"The Investigators"
- Crimson Avenger
- Doctor Thirteen
- Roy Raymond TV Detective
- & leading the team...
The Question
Crimson Avenger is the "bruiser,"
Doctor 13 is the "illusionist,"
Roy Raymond is the "mentalist,"
Vic gives the team its marching orders and gathers all the data to solve the mysteries.
The other three are always ribbing:
- Crimson Avenger for wanting to be seen as a "super hero."
- Roy Raymond for his cheesy tv show & his concerns with ratings.
- No one ribs Dr. 13.
- Vic for being, well, Vic.
- Roy & Vic will often slip into using TV terminology with each other.
- Doctor 13 really hates old Scooby Doo cartoons.
- Crimson Avenger tells people he was the "first superhero," but no one believes him.
- The whole series is set in the late 1960s - mid 1970s.
- Dr. 13 off & on flirts with being a hippie, as drug culture fascinates him, but he does not use. The others see this as crazy.
- Roy Raymond is just a bit money-hungry.
- Crimson Avenger takes odd contracts from the CIA.
Decades later in continuity (remember that?), DC will of course try the "girl team version" with new Crimson Avenger, Traci Thirteen, new character Ramona Raymond, and Renee Montoya Question*.
It will have a small but rabid following for awhile.
The "Investigirls" (as fans call them) began strong, but it became clear DC saw them as undercutting the momentum Birds of Prey was building. The series goes bi-monthly, then quarterly, then is cancelled.
Will the original "The Investigators" return?
It's a great... question!
Hmmmm... Maybe someone should go ahead and write this series... Or something a LOT LIKE IT.
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