Here's my "The Avenger" Fancast! He is more obscure than Doc
Savage even!
He was stated to be written by Kenneth Robeson, the writer
of Doc Savage, but was actually written by another author
under the Kenneth Robeson pen-name, Paul Ernst. Kenneth
Robeson was one of the house pen-names of Street & Smith
publishers, publishers of The Shadow and Doc Savage pulp mags.
The Avenger was a pulp hero a little like Doc Savage but he
was an average height, although he was extremely powerful
from training similar to Doc's. Criminals killed his wife and
daughter and the stress turned his hair white and his skin
a shade of gray. And his face was like putty he could
manipulate it into the shape of someone he was trying to
impersonate, he carried an actors make-up kit to finish
the disguise.
He killed a guy out of anger once when he was a young man
adventuring around the world and amassing his fortune so he
was sworn to never take another life by his hand. He always
set up the criminal he was after to set his own stage for
his demise. Sort of like Doc Savage in that way too.
He carried a throwing knife and a small handgun of his own
design that he would shoot at bad guys he was fighting and
knock them out by just creasing the top of their heads. He
nicknamed his weapons Ike & Mike.
He also like Savage had a motley crew of sidekicks.
Nellie Gray who was a young pretty little china doll platinum
blond woman trained in martial arts, Smitty, a 6'9" giant with
immense strength, Mac, a dour Scott pharmacist/chemist who
had had his family also killed by criminals and
Josh & Rosabel Newton, a highly educated African American
couple.
There was a young man who joined them when Richard Benson
was electrocuted and his white hair turned back to black and
his skin back to flesh color. His name was Cole and he was a
younger version of Benson. I didn't add him here because he
didn't come in till way later.
DC did a comic in the 70's illustrated by Jack Kirby that ran
for 4 issues. They also did a comic series in the 80's.
THE AVENGER, (RICHARD HENRY BENSON)
BEN FOSTER AS THE AVENGER
NELLIE GRAY, 5’4”, young blond china-doll beauty who is proficient in Jujitsu.
Beautiful, delicate-looking young woman who is actually an expert at jujitsu
and other martial arts. Her archaeologist father was killed by criminals for an
Aztec treasure he had found.
KRISTEN BELL as NELLIE GRAY
SMITTY (ALGERNON HEATHCOAT SMITH), 6’9”, 300lbs., immensely powerful, muscular, slow witted-looking yet genius electrical engineer.
DANIEL CUDMORE as SMITTY
MAC (FERGUS MacMURDIE), 6’2”, slim dour redheaded Scottsman. Gifted pharmacist and chemist. His family was killed by racketeers, leaving Mac embittered and vengeful.
DAMIEN LEWIS as MAC
JOSH & ROSABEL NEWTON, African American married couple who often go undercover disguised as servants but are extremely educated graduates of Tuskegee Institute.
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as JOSH & ZOE SALDANA as ROSABEL