separate superheroes and supervillains in the DC Comics Universe. The character debuted in 1938 and is notable as the first masked hero in DC Comics. The first Crimson Avenger, Lee Walter Travis, first appeared in ''Detective Comics'' #20 (October 1938). He is also known as a founding member of DC's second depicted superhero team, Seven Soldiers of Victory. Fictional character biography Lee Walter Travis The Crimson Avenger (along with his sidekick Wing) first appeared in the DC Comics anthology American comic book series ''Detective Comics'' in issue #20. The Crimson Avenger had many similarities to The Green Hornet, including a sidekick named Wing who was an Asian valet, and a gas gun that he used to subdue opponents. Albert Elwood Albert Elwood made a single appearance as the Crimson Avenger, in '' World's Finest Comics'' #131 (February 1963), in a story entitled "The Mystery of the Crimson Avenger". Eccentric inventor Albert Elwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avengers (1998 Film)
''The Avengers'' is a 1998 American satirical spy action comedy film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, an adaptation of the 1961–1969 British television series of the same name. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a mad scientist bent on controlling the world's weather. Patrick Macnee, Steed in the original series, makes a vocal cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones. The film underperformed at the box-office, only grossing $54.7 million against its $60 million budget and was met with negative reviews from critics. Plot Secret agent John Steed and meteorologist Dr. Emma Peel are summoned to The Ministry. They meet the spymaster, codenamed Mother, who informs them that the Prospero project — an attempt to influence the weather — was apparently sabotaged by Peel. Dr. Peel claims she is innocent, and she is sent to work alongside Steed to find the real culprit. Mother's second-in-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avenger (1962 Film)
''The Avenger'' () is a 1962 film directed by Giorgio Venturini. Plot summary Aeneas leads escaped survivors of the Trojan War to new land in Italy. Based on Virgil's '' The Aeneid''. Cast * Steve Reeves as Enea (Aeneas) * Carla Marlier as Lavinia, Latino's Daughter * Liana Orfei as Camilla, Queen of the Volsci * Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Eurialo (Euryalus) * Gianni Garko as Turno (Turnus), King of the Rusalie ( Rutuli) * Mario Ferrari as King Latino (Latinus) * Lulla Selli as Queen Amata, Latino's Wife * Maurice Poli as Mesenzio ( Mezentius), Turno's Henchman * Luciano Benetti as Sergesto ( Sergestus) * Pietro Capanna as Bisia * Enzo Fiermonte as Acate ( Achates) * Charles Band as Julio (Ascanius Ascanius (; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκάνιος) was a Kings of Alba Longa , legendary king of Alba Longa (traditional reign: 1176 BC to 1138 BC) and the son of the Troy, Trojan hero Aeneas and of Creusa of Troy, Creusa, daughter of Priam. He is a ...) * Benito Stefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avenger (1960 Film)
''The Avenger'' () is a 1960 West German crime film directed by Karl Anton and starring Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen and Ina Duscha. It is based on the 1926 novel '' The Avenger'' by Edgar Wallace. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi Herrmann. Plot A number of packaged disembodied heads have been found in random areas of the English countryside. In each package is a letter to the police from the killer, who dubs himself "The Executioner." The victims are seemingly unrelated to one another. When a Scotland Yard employee is killed, Detective Mike Brixan ( Heinz Drache) of Special Branch is called in to investigate. The only clue is that a black, four-door sedan was seen at the scene of the crime and that the typewriter used by the killer has two offset characters. While interviewing Ruth Sanders ( Ina Duscha), the niece of the man killed and the last person to see him alive, while working as an extra on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avengers (1950 Film)
''The Avengers'' is a 1950 American swashbuckler film and adventure film directed by John H. Auer and starring John Carroll, Fernando Lamas, and Adele Mara. The picture was shot on location in Argentina. Plot In 17th-century colonial Argentina, while trying to find his father's murderer, the adventurer Francisco Suarez is confronted with Colonel Luis Corral, who tries to usurp the Governor's seat. The Colonel is supposed to marry Maria Moreno, with whom Suarez falls in love. Cast * John Carroll as Francisco Suarez/Don Careless * Roberto Airaldi as Colonel Luis Corral * Adele Mara as Maria Moreno * Fernando Lamas as André LeBlanc * Cecile Lezard as Pamela * Mona Maris as Yvonne * Juan Olaguivel as Sancho * Vicente Padula as El Mocho/Hernandez * Jorge Villoldo as Don Rafael Moreno Production The film was shot on location in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avengers (1942 Film)
''The Day Will Dawn'', released in the USA as ''The Avengers'', is a 1942 British war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence Rattigan, based on a story by Frank Owen. The music by Richard Addinsell was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson. Plot Following the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, the former horse racing-correspondent Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later he meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailors' bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors (singing " Rule Britannia", egged on by Metcalfe) and German ones (singing the Nazi Party anthem the " Horst-Wessel-Lied"). Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norway's territorial waters, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avenger (1937 Film)
