Appearing in "The Raven Strikes!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Nora Trask (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Raven (Thorn Trask) (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Nightwind
- Apaches (Mentioned)
- Red Rock Township Sheriff
- Numerous unnamed residents of Rock Rock Township
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- Red Rock Township (First appearance)
- United States of America
- Earth
Synopsis for "The Raven Strikes!"
Rawhide Kid is robbed by the Raven before being picked up by the sheriff of Red Rock Township. Imprisoned in the town jail Rawhide Kid makes a deal with the sheriff to catch the Raven in exchange for his freedom. The sheriff agrees and cuts him loose, believing that the Kid will keep his word.
While in town the Kid meets Nora Trask and is instantly smitten by her, but her brother Thorn is against their mingling and started fighting with the Kid. When that didn't get his sister to back off the Kid, he turned to the town to imply that the Kid and the Raven could be the same person and that he should be arrested potentially solving both their problems. Many of the townspeople agree and attempt to catch the Kid but he flees on Nightwind and makes his escape.
While camping the Raven ambushes the Kid and takes him to an abandoned mine where he intends to kill him. The Kid makes a move and the two fight resulting in part of the mine collapsing on the Raven who is killed. Removing his mask reveals the identity to be Thorn. The sheriff nearby finds the two, and the Kid convinces him to tell Nora and the town that he was the Raven and that her brother was a hero who died fighting him. This was all done to save Nora's feelings for her brother.