Hawk

HAWK I

Real Name: Henry "Hank" Hall

Class: Lord of Order

Occupation: Superhero, student, formerly supervillain

Group Affiliation: Birds of Prey, formerly Titans West, New Titans West, Black Lantern Corps, White Lantern Corps

Known Relatives: Donald Hall (Dove I, brother, deceased), Irwin Hall (father), James Penfield (uncle), Rae Penfield Hall (mother)

Aliases: Monarch, Extant

Base of Operations: Georgetown, Washington, D.C., formerly Elmond

First Appearance: Showcase #75 (July, 1968)

Powers: By saying the word "Hawk" Hawk Hall was transformed into Hawk, with his mystic costume replacing whatever he was wearing. Hawk possessed claws, superhuman senses, strength, speed and durability. As Extant he could fire energy bolts, fly, and manipulate the timestream.

History: When the Hall brothers' father Judge Irwin was in peril a Voice spoke to them and granted them the power of Hawk (Hank Hall) and Dove (Don Hall) to save them. The Voice was T'Charr and Teratya, representatives of the Lords of Order and Chaos, doing an experiment to see if those forces could learn from one another.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #1) - Hank and Don were at a social event with Judge Hall when it was robbed by the Drop-Outs. Hank turned into Hawk, but Don stuck to his promise to never again become Dove. Hawk did well, but was outnumbered and received a beating. This event led Judge Hall to publicly denounce both the Drop-Outs and hawk, whose vigilantism he despised. Hawk kept looking for a rematch with the Drop-Outs and finally caught up with them. Don had no choice but to become Dove to save his brother's life, and together they took down the gang. Dove told his brother he'd only use his powers to save Hawk from criminals, and to save criminals from Hawk, who he thought was too rough on them.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #2) - Hank and Don accompanied their dad to work and saw him lay out a heavy sentence. Hank believed the justice system was about punishment, but Don saw it as a chance for rehabilitation. The Hall family went on vacation to their uncle Jim's farm, but cons led by Harker and Davis had just busted out of jail and terrorized the family. Hawk and Dove scattered the cons, and Hawk waylaid most of them with his fists. Dove confronted Harker, and told Hawk not to get involved, that he'd capture him without violence. Harker pounded Dove, but he managed to subdue Harker without hurting him by tying him up with his own belt and shirt.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #3) - Cat committed a series of cat burglaries and deftly avoided the police. Hawk confronted him at a job, and they battled but Cat escaped. Hank and Don went to the coffee shop, and both had their eye on the same girl, Linda. A thug harassed Linda, and Don didn't know what to do because he abhorred violence. Hank had no compunction about slugging the thug and forcing him to leave. Linda was far more impressed with hank, and told Don to stop being a wimpo. At another burglary the police had Cat trapped and were ready to fill the apartment he was in with tear gas, Dove misread the situation and feared the cops were going to shoot to kill, so he distracted them long enough for the Cat to flee. An officer on foot shot the Cat down, and Dove blamed himself for the Cat's death.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #3) - Linda's father Dr John Kieves was found beaten in an alley and Hawk and Dove wanted answers. Hawk recognized the attackers from their description in a newspaper report, tracked them down, and beat them until they told him Kieves owed money to gangland boss Karl Casimer. Linda suspected Casimer, and when her brother Mark found out he went to Casimer's house with a gun. Dove stopped him, not wanting to see him throw away his life, although Mark thought he was protecting the mobster. By the time Hawk arrived at Casimer's the police were there, and apprehended Casimer.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #4) - Don saw his artist friend Warren Savin gunned down and reported it to the police, while Hawk tried to stop the robbery of an art museum but was knocked out. He gave an anonymous call to the police, but the next day he read an article in the paper about the police getting his tip, investigating, and finding no signs of robbery. Hawk and Dove investigated the events and learned that mayoral candidate Frank Heinsite had the paintings stolen and replaced them with forgeries painted by Savin. Savin's conscience was getting to him, and when he was about to go to the police Heinsite had him killed. Hawk and Dove brought Heinsite and his goons to justice.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #5) - Judge Hall's old friend Sam Hodgins, who'd once saved his life, was accused of robbery, shooting a police officer and running over a boy in the getaway. While Hodgins was out on bond Hawk and Dove were determined to prove his innocence. They located Johnny Randall and Stan McGuire, the witnesses that identified Hodgins to the police, and found them planning to start a stolen car ring with hood Jack Malden. Hawk and Dove busted up the crooks, and Hawk tried to beat a confession out of Randall, but he swore that Hodgins was the man he saw. Unconvinced the heroes let him leave, but followed him. They lost sight of him when someone pulled a robbery and stole a getaway car. They followed the car, assuming it was Randall, and the chase led to a shipping dock, where the thief knocked a crate down on Hawk, injuring him. Dove pursued the crook and found that it was Hodgins. Dove was worried that Hawk would die, and he went into a rage, forgetting his pacifistic outlook and beating Hodgins into submission. Hawk and Dove changed to their civilian identities and Don rushed Hank to the hospital. Hank had a concussion, but the doctors determined there'd be no permanent damage. Don was troubled by his actions and talked to Hank, who reassured him that anyone would have reacted like he did when a loved one was badly hurt. Two weeks later Hawk and Dove chased a thief and ran into the Teen Titans.

