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| 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 (Marvel Comics)|Red Raven]]  
| writers             = [[Joe Simon]], [[Martin A. Bursten]]
| artists             = [[Jack Kirby]], [[Dick Briefer]], [[Louis Cazeneuve]], Robert Louis Golden
| subcat              = 
| altcat              = 
| sort                = Red Raven Comics
}}
'''''Red Raven Comics''''' was a title of [[Timely Comics]] (the predecessor of [[Marvel Comics]]). Only a single issue was published, [[cover date|cover-dated]] August 1940.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It was replaced by the title ''[[Human Torch (android)|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.<ref name=GCD>{{cite web |url=http://www.comics.org/issue/951/ |title=Red Raven Comics #1 |work=Grand Comics Database |accessdate=April 7, 2014}}</ref>

After this issue, the title character, avian superman [[Red Raven (Marvel Comics)#Original Red Raven|Red Raven]], did not appear in print again until 1968. The first [[Human Top (Bruce Bravelle)|Human Top]] was also introduced in this issue, as was a character named Mercury, presented as the [[Mercury (mythology)|Roman god]] but later [[retcon]]ned to be [[Makkari (comics)|Makkari]], one of the [[Eternals (comics)|Eternals]]. Also introduced were Magar the Mystic, the all-seeing Eternal Brain, space adventurer Comet Pierce, and hapless policeman Officer O'Krime.<ref name=GCD/> None of these characters were continued in the ''Human Torch'' title.<ref name=Markstein>{{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}}</ref> The Human Top had one other appearance, in 1942 in ''Tough Kid Squad''.<ref name=ComicBookDB>{{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}}</ref>{{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.

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