The X-Men (vol. 1) #44 (May 1968):
“Red Raven, Red Raven...!”
by Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich, Don Heck, Werner Roth, etc.

The X-Men (vol. 1) #44

Title: “Red Raven, Red Raven...!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1968

Publisher:
Written by: Roy Thomas, Gary Friedrich
Art by: Don Heck, Werner Roth, John Tartaglione

Number of Pages: 15

22 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Cyclops (Scott Summers)	Protestant; mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Summers Rebellion...  The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		8,371
The Beast (Hank McCoy)	Episcopalian; agnostic	Academy of Tomorrow; Brotherhood of Mutants...  The Avengers; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Men		5,233
Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)	Episcopalian	Metro College; The Twelve...  X-Factor; X-Men		1,905
Iceman (Bobby Drake)	Jewish Catholic	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Champions; The Defenders; The Twelve; X-Factor; X-Men		1,752
Angel (Warren Worthington III)	Episcopalian	Academy of Tomorrow; Horsemen of Apocalypse...  Renegades; Secret Defenders; St. Joe's Preparatory School; The Champions; The Defenders; X-Club; X-Factor; X-Force; X-Men; X-Saviours		1,741
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sorceress	A-Next; Brotherhood of Mutants...  Force Works; Lady Liberators; Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Ultimates		1,624
Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)	Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  The Ultimates; X-Factor		944
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)	mutant supremacist	Brotherhood of Mutants; Misfits...  The 198		310
Red Raven	Bird-People religion	Liberty Legion [normal human raised by Avians]		54
Avians (flashback)  Referred to as both "Avians" and "Bird-People"	Avian religion	[winged race of Inhumans among whom Red Raven was raised]		12
X-Men		[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		9,958
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants	mutant supremacist	[1st app: The X-Men (vol. 1) #4 (Mar. 1964)]		644
Aerivar XVIII (flashback)	Avian religion	[Red Raven's adoptive father]		4
Red Raven robot (details)  A comic published two years later (Sub-Mariner #26) retroactively established that the Red Raven appearing in this issue is actually a robot duplicate, and not the real Red Raven.	N.A.	[1st app: Sub-Mariner (vol. 1) #26 (June 1970)]		3
Red Raven's father (flashback cameo)		[died when plane crashed into Avians' floating city]		1
Red Raven's mother (flashback cameo)		[died when plane crashed into Avians' floating city]		1
Nick Fury (mentioned)  A storm forces Angel to land on an island. It has a hidden base. He wonders if it is HYDRA Island, where a HYDRA base was recently destroyed by SHIELD forces led by Nick Fury.	secular	black; S.H.I.E.L.D....  The Howling Commandos; The Ultimates		1,898
Professor X (Charles Xavier) (mentioned)  After escaping from Magneto, Angel thinks to himself that he must rescue the rest of the X-Men, for if they die at Magneto's hands then Professor Xavier's legacy will be lost.	religious	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  Illuminati; The Mutant Underground (founder); The Twelve; X-Men (founder)		4,999
S.H.I.E.L.D. (mentioned)  After escaping Magneto, a storm forces Angel to land on an island. It has a hidden base. He wonders if it is HYDRA Island, where a HYDRA base was recently destroyed by SHIELD.		[government agency; intelligence agency...]		1,188
HYDRA (mentioned)  After escaping Magneto, a storm forces Angel to land on an island. It has a hidden base. He wonders if it is HYDRA Island, where a HYDRA base was recently destroyed by SHIELD.	HYDRA	[largest worldwide subversive organization]		283
The Avengers (mentioned)  The X-Men are captured by Magneto. Angel manages to escape. Cyclops orders him to fly to the Avengers and ask for their help.		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100

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