Crimson Commando (comics)

Crimson Commando
Uncanny X-Men #215 (March 1987), the first appearance of the Crimson Commando (lower middle). Art by Alan Davis and Dan Green.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Uncanny X-Men #215 (March 1987)
Created by	Chris Claremont Alan Davis
In-story information
Alter ego	Frank Bohannan
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	Bohannan: Freedom Force Project: Wideawake Female: Brotherhood of Mutants
Notable aliases	Cyborg X, Commando
Abilities	Non-superhuman physical perfection (peak state possible for baseline humans) Cyborg implants

Crimson Commando (Frank Bohannan) is a fictional character, a mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

He first appears in Uncanny X-Men #215 and was created by Chris Claremont and Alan Davis.

Frank Bohannan was born somewhere in Massachusetts. As the Crimson Commando, he was one of a trio of World War II veteran super-heroes recruited to be a member of Freedom Force, the original government-sponsored mutant team. Earlier, along with his partners, Stonewall and Super Sabre, Bohannan had become a vigilante who captured criminals, released them and hunted them in Adirondack State Park in upstate New York. The trio killed the criminals, both to reduce the criminal element in society and for the enjoyment of hunting them.

The trio captured Pamela Morrison, a drug dealer, and mistaking Storm (the leader of the X-Men) for a criminal, the trio hunted and captured her as well. The women were set out for the vigilantes to hunt both to their deaths. The Crimson Commando killed Morrison, but Wolverine arrived to help Storm. When Storm and Wolverine eventually defeated the trio, Stonewall and Crimson Commando agreed to turn themselves in to law enforcement authorities and confess their vigilantism. Stonewall, Crimson Commando, and Super Sabre (who had been presumed dead) agreed to join Freedom Force, a U.S. government sponsored team of superhumans, in exchange for a commutation of their sentences.

On his first mission with Freedom Force, he fought the X-Men in Dallas, and battled cavemen transported to Dallas by time-waves created by the Adversary. He watched a telecast of the X-Men's deaths in order to defeat the Adversary, and then witnessed the return of Forge to Dallas without the X-Men. While still in Dallas, Freedom Force also contended against the New Mutants.