History ComicBook / NightRaven

** When she appeared in the 2011 Wolverine mini-series ''The Best There Is'', Yi Yang's face is shown to have somehow healed completely.

The move to text also led to a shift in tone, from action-filled short adventures to longer character pieces and mystery tales. Later text stories also confirmed that ''Night Raven'' took place in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse and added a few more fantastic elements. In stories written by Creator/AlanMoore, Night Raven found himself facing a superhuman opponent, the immortal Yi Yang, who poisoned him and then, for her own amusement, granted him immortality of his own.

* BadassLongcoat: Night Raven wears a trench coat in most of his appearances. By modern times it's a ragged, stained coat.

Disfigured and wracked with pain, he became a darker figure, and the stories moved forward into the 1970s, following his ongoing feud with Yi Yang.

Like many other Marvel UK stories, ''Night Raven'' was printed in a range of AnthologyComic titles rather than jn a comic of its own. Unlike most of the other stories, it wasn't purely a comic strip - text stories were seen as a very cheap way to add content to the comics, so ''Night Raven'' was later published that way as well, usually with just a couple of illustrations accompanying each chapter.

* GunsAkimbo: Night Raven is armed with a pair of Colt revolvers worn in shoulder holsters.

* MeaningfulName: The dead or fallen supporting cast of ''House of Cards'' end like a poker royal flush: a criminal congressman nicknamed "the Ace", a gang boss named Koenig (German for "king"), a woman named Queenie, and a gangster named Jack. A slimeball who's been playing rat for a rival gang ends up shot ten times, with the bullet holes in the pattern of the ten card on his dead torso.

* MeaningfulName: The fallen supporting cast of ''House of Cards'' all end as a poker full house: a criminal congressman nicknamed "the Ace", a gang boss named Koenig (German for "king"), a woman named Queenie, and a gangster named Jack. A slimeball who's been playing rat for a rival gangster ends up shot ten times, with the bullet holes in the pattern of the ten card.

* TheFaceless: Night Raven's face is never seen in the Marvel UK stories. It’s suggested that he's horribly scarred in later years, after Yi Yang's poison has taken its toll. Eventually averted in ''Death Duty'', where his face is shown.

* DragonLady: Yi Yang plays this straight in her first appearance. It's a little more complicated in later stories.

The move to text also led to a shift in tone, from action-filled one-off adventures to longer serialised tales. Later text stories also confirmed that ''Night Raven'' took place in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse and added a few more fantastic elements. In stories written by Creator/AlanMoore, Night Raven found himself facing a superhuman opponent, the immortal Yi Yang, who poisoned him and then, for her own amusement, granted him immortality of his own.

The move to text also led to a shift in tone, from action-filled one-off adventures to longer serialised tales. Later text stories also confirmed that ''Night Raven'' took place in the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse and added a few more fantastic elements. In stories written by Creator/AlanMoore, Night Raven found himself facing a superhuman opponent, the immortal YI Yang, who poisoned him and then, for her own amusement, granted him immortality of his own.