The RED RAVEN

The first Marvel hero to get his own title has recently returned to the Marvel Universe after years of obscurity and limbo... and here is everything you wanted to know about him but were afraid to ask!

Fittingly, the Red Raven first appeared in Red Raven Comics #1 in August 1940. The series would be renamed Human Torch Comics with the #2 issue

Red Raven Comics #1 also included The Human Top (since retconned into an entirely different character in the Invaders series), Comet Pierce (Kirby's one-shot space hero), Officer O'Krime (a comedy character from various Timely comics), Magar the Mystic (one of Timely's many magicians), The Eternal Brain (later shown in an altered form in The Lost Generation/Front Line), and a story called The Death Switch (a text piece).

click the image for the Reader's Digest version

The true creator of the Red Raven has been lost to the mists of time, many suspect that he may even have come from the mind of Jack Kirby himself, not beyond the realm of possibility, considering the similarities between the bird-men and other utopian civilizations Jack created. It could also have been Jack's collaborator of the time Joe Simon. Or both. Or neither.

Recently updated: A new page was added to keep track of were Timely heroes are now.

HISTORY

Pre-History: The Origin of the Bird People
Golden Age: The Origin of the Red Raven
Silver Age: Insane Androids
Bronze Age: Mad Scientists
Modern Age: The Return of the Red Raven

INFORMATION

The Bird-People
Aerie, the Sky-Isle
Red Raven
Red Raven Uniforms
Dania
Bi-Beast
Condor
Bloodraven Cult
Wayfinder

OTHER HEROES

Zephyr Jones and the Birdmen of Sunev

Other Timely heroes, and where they are now.

Click the image to the left for the never-published cover of Nova Vol. 3 #8, which would have included an all-out battle between the Red Raven, the Bird People, and Nova the Human Rocket. This amazing cover brought to you by the pencils of Erik Larsen and the inks of Jerry Ordway!

Make sure and check out Jess Nevin's A Guide to Marvel's Golden Age Characters for more great Timely Comics info!
And make sure and check out The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe for more great obscure Marvel info!

If you want to talk with other fans about the Red Raven and his Golden Age contemporaries, make sure and check out The Golden Age Marvel Squad Message Board!

Other Red Raven resources:

The Red Raven (Jess Nevins)
Did You Know... ? The Short Run of the Red Raven
Marvel Directory: Red Raven
The Red Raven: Justice on a Wing
Fury in the Sky: The Red Raven (from the Invaders site)

Odd Red Raven resources:

The Old West Red Raven
The Old West Raven
Deadpool #0 (with Red Raven's short-lived clone)
Bloodraven of Eurth

The Red Raven, Condor, Bi-Beast and all related characters are properties of Marvel Comics. Their use in this site is merely an attempt to share knowledge of the characters and to promote the comics themselves.

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