Raven Red











A villainess who appeared in 2 stories in the 1960s comic strip about the multi national heroine team  who fight crime and evil  spy rings,"Jet Dream and her Stunt-girl counterspies". She and her gang are the only female enemies who appear in the Jet Dream strips.The stories were "The Powder Puff Derby caper" (1967) and "Menace of the feathered warriors" (1968). The latter features Raven Red on her own, without any gang assissting her., though she uses deadly predatory birds against Jet! These stories are back up strips in issues 12 and 20 of the Gold Key "Man from UNCLE" comic book series.


 * Like heroine Jet Dream, Raven Red is an aviatrix and she first attacks Jet during the "Powder Puff Derby" air race. This was a real event for female pilots which took place for many years, going from Honolulu to San Franciso. Raven is able to ambush Jet with impunity, as Jet has dismantled her guns to lighten her plane for the race.

In "The Powder Puff Derby caper" Raven  has been paid by enemy agents to assassinate Jet Dream.. Raven Red has a secret hq based on a small island in the south pacific,  She keeps her 2 aircraft there and has an ammo dump which includes grenades. It's on this island Jet has to fight a single combat against Raven Red and her hench-girls who are out to murder her.

In the second story "Menace of the feathered warriors", Raven has escaped from jail and is once again out to kill Jet, though pure vengeance may now be her motivation. In the second story, Raven has somehow managed to find the Stunt-girl counterspies "top secret" headquarters.

Raven Red and her gun-girls are defeated  by Jet in the first story and the Stuntgirls take the captured Raven and  her gang to the police. Jet also captures Raven solo in the second appeaance by the villainess.