SOS Hawkman...( part 1)

[iskander]

Poor Hawkman. Few character have been through the ringer like he has. Carter hall/Katar Hol has been crushed by crossovers, bad retcons and just really,really bad editorial desicions.

This is his big return. After the "hawk-god avatar" version bottomed out in the summer 1996 and the series ended witha merged Katar Hol, struggling with the spirits of the other Hawk Avatars, being banished to the realm of the Hawk God or some such mystical nonsense. The upshot was, both Hawkmen were gone, and it didn't look like they were coming back anytime soon.

In fact, DC editorial was of the opinion that the character had been revised and redone and rethought so much that he had become incomprehensible, and declared the character radioactive,forbidding his use as a guest-star or any attempts to revive him for several years. Around this time came the absolute low point for poor Hawkman: when Warner Brothers licensed him out for a humiliating Baby Ruth candy-bar commercial, which showed Katar flying into windows like a parakeet until he got the necessary burst of energy from a delicious Baby Ruth.

Now Five years later Hawkman returns to the JSA.

Comments

[iskander]

How did they get in the Zamaron battery ?

[pyrotwilight]

A group of Star Sapphires took their bodies from earth as a source of power since they're legendary lovers fated to die over and over etc...

[iskander]

When was this ? Hmm, you might have thought Carter would have had them in safekeeping if something ???? JOHNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pyrotwilight]

Hmm, couldn't say exactly without looking through my issues. Pretty sure in 45 or 46 of in Green Lantern. 45 showed them being taken to Zamaron and put into the battery and then I think in Blackest Night or the following GL issue they (Khufu and Chayara) were turned into Black Lanterns.

[iskander]

Look, I just want a nice stable ,consistent Hawkman back...(pounds head into desk several times in frustration)

[jlroberson]

I have no idea. It was news to me. But there they were.