At the outset, the Crimson Avenger was primarily a solo act with Wing acting in the background.  As was the fashion of the time, The Avenger eventually abandoned the dark shadowy costume for a more colorful uniform of of red and gold with a black emblem emblazoned on his chest (Detective #44), initially with a short red cape that was eventually abandoned permanently (Detective Comics #58).  As the United States entered World War II, Wing also got into the act, developing a costume of his own (Detective Comics #59, Leading Comics #1).  The Crimson Avenger and Wing also attended the first large-scale meeting of the All-Star Squadron (All-Star Squadron #31).

In early 1942, The Crimson Avenger and Wing joined the Law's Legionnaires (later the Seven Soldiers of Victory) in a fateful case in which the criminal mastermind known as the Hand assembled a variety of criminals, including the Dummy who became a recurrent foe of the Vigilante and the Seven Soldiers, in attempt to start a crime wave across the nation.  The heroes manage to best their adversaries and the Hand, believing the leader of the criminals was crushed beneath his equipment (Leading Comics #1).  Adventures with the Seven Soldiers brought the Avenger and Wing into some of their most bizarre encounters including the Sense-Master and his pursuit of the Lifestone (Leading Comics #4), The Wizards of Stanovia (Leading Comics #7) and the elfish Willy Wisher who sends them to an other-dimensional land of Magic (Adventure Comics #438-443).

At some point between 1945 and the early 1950's, the Seven Soldiers encounter a mysterious case the led them deep into the Himalayas to battle an ethereal Nebula Man.  Devising a weapon to defeat him, the Soldiers overwhelmed their foe but as Wing sacrificed himself to deploy it, the remaining soldiers were through into history via a temporal maelstrom that wiped even the memory of their existence for the minds of the general population.  The Crimson Avenger lost his own identity and appeared in Central America in the age of the Aztecs.  Embued with a tiny fragment of the Nebula Man but no memories, the Avenger adopted the identity of an Aztec god and ruled a city with energy powers derived from the fragment.  In the 1970's, the appearance of a similar Nebular hand that threatens to crush Earth-Two has led the Justice League and Justice Society to pursue the Soldiers across time.  The arrival of the Earth-One Atom, Dr. Fate and the Elongated Man confounded the Avenger who attacks and subdues them.  Realizing their dilemma, the time-traveling heroes managed to escape and surprise the Avenger, allowing Dr. Fate to remove his powers and restore his memories.  The quarter is then pulled back to modern times by the enigmatic Oracle.  There the Hand - now the Iron Hand - is exposed as the agent behind the nebular creation and when the soldiers are fully assembled assembled, they recreate the weapon  that destroyed the Nebula Man to use on the etheral hand.  Revealing that the proximity required to activate it may be fatal, the heroes argue over how best to do it when the Red Tornado quietly absconds with it and deploys it, apparently destroying himself in the process (Justice League of America #100-102).

Afterwards, the Seven Soldiers re-entered their normal lives and Travis discovered that his accounts, undisturbed for years, had grown enormously and left him immensely wealthy.  Abandoning the adventurer's life, Travis traveled the world for years before learning while in Malaysia that he had developed a disease, one that defied definition but were unambiguously terminal.  Regretting that he would be remembered for nothing but his fortune as a business man, he ruminated on his fate in his hospital room.   Seeing a ship in distress, he resolved to have one more adventure as the Crimson Avenger in the week he had left.   Slipping out the window of his hospital, he found his old costume and went into action as the Crimson Avenger one last time.  En route, he saves a Hispanic boy that ahd fallen from the window, telling him name only as El Vengedore Rojo,  Arriving at the ship, he found the crew taken hostage by criminals.  Defeating them started a fire and as the ship carried large amount of explosive chemicals, its explosion in the port would be catastrophic.  Accepting a suicide mission, the Avenger allowed the crew and defeated crooks off the ship and accelerated out into the harbor, exploding with only one casualty - The Crimson Avenger.  The crew could not name their savior and the role of the Avenger was thought lost until the little boy he had saved told his story one day and his legend was finally preserved (DC Comics Presents #38).  When his former team-mates discovered his demise, a funeral was held two years later (Infinity Inc #11).