''The Avenger'' is a 1937 Australian film directed by A. R. Harwood. Plot A reformed thief marries a wealthy socialite but is haunted by a former accomplice who tries to frame him for murder. Cast *Douglas Stuart as Terry Druton *John Fernside as Max Hart *Karen Greyson as Della, the Maid *Marcia Melville as Gwen * Marshall Crosby as Detective Sergeant O'Neill *George Lloyd as Happy Evans * Raymond Longford as Warren * Pat Twohill as Solicitor Production The movie was produced by New Era Film Productions, a new production company that had been established in Melbourne by Morrell Wright and Cyril J. Turner. A. R. Harwood was director of production. Filming started in October 1937 and took place at Pagewood Studios in Sydney, while some exterior filming took place at Parramatta. Release The movie was ready for trade preview by 17 December 1937 and was distributed in Australia by Atlas Films. It only achieved limited release. However the film was sold to Columbia for releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avenger (1933 Film)
''The Avenger'' is a 1933 American drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Ralph Forbes, Adrienne Ames and Arthur Vinton.Monaco p.256 Plot A former district attorney seeks vengeance against the gang who framed him leading to his disgrace. Cast * Ralph Forbes as Norman Craig * Adrienne Ames Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex. Early years Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh Mc ... as Ruth Knowles * Arthur Vinton as James Gordon * Claude Gillingwater as Witt * Charlotte Merriam as Sally * J. Carrol Naish as Hanley * Berton Churchill as Forster * Murray Kinnell as Cormack * Thomas E. Jackson as McCall * Paul Fix as Vickers * Leonard Carey as Talbot * James Donlan as Durant * Boothe Howard as Ames References Bibliography * Monaco, James. ''The Encyclopedia of Film''. Perigee Books, 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avenger (1931 Film)
''The Avenger'' is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Buck Jones and Dorothy Revier. The film is loosely based on the exploits of legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta, who, in the mid-19th century, went to California and, according to the legend, swore vengeance against Americans and began of a series of robberies in the mining country after being discriminated against by white men. The film was remade in 1942 as '' Vengeance of the West'', directed by Lambert Hillyer Lambert Hillyer (July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known today for his many western features, his horror films ''The Invisible Ray (1936 film), The Invisible Ray'' and ''Dracula's Daugh ... and starring Bill Elliott and Tex Ritter. Plot In 1849, Joaquin Murietta is determined to track down the three men, Black Kelly, Ike Mason, and Al Goss, who lynched his brother. As "The Black Shadow," he robs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Way Of The Tiger
''The Way of the Tiger'' is a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, originally published by Knight Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) from 1985. They are set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young monk/ninja, named Avenger, initially on a quest to avenge his foster father's murder and recover stolen scrolls. Later books presented other challenges for Avenger to overcome, most notably taking over and ruling a city. The world of Orb was originally created by Mark Smith for a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' game he ran while a pupil at Brighton College in the mid-1970s. Orb was also used as the setting for the 1984 Fighting Fantasy gamebook '' Talisman of Death'', and one of the settings in the 1985 Falcon gamebook ''Lost in Time'', both by Smith and Thomson. The sixth book, ''Inferno!'', ends on a cliffhanger with Avenger trapped in the web of the Black Widow, Orb's darkest blight. As no new books were released, the fate of Aven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinels Of Justice
Sentinels of Justice is a fictional organization of superheroes. The comic was published by Americomics (a.k.a. AC Comics) in 1983 during a very brief time that AC was able to license the Charlton Comics superheroes before the rights were purchased outright by DC Comics. The team consisted of Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, the Question and Nightshade. This line-up's first appearance was in ''Americomics Special'' #1 (August 1983). A revised team made up of existing Americomics characters Captain Paragon, Nightveil, Stardust, Commando D, and Scarlet Scorpion would appear in ''Captain Paragon and the Sentinels of Justice'' #1–3 (1985–86), the title would change to ''Sentinels of Justice'' with #4 (the indicia would still state ''Captain Paragon and the Sentinels of Justice''), it would last until issue #6 (1986). Fictional team history AC Comics editor and head writer Bill Black had been making plans for a superhero team to be named the Sentinels of Justice when he was contacte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |