Having just recently taken a glimpse at the original Red Raven, it's almost regrettable that we must follow up with the character by witnessing the finish of his all-too-brief career in a Sub-Mariner story which took place in mid-1970. Written by Roy Thomas, who brought the character forward from comics' Golden Age and returned him to action in an issue of X-Men (which in hindsight isn't surprising, given the writer's fondness for revisiting 1940s characters), the Raven and his people meet a tragic end, leaving their story to be picked up here and there in other books by other writers (the introduction of the Bi-Beast perhaps being the most prominent example).
In his earlier encounter with the Angel, the Red Raven was presented as a sympathetic character, having been forced to betray his adoptive avian race in order to prevent them from attempting to conquer humanity. Now, however, Thomas switches gears and paints the Raven a different way, when his discovery at sea theatens to unleash the very war that the Raven once swore to prevent.
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