(Teen Titans I #21) -

(The Hawk and the Dove I #6) - Judge Hall was attacked and Hawk and Dove frightened off the attacker, but feared he'd strike again. The attacker returned the next day and kidnapped Hall, so Hawk and Dove investigated. Hawk beat up underworld characters until he got some clues, while Dove looked through his dad's files and found one on Karl MacArthur, who'd died in jail, and noticed a resemblance to Arthur, who used to be the Halls gardener. They both went to Arthur's house and found their dad in a cage. Arthur was MacArthur's son and blamed Hall for his father's death. Hawk and Dove defeated Arthur and freed Hall. The next day Judge Hall lectured his sons about how Hawk and Dove were menaces, and that he would have talked Arthur down if the vigilantes hadn't arrived and brutalized the young man. Hank and Don both agreed that they weren't doing any good as heroes and that they should retire from crimefighting.

(Hawk and Dove II #1-5) - Hawk caught a gang of robbers and tied them up in steel cables. He went to find reporters and made it known that he was back fighting crime in Washington, D.C. He led the reports and Detective Wolfson to the captured crooks but found they'd freed themselves and were long gone. Hawk was angry that his moment was spoiled, and nearly punched out a photographer that got in his face. As Hank he returned to campus and resumed his daily pleading with the football coach to put him on the team. He was overseas as Hawk when his dad enrolled him in Georgetown University, and missed the try-outs. he made friends with marathon runner Kyle Spencer and had dinner with him, his girlfriend Donna Cabopt and her roommate Ren Takamori, who took a liking to Hank because she liked her men big and dumb. Hank also bumped into coed Dawn Granger. As Hawk he followed up a clue, one of the robbers from the morning robbery was wearing a Paulsen Photochemicals cap, so he went to the plant and found the criminals inside. He burst in, and was joined in battle by a new, female Dove. They defeated the robbers, but Hawk was outraged that someone took on his dead brother's superhero identity and took a swing at Dove. She ducked and evaded his further attacks, telling him she didn't choose to be Dove, that the same Voice that gave the original Dove his powers chose her. Hawk wouldn't listen so she left. Hank had dinner with his parents and ran into Dove again when she prevented a mugging, and they repeated their argument. The Lord of Chaos Kestrel was charged with killing Hawk, and their battle raged through the Air and Space Museum. Kestrel battered Hawk, leaving the hero ready for a deathblow before Dove arrived and saved him, drawing Kestrel away long enough for Hawk to change to Hank and get medical attention. The next day Kestrel sent a group of demonic commandos and Shadowblade to Hank's campus. Hank knew he needed help and found Ren, the girl he guessed was Dove, but his demands for her to change just frightened her. He turned into Hawk before her eyes just as Dove arrived, also revealing her identity as Dawn to Ren. Hawk and Dove were joined by Detective Wolfson and the Washington S.C.U. in battling the demons, and Hawk destroyed them by strapping a short-fuse bomb to himself, luring them to a deserted library, and blowing them up. Dove fought Shadowblade, and his own powers consumed him. Hawk agreed to work with Dove to stop Kestrel, and she shared her history with him, how she got her powers and came to Georgetown specifically to meet him because she felt she belonged with him. They confronted Kestrel in the Chaos Realm and he hinted to their connection with the Lords of Order and Chaos. The Chaos Realm weakened Dove and made Hawk more powerful and more violent. He nearly turned on Dove until Kestrel told him he should join up with him, and that they'd be as close as brothers. Thinking of Don, Hawk calmed down and refused. The Lords of Chaos were displeased with Kestrel's misstep and disintegrated him, and Hawk and Dove returned to Earth. Hank and Dawn had dinner with Hank's parents, and he broke it to her that he thought of her more as a sister than anything else, and she told him she'd get over it, but they decided to stay partners as Hawk and Dove.

