Red Menace is a 2007 six-issue American comic book limited series written by Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo and Adam Brody, illustrated by Jerry Ordway and Jonny Rench, and published by Wildstorm Productions.
The story is set 1953 Los Angeles at the time of Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee trials.
At one of the House of Un-American Activities Committee trials, a hero named "The Eagle" unmasks himself as World War II veteran Steve Tremaine.
The Committee uses his wartime friendship with Ivan "The Bear" Petrovich, a hero to the Soviet Union, to brand him a communist and bans him from being the Eagle.
Upon hearing the news, Tremaine is driven to a deep depression that leads him to heavy drinking for a period of more than three weeks.