The Masked Avenger

The Masked Avenger by Tom Johnson. Only three novellas were written, and original published in WEIRD STORIES and DOUBLE DANGER TALES, then in ALTUS PRESS’ TRIPLE DETECTIVE series www.altuspress.com  and now on Kindle for $0.99 each: see my Amazon page at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008MM81CM

After an episode of The Equalizer around 1987, where-in a young boy with AIDS and his grandmother were being harassed by a group of rednecks from a bar in the neighborhood, it made me think the pulps needed a masked hero to protect children back in the day. If you remember the segment, it was a Christmas episode, and the boy had a poster of a superhero hanging on his wall. He thought The Equalizer was the superhero and called him for help. Well, I decided right then I was going to create a pulp hero who would be a protector of children, while wiping out gangdom at the same time, thus was born The Masked Avenger.