(Hawk and Dove III #1) -Hank regaled Ren Takamori with his story of fighting alongside Earth's superheroes in the Invasion for the umpteenth time, exaggerating his role as a leader. Dawn told her version, noting that Guy Gardner and Booster Gold both hit on her. Hank, Dawn and Ren rode in a taxi, with Ren planning a date with Hank when they saw the storefront of a jewelry store explode. Hawk and Dove went into action and battled the robotic Gauntlet inside the store, defeating him by taking off his head, but he escaped, teleporting away.

(Hawk and Dove III #2, 3) -Hank tried out for the wrestling team, but lost his temper when he started losing to Rodger Back, and punched him in the stomach. The coach told Hank to get lost, but Bach was actually impressed with Hank's skill, and told the coach to give him another shot. Dawn was having a house warming, but Hank declined to go because the company would be too high society for him, but when a woman possessed by Huitzilopochtli attacked the house and Dove Hawk responded. Huitzilopochtli overpowered him and prepared to make him a blood sacrifice. Dove saved Hawk, but Huitzilopochtli captured Deb Kafka, a medic on the scene of the attack. Hawk and Dove followed them to the Washington Monument, where Huitzilopochtli attempted another sacrifice. They defeated the villain and hawk crushed Huitzilopochtli's pendant, supposedly trapping the god in the mortal's body.

(Hawk and Dove III #4) - Hawk and Dove walked into a bank robbery committed by the Untouchables, old-time gangster themed crooks. The Untouchables blasted their way out of the bank, and being beaten hurt Hawk’s pride, so when Ren expressed interest in the dangerous Untouchables he snapped at her. Hawk and Dove tracked the Untouchables to their speakeasy hideout and sent them to jail. Hank apologized to Ren, admitting he lacked social skills with women, and they planned a date at the beach to see a car show.

(Hawk and Dove III #5) - Hank and Ren went on a beach date when they met metahuman bully Sudden Death, who grabbed Hank's Ren Takamori and punched out Hank. Hank turned into Hawk and followed Death, who tried to drag Ren away for himself. They battled and once Hawk understood that Sudden Death exploded when his energy absorption powers reached critical levels, he overloaded him, tossed him into the sea so he could explode harmlessly, and knocked the weakened Sudden Death out with one punch. Hawk called D.C. Special Crimes so they could cart Sudden Death off to jail.

(Hawk and Dove III #6, 7) - Hawk gave Rodger Bach the cold shoulder at wrestling practice after hearing that he was "The Black Russian" and told him he wouldn't be friends with a commie.. Before Rodger could explain Hank was summoned to Barter's shop along with Dawn. Barter offered to reveal the truth behind the mysterious voice that gave them their powers if they stole a priceless bible from his old enemy Count St. Germaine. They agreed, and he sent them to find the Alchemist's tomb in Paris. They entered Germaine's mansion, which had defenses set for mortal and mystic intruders, and Hank transformed into Hawk to attract the mystic defenses and battle them while Dawn continued the search. Hawk fought his way past an elemental and gargoyles while Dawn learned that there was no alchemist's tomb, it was a rumor used by Germaine to trap test subjects, but she did deduce that the bible was hidden under a statue of Mercury. Hawk and Dove took the bible and escaped Germaine. Barter told them that the Lord of Chaos T'Charr gave Hawk his powers, and Lord of Order Terataya gave Dove hers. When they waited for more of an explanation he told them he only promised the names and nature of the mysterious voices, nothing more. Disappointed and angry, the heroes left the shop.

