Comic Title: Hawkman #17
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1966
On Sale Date: October 13, 1966 Newsstand Date October 13, 1966
Source: House Ad, Adventures of Bob Hope #102, Page 9

Newsstand Date October 13, 1966
Source: Direct Currents, Adventures of Bob Hope #102

Copyright Date October 13, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Ruse of the Robbing Raven"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Hawkman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Hawkman Vol. 2 TPB (2008)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Aquaman #30; next appearance in Hawkman #17)

Villain(s)

• The Raven (Joey Makk; no further appearances)
• The Raven's gang (Louie named; no further appearances)
• The Raven's trained ravens (Blackie named; no further appearances)
• "Bo" Kemp (an underworld fence; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Eddie Powe (a novelist and poet; no further appearances)
• Thornton Barringer (a literary expert; no further appearances)
• An unnamed social worker (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Joey Makk, resentful that his early crime career as trainer of a raven which stole for him had been halted when Eddie Powe beat him up and recovered the loot, had befriended Powe now, while planning to humiliate him publicly. Makk gives Powe a trained raven that can recite Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, but which also spies on Powe, and reports back to Makk everything it has heard all day.

Thus, Makk learns that Powe has found an unknown Edgar Allan Poe novel, and is keeping the authenticated manuscript in his library until the public announcement and donation to Midway City Museum is made, and so, as the Raven, he gathers his criminal gang and raids the library. Although Hawkman captures the gang, Raven escapes, his mission accomplished; he had switched a fake manuscript for the real one.

Eddie Powe is disgraced on TV when a literary authority recognizes the forgery, and he suspects Makk, since the trained raven is also missing. Hawkman tracks down and speaks with the bird, and then surprises the Raven when he tries to fence the book.

The manuscript is recovered, and Makk in jail, Powe is exonerated.