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The Avenger by Dexter Wee (Mystery Sketch Fall 2025!)

Artist: Dexter Wee (All)

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The Avenger by Dexter Wee (Mystery Sketch Fall 2025!) Comic Art

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The Avenger pulps

Justice, Inc.: The Avenger #1 paperback, 1972

DC's Justice, Inc. #1, 1975

DC's First Wave Special, 2011

Dynamite's Justice, Inc. #1, 2014

Dynamite's Justice, Inc.: The Avenger #2, 2015

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Artwork Details

Title:	The Avenger by Dexter Wee (Mystery Sketch Fall 2025!)
Artist:	Dexter Wee (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Mystery Sketch
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	80
Likes on CAF:	9 10
Comments:	11
Added to Site:	12/25/2025
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Description

The action-packed watercolors radiate with Dexter Wee's enthusiasm for pulp heroes. Thank you Dexter! My thanks also to Next Comic Art's Jiggy Aquino for giving him my request.

The Avenger was created in 1939 for Street & Smith by writer Paul Ernst, with help from Lester Dent and Walter Gibson, creators respectively of Doc Savage and the Shadow. The Avenger, real name Richard Henry Benson, combines elements from these two pulp heroes as well as past characters created by Ernest such as Doc Savage's vast knowledge, the Shadow's piercing eyes, and the wielding of both a gun and knife by Ernst's the Wraith. Stories were written under the Street & Smith pseudonym Kenneth Robeson.

Benson is a wealthy global adventurer and engineer who declares war on crime after his wife and daughter disappear on his flight. The shock turns his hair white, makes his skin deathly pale, and paralyzes his face. The transformation gives him the ability to mold his face to impersonate anyone. Armed with a throwing dagger and .22 handgun, he gathers a group of associates to form Justice, Inc. to fight crime. The group was notable for its time for an African-American couple that uses people's stereotypical views to gather information as domestic workers.

Comics use the title Justice, Inc. for books resurrecting the character to avoid confusion and legal issues with Marvel's The Avengers comic. The Avenger has appeared in DC and Dynamite comics, albeit for short runs. His first DC appearance, Justice, Inc., lasted just four issues, appearing shortly before cancellation of The Shadow comic by Denny O'Neil and Michael Kaluta. Dynamite brought the pulp hero to its books in 2014 to join Doc Savage and the Shadow in the Justice, Inc. miniseries and alone in the subsequent Justice, Inc.: The Avenger.

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Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Great to see Dexter picking this and stretching his artistic range to bring this slam bang pulp hero to life!

Ruben DaCollector
Member Since 2008

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Hey, that's a pretty high level quality mystery sketch. Congrats, Peter, and Merry Christmas!

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Ruben DaCollector wrote:

Hey, that's a pretty high level quality mystery sketch. Congrats, Peter, and Merry Christmas!

Thanks, Rubén! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Derek Crabbe
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Dynamic Illustration!

Kavi H
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Awesome mystery sketch piece! Dexter went above and beyond. congrats on the great result and hope you're having a great holiday season Peter, merry christmas.

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Kavi H wrote:

Awesome mystery sketch piece! Dexter went above and beyond. congrats on the great result and hope you're having a great holiday season Peter, merry christmas.

Thanks, Kavi! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Miki Annamanthadoo
Member Since 2003

1 - Posted on 12/25/2025

Its not a mystery that you keep getting great sketches!

Peter Roe
Member Since 2009

Posted on 12/25/2025

Miki Annamanthadoo wrote:

Its not a mystery that you keep getting great sketches!

Thanks, Miki!

ilia georgiev
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 12/28/2025

Dexter has a feel for the pulp characters, but this Avenger is so dynamic. Stunning. Congrats!

Shannon Weathers
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 1/1/2026

Great Avenger image! I love his intense facial expression.

Inominável Ser
Member Since 2016

1 - Posted on 1/7/2026

I remembered Planetary now, in the great tributes made to Pulp in each chapter.

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