(Hawk and Dove III #8, 9) - Hank argued with Donna at Suds over the merits of his favorite writer Ernest Hemingway. Ren dragged Hank away and told him that while she was out taking photographs the day before she snapped a picture of Copperhead committing a murder. She was worried Copperhead would track her down, but Hank promised to protect her. The robot M.A.C. attacked an armored van, so Hawk and Dove teamed with The Washington S.C.U. to restrain it. Captain Arsala of the S.C.U. asked Dove out on a date and Hawk proceeded to run him down as a wimp. Hank and Dawn accompanied Ren back to her apartment where they found a gun-toting crimiunal who wanted their help in finding Kyle Spencer. Copperhead chose this opportunity to attack ren, and Hawk, Dove and the criminal fought him off. They learned that she was Rue Spencer, Kyle's aunt, and she wanted to meet Kyle's fiancée Donna, and needed to go to such measures because he wanted nothing to do with her. Hawk, Dove and Rue teamed up to defeat Copperhead. Rue was injured during the fight so the heroes put a mask on her and told Washington S.C.U. she was a new hero so they'd give her medical treatment without removing the mask.

(Hawk and Dove III #10-12) - Hank and Dawn were in the middle of midterms at Georgetown when Ren, who hadn't been acting like herself, flirted with some campus tough guys and provoked a fight between them and Hank. The fight came to an end when the robot Andromeda shot the roughnecks. Hawk and Dove fought Andromeda, as well as Gauntlet, who'd arrived on the scene to recover M.A.C. from police storage. Hawk managed to put a S.C.U. tracer on M.A.C. before Gauntlet teleported him away, but their fight blew up the police storage, and Hawk had to spend time recovering from his injuries. Hawk and Dove visited the New Titans and asked them to help track the robots and provide backj-up. The Titans weren't surprised that Hawk only came to see them because he wanted something, but they agreed and flew the T-Jet to the remote island where the robots were. They fought back the robots and their creator Professor Douglas Strange. The technorganic alien Scarab had been Strange to do his bidding, stealing gold so it could feed. The heroes injured Scarab and it fled. During the battle Andromeda, who'd been imprinted with the memories of Strange's wife Andromeda, was destroyed by Jericho. Hawk hated a victory that wasn't clear-cut and blamed the Titans, who doubted they'd work with him again.

(Hawk and Dove III #13) - Hank went to dinner with Ren, Kyle, Donna and Ruth Clayton, but unbeknownst to him Dawn was having her dinner date with Captain Arsala at the same restaurant. Hank got into a political discussion with Rue about Vietnam and made it clear he thought it was a just war that the U.S. should have played to win. Ruw revealed that the reason she was on the run from the law was that when she was younger her friend Shall and her tried to shut down Graytech, a munitions plant that was booming during Vietnam. Coincidentally Rue's former friend Shell Shock, who'd gained superhuman powers, was on a rampage. Hawk and Dove held off Shell Shock, who seemingly exploded herself when cornered. The police arrived, and Hawk uncharacteristically helped Rue escape. He explained to Dove that after hearing Rue's life story he'd decided the law sometimes gray had gray areas. Hawk and Dove returned to the restaurant and found Ren, who'd been possessed by kestrel, waiting for them.

