Red Raven Comics
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{{Infobox comic book title
| image = Red_Raven_Comics_Issue_1.jpg
| caption = First and last issue of Red Raven Comics
| schedule = Monthly
| ongoing = Y
| 1shot = Y
| genre = Superhero
| publisher = Timely Publications
| date = August 1940
| issues = 1
| main_char_team = Red Raven
| writers = Joe Simon, Martin A. Bursten
| artists = Jack Kirby, Dick Briefer, Louis Cazeneuve, Robert Louis Golden
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| sort = Red Raven Comics
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Red Raven Comics was a title of Timely Comics (the predecessor of Marvel Comics). Only a single issue was published, cover-dated August 1940.{{cite book |last1=Benton |first1=Mike |title=Superhero Comics of the Golden Age: The Illustrated History |date=1992 |publisher=Taylor Publishing Company |location=Dallas |isbn=0-87833-808-X |url=https://archive.org/details/superherocomicso0000bent/page/178 |accessdate=1 April 2020 |page=179}} It was replaced by the title The Human Torch, which began with issue #2 (Fall 1940), continuing the numbering inherited from Red Raven Comics. According to the Grand Comics Database, Red Raven Comics issue #1 contained no advertisements for issue #2 (instead, other titles were advertised), suggesting that the decision to cancel the title may have been made before the first issue went to press.{{cite web |url=http://www.comics.org/issue/951/ |title=Red Raven Comics #1 |work=Grand Comics Database |accessdate=April 7, 2014}}
After this issue, the title character, avian superman Red Raven, did not appear in print again until 1968. The first Human Top was also introduced in this issue, as was a character named Mercury, presented as the Roman god but later retconned to be Makkari, one of the Eternals. Also introduced were Magar the Mystic, the all-seeing Eternal Brain, space adventurer Comet Pierce, and hapless policeman Officer O'Krime. None of these characters were continued in the Human Torch title.{{cite web |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/redraven.htm |title=The Red Raven |author=Don Markstein |work=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |accessdate=April 11, 2014}} The Human Top had one other appearance, in 1942 in Tough Kid Squad.{{cite web |url=http://www.comicbookdb.com/character.php?ID=8843 |title=Human Top (01 - Bravelle) |work=The Comic Book Database |accessdate=May 26, 2014}}{{Better source needed|reason=is a wiki|date=May 2014}}
Red Raven Comics #1 figured in the documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, part of which follows comic-book vendor Chuck Rozanski's futile quest to sell a copy for $500,000.