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, has 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 has switched a fake manuscript for the real one.