(Hawk & Dove III #14-17) - Kestrel told Hawk and Dove this time she wanted them to chase her, opened a portal to the dimension of Druspa Tau, and vanished. Hawk and Dove went to Barter in desperation, and after they described where they wanted to go he named his price as just the name of their destination. He opened a portal to Druspa Tau and wanted to bargain for their return ride when Hawk, sick of haggling, knocked him out and took him with them. The paradise of Tau had been taken over by the Lord of Chaos M'Shulla, with Kestrel in his thrall. Hawk tried to fight Kestrel, but was afraid of hurting Ren, so he agreed to serve M'Shulla if he'd release Ren. Dove took off with Rome, an old man who still believed in Arriya, the Lord of Order, but their path was blocked by Flaw and Child, but she dispatched them. M'Shulla convinced Hawk of his cause, claiming that the Lords of Order imposed martial order on Tau, not revealing that Tau would burn out without their laws. Hawk agreed to be M'Shulla's warlord, and in return M'Shulla allowed Ren to turn back into her human form at will. In Tau Hawk could remove his costume, revealing his full glory as a Lord of Chaos.He sent Ren as a spy to the city of Capella that still resisted M'Shulla, and after reconnaissance hawk and M'Shulla's army conquered it. Hawk captured Rome, and Dove, in the safety of the Tridic Tower, planned to show Hawk the error of his ways. Hawk and M'Shulla's army stormed the Tridic Tower, and after Hawk and Dove had a heated battle the forces of Chaos won and the Tower collapsed. Rome had escaped M'Shulla, and learned Arriya's true name, Teratya, allowing him to summon the Lord to confront M'Shulla. During the final battle for Tau M'Shulla didn't want Hawk interfering. Child and Flaw attacked Hawk and Dove, and Hawk shattered Flaw. Kestrel attacked them next, but Dove, understanding Kestrel's true nature as a minor chaos spell of death, physically separated Ren from kestrel, and had Hawk absorb Kestrel into his own body, dissipating the weaker chaotic force. Terrataya was fatally wounded in the battle with M'Shulla and fled to a cave, where he had a talk with Hawk and Dove. Long ago Terrataya fell in love with lord of Chaos T'Charr and they bound themselves together as the Unity.To show the houses of Chaos and Order the potential of their cooperation they created the original Hawk and Dove. The Union told Hawk that Don hall was a weak candidate, which is why they had to take away his powers. The Union was dying, and Hawk and Dove would lose their powers if they didn't absorb their patron Lords into their own forms. With the Lords consciousness briefly still alive inside of them they chose to abandon Tau, because the Kali Yuga had arrived for it, it belonged to Chaos now. The Lords considered coupling, their experiment of Chaos and Order cooperating would be complete when Dove bore a child with Hawk that was a combined Lord. They decided the child must come from Hawk and Dove's own free will, and returned to Earth before the last of their consciousness became submerged. Hawk and Dove realized a part of them was deeply in love and embraced in a kiss.

(Hawk & Dove III #18, 19) -Hank and Dawn met at Suds to discuss their future, and decided not to tell Ren about their kiss. They attended the Georgetown University Law and Order Symposium to watch speeches from Judge Irwin hall and Hank's hero Jack Ryder. Hall put Ryder in his place when he defended Washington S.C.U/'s relationship with the vigilantes Hawk and Dove, and Hank was proud of his dad. The Madmen attacked the symposium to steal the experimental weaponry on show by the S.C.U.. Hawk and Dove joined the fray, and were joined by Ryder's alter-ego the Creeper. Creeper didn't get along with Hawk and Dove, and after he plowed a car into a group of Madmen, nearly injuring civilians, they thought of him as insane. The Secret Service intervened because Fleeter mentally controlled the other Madmen, and one of them was vice-president Quayle, who was speaking at the symposium. When Fleeter was knocked out the other Madmen regained their senses.

(Hawk and Dove Annual #1) - Hawk and Dove were brought to S.T.A.R. labs to investigate a portal opened by Director Jeffrey Simon as part of his Operation Zeppelin. Simon had disappeared, along with a rescue crew sent in after him. Hawk's old girlfriend Flamebird was in town, and called in other former members of Titans West for a reunion, and they all entered the portal, which led to Limbo. Deceased villains Iron Major, Top, Clayface, El Papagayo, Electrocutioner and Icicle were seeking to escape the underworld and return to Earth through the portal. They'd already taken the rescue team hostage to appease their demon jailer, a devil impersonating Etrigan. Hawk, Dove and the Titans battled them, and the tide turned when General Jeb Stuart came from Heaven to give Hawk his Haunted Tank. The false Etrigan was merely toying with the dead villains, and when he sent them through a portal, it turned out to be an entrance to Hell. Jeb went back to Heaven, and Hawk asked if he could accompany him and bring his brother back. Jeb convinced him that Dove's life work was done, and that he belonged in Heaven. The heroes returned to Earth with the rescue squad, and S.T.A.R. shut down Zeppelin. Flamebird wanted the Titans West to reform, but no one was that interested.

