AC Comics The American Crusader, along with other heroes from
Nedor Comics, was revived by
AC Comics through the Vault of Heroes, a suspended animation program for superheroes. He later joined the
Sentinels of Justice.
America's Best Comics Several heroes from
Nedor Comics were revived by
Alan Moore in his
America's Best Comics continuity, starting with
Tom Strong #11. The next issue, #12, revealed the American Crusader was among these heroes. In the canon of America's Best Comics, the American Crusader and his comrades were all part of a team called
SMASH. On Tom Strong's world, they were believed to be comic book characters, but in fact they were real people who inhabited another version of Earth occupying another area of the same universe. Tom Strong referred to this other Earth as "
Terra Obscura". The American Crusader and other SMASH heroes then went on to star in
Terra Obscura vol. 1 and
Terra Obscura vol. 2. In this canon, the Crusader operates as a powerful superhero while also dealing with alcoholism. He works alongside the other heroes of SMASH for many years until 1969, when he and his comrades are imprisoned by an alien device that capture them in localized time-loops. The only member of SMASH who isn't imprisoned is "Doc"
Tom Strange, his world's version of Tom Strong. Doc Strange journeys to Tom Strong's Earth to recruit his help while his SMASH comrades remain frozen in time. In the year 2000, Tom Strong and Tom Strange finally free the American Crusader and other heroes from the time-loops. Having not aged since 1969, the members of SMASH resume their heroic activities, including the Crusader who now seeks help in managing his alcoholism.
Living Legends and Tales of the Living Legends The American Crusader made a brief appearance in the prose story
Living Legends, published by Metahuman Press. A flashback comic story featuring rescripted pages over the comic work has also been published as part of the
Tales of the Living Legends webcomic.
Project Superpowers The American Crusader appears in the mini-series
Project Superpowers, by
Alex Ross and
Jim Krueger. He is kept imprisoned and unconscious by a totalitarian government, and clones called Crusaders are created from his DNA to function as super-powered soldiers. In the related
Black Terror series, the Black Terror finds Archie and helps him to lure the Crusaders and destroy them, using the last of Archie's energy in the process. The Crusaders all die, and an African-American soldier named Marcus Chamberlain, who was with Archie and the Terror at the last moment, gains the power and becomes the new American Crusader. In the spin-off
Project Superpowers: Fractured States, the original American Crusader is resurrected alongside other heroes lost in the void.
Heroes Inc. Archibald Masters, the American Crusader, appears as a center character in the ongoing webcomic
Heroes Inc., created in 2009 by Scott E. Austin. The webcomic takes place in an alternate reality where the allies of
World War II lost the war. In present day, the American Crusader gathers DNA from Golden Age heroes in order to create a new generation of heroes.
DC Comics A version of the character was used in the
Multiversity series, where he was the leader of a superteam on a parallel Earth, called the Retaliators (a reference to Captain America and his
Avengers). A second version of the character is killed at the beginning of the story to raise the stakes, and the character is shown on the cover of a comic read by a character during the story. ==Powers and abilities==