Winged Warriors of WWII

Hawkman (Golden age) - Red Raven

With some upcoming golden age-oriented pairings, we will see characters that have similar M.O.’s assigned to one another —unlike, notably, previous posts where the fast guys or winged guys are paired with characters with dissimilar abilities…

Such as this one, which finds the original conception of Hawkman, one of DC’s key wartime characters and the perpetual chairman of the Justice Society, paired with an obscure character that was published once in 1940 when Marvel was called Timely, and was revived in the 1960s and 1970s by Roy Thomas.

Commonalities:
Both are the winged warriors of World War II!

Differences:
The golden age Hawkman has been a mainstay of the DU for decades as the premiere member of the Justice Society. Whereas Red Raven was ret-conned to have been a member of the Liberty Legion, and was used as an antagonist in the 1960s and ‘70s for the Angel and Sub-Mariner. I read somewhere that RR had not died and became leader of the “bird-people” —which were also ret-conned to be a separatist sect of Inhumans— but references differ as to whether his survival has stuck.

Alternate histories:

HM: An european child is the only survivor of a catastrophe that claims his parents, and is raised by a reclusive cult in Northern Africa that preserves the customs of ancient Egyptian culture. Upon adulthood, he chooses to return to the wider world in order to combat the Axis Powers; using mystical and archaic equipment, he takes the name Hawkman. He eventually joins the Justice Society and opposes threats to America’s home front. Hawkman returns to the cult, whose population enters suspended animation; the cult has been revived, and Hawkman sporadically interacts with other superhumans.

RR: A young man discovers that he is both the descendent and a reincarnated king of a tribe of “bird-people.” He excavates equipment that enables him to operate as Red Raven; he initially opposes criminals and the Third Reich, and soon joins the Liberty Legion as its chairman. The Legion disbands in the 1950s, but reforms in recent years, often working with the Avengers. Red Raven’s aging has been retarded, and he currently serves as a mentor to younger superhumans in the Liberty Legion.