(Hawk & Dove III #20) - Hank went to Donna's Christmas party, and his friends gave him an answering machine because he'd been out of touch for so long. They didn't realize his life as Hawk was keeping him busy. He was distressed to find that Ren wasn't there because she was mad at him. She later met him at his apartment, and he tried to explain away kissing Dove. She forgave him and they embraced.

(Hawk & Dove III #21) - Hank finally got to see Rodger in action as the Black Russian, he worked at a boys club portraying a villain and teaching kids about the dangers of talking to strangers. The Female Furies attacked Washinton, playing a game to see who could kill the most people, with superheroes being worth the most points. Hawk and Dove went into action, and minimalized the loss of life. Malice of the Furies won the game by mauling the Black Russian with her demonic cat Chessure, and the Furies departed. Hawk held his dying friend in his arms.

(Hawk & Dove III #22) - Rodger miraculously survived, and Hank and Dawn spent the night by his hospital bedside. Hank needed to blow off steam, and attacked drug dealers in a park, but because he didn't transform into Hawk he had to be rescued by Dove. This disturbance attracted the attention of Sudden Death, who was looking to settle his old score with Hawk. After a fight, Sudden Death was defeated, but spirited away by crimelord Velvet Tiger. When Hawk returned home he found a message from his dead brother on his answering machine.

(Hawk & Dove III #23) - Hank and Ren kept an eye on Dove when she went on a dinner date with Arsala. Halfway through she changed into Dawn to have another date with Arsala, to see who he preferred. When Hank and Dawn went home they saw a car blown up by a bomb. Velvet Tiger's brother Hakker and his Cyber-Brats were trying to kill Tiger because she was evil. Hawk and Dove defeated the Brats and saved her, but she warned them they'd come to blows in the future. When Hawk got home he had another message on his answering machine from his dead brother.

(JSA #75) - In Hell the souls of Extant and others killed by Atom-Smasher cried to the Spectre for vengeance. The Spectre stopped Atom-Smasher’s heart, but Atom’s life was later saved by Black Adam.

(Teen Titans III #30, 31) - Brother Blood found Kid Eternity in Limbo and bit him, gaining some of his powers over life and death, and chained him to the opening of the door between life and death. He took advantage of the opening of the door, which had been cracked open ever since Superman returned from the dead, to escape from Raven's soul self and free an army of demons from Hell that attacked Los Angeles. He raised Omen from the dead to act as his surrogate mother and raised the deceased Titans Kole, Hawk, Dove, Aquagirl and Phantasm to act as his agents, calling them the New Titans West. The Titans West attacked the Teen Titans, and the battle was a stalemate until Raven freed Kid Eternity, who returned the New Titans to the afterlife.

(Blackest Night: Titans #1-3) - Hawk, Omen and Terra were resurrected as part of the Black Lantern Corps on Hero's Day, a day of remembering fallen heroes. They were charged with ripping out the hearts of those emotionally affected by their resurrection, gathering their emotions and using them to help Nekron return and end life in the universe. Hawk stalked Dove and her sister, who'd become the new Hawk. He battered them, and after telling the new Hawk that she was a pale imitation he ripped out her heart. She was resurrected as a Black Lantern, and they ganged up on Dove, but they couldn't get an emotional response because of her ties to the Lords of Order. She fled to Titans Tower, where several other Titans had been resurrected as Black Lanterns. The Black Lanterns attacked Dove, but her lifeforce connection permanently destroyed them. The surviving Lanterns, including Hawk, fled, and the Titans realized the war was far from over. Troia said they needed to get Dove on the front lines.

Comments: Created by Steve Skeates & Steve Ditko.

Hawk received profiles in Who's Who in the DC Universe #1 & Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #10. Extant received a profile in JSA Secret Files #1.

Extant had cameos in Guy Gardner: Warrior #27, JSA #52, 56.

Hawk had cameos in JSA All-Stars #3, New Gods III #15, Titans I #24 and Titans II #22.