HAWKWOMAN
Real Name: Shayera Thal
Class: Extraterrestrial (Thanagarian) technology-user
Occupation: Thanagarian police officer
Group Affiliation: Justice League
Known Relatives: Hyanthis (maternal grandmother), Thal Porvis (grandfather), Andar Pul (father), Shayera Thal (mother, deceased)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Thanagar
First Appearance: The Brave and the Bold I #34 (March, 1961)
Powers: As a Thanagarian Hawkwoman possessed enhanced strength, durability, and reflexes. Se was a skilled armed and unarmed combatant. She wore Thanagarian body armor and wings that gave him the power of flight.
History:
Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Joe Kubert.
Hawkwoman received a profile in Who s Who in the DC Universe #12.
Hawkwoman had cameos in Action Comics I #650, JLA #76 and Justice League of America II #7
Post-Crisis on Infinite Earth's Hawkwoman's appearances in the Justice League of America were no longer part of continuity, and his role was replaced by Hawkgirl.
HAWKWOMAN (pre-Crisis)
Real Name: Shayera Hol
Class: Extraterrestrial (Thanagarian) technology-user
Occupation: Superhero, Thanagarian police officer
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America
Known Relatives: Katar Hol (Hawkman, husband), Paran Katar (father-in-law)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Midway City, Michigan
First Appearance: The Brave and the Bold I #34 (March, 1961)
Powers: As a Thanagarian Hawkwoman possessed enhanced strength, durability, and reflexes. Se was a skilled armed and unarmed combatant, and preferred using Medieval weapons such as flails and maces. Her transportation was a Thanagarian star cruiser, the Absorbascon let her scan the minds of sentient lifeforms, and she wore wings and an anti-gravity belt that allowed her to fly.
History: Hawkwoman was a Thanagarian police officer who came to Earth in pursuit of criminal Byth. Se was intrigued by Earth, and decided to stay.
(Hawkman I #4) -Hawkman and Hawkgirl discovered a Shang statue and A Celtic cup in their museum collection, but had no knowledge of how they got in their collection. Hawkman flew to the city of Yin in China, and Hawkgirl flew to the Hill of Tara in Ireland in hopes of getting clues. They each found bandits raiding relics, and defeated them. They also both discovered an immobile sorceress, Zatanna. They brought the two Zatannas to their Thanagarian spaceship, and she merged into one person. She told them that she was Zatara's daughter, and after her father disappeared she searched the world to find him. She attempted to split herself in two, but being unfamiliar with some spells, she found herself mystically drained and immobile, and sent the relics from Yin and Tara to Midway, knowing the hawks would save her. Hawkman used the absorbascon to search Earth, but found no one had knowledge of Zatara's location, and with heavy heart Zatanna left to pursue other avenues.
(Hawkman I #4) - Thieves from the year 11964 came to the past and engaged in a robbery spree. Hawkman and Hawkgirl tried to foil their robbery of an art gallery, but the thieves' human magnetor pinned them down. Hawkman analyzed fibers from the thieves costumes, and developed a chemical that wouldn't be affected by the magnetor. After covering himself and Hawkgirl in the chemical they confronted the robbers, who made another raid on the past. Knowing that the thieves couldn't bring anything from the past into the future that wasn't inside of their magnetor car, they covered it in modern paint. The thieves were sent to jail, and Hawkman suggested auctioning off their futuristic possessions to compensate the victims of their robberies.
(Hawkman I #5) - Lucius Crane, an elderly gem collector, decided to donate his collection to the Midway City Museum, but when Carter and Shiera came to pick up the valuables they found Shadow-Thief stealing them. As Hawkman and Hawkgirl they pursued him, but a booby trapped gun Shadow-Thief wielded took Hawkman out of action and allowed the villain to escape, and he let it be known to them that he'd guessed their secret identities because of their immediate appearance after they met him in their civilian identities. After another robbery they confronted him, but Shadow-Thief used his dimensiometer to send them in the form of shadows to the shadow dimension of Xarapion from which her got his powers. He used a paralysis beam to imprison their shadows, and as a consequence their earthly bodies were also immobilized. The Thief detailed a plan to use his dimensiometer to bring an ice age to Earth, and left the heroes in their prison, along with Thar Dan, who'd initially given him the dimensiometer and now regretted it. Hawkman used telepathy that was a side effect of the beam to contact a hawk on Earth that moved his body, and on Xarapion he was now free of the beam. Thar Dan gave them a dimensiometer that let them return to normal and physically attack Shadow-Thief on Earth. Once captured Shadow-Thief threatened to reveal their identities, but Hawkman had Dal use a paralysis ray on the Thief's human form on Xarapion to keep him from talking, while his shadow was imprisoned in an Earth prison.
(Hawkman I #6) - Archaeologist Paul Colby unearthed a golden mask created by Vulcan in Greece and presented it to Carter and Shiera Hall of the Midway Museum. It was once the mask of a giant automaton that wrecked havoc in Greece centuries ago. As he was hanging it in the Hellas Hall it possessed him and subdued Carter. The mask took him back to Mount Olympus with the Halls in their superhero identities of Hawkman and Hawkgirl in hot pursuit. The mask uncovered its body and reunited, bringing the Giant in the Golden Mask back to life. The Ginat went on a rampage until the hawks found the case where Colby discovered the mask, and once again separated the giant and his face, leaving him immobile. The giant was kept on display as a tourist attraction to bring in money to restore the town it wrecked. The mask was brought to the Midway Museum, where it was unveiled to the public for one minute daily, not enough time for it to take mental possession of anyone nearby.
(Hawkman I #6) - Hawkman and Hawkgirl planned a dinner date, but before their night out Hawkgirl spent the afternoon cleaning their Thanagarian ship. Kalvars, aliens that crash-landed on Earth thousands of years ago, awoke and needed an intact spaceship to depart the planet. Their leader Fal Tal attacked Hawkgiel mentally and made off with the Hawks ship. The Hawks repaired the Kalvar ship and overtook the aliens, temporarily disabling their Thanagarian craft, and took them to Thanagar to stand trial for the theft.
(Justice League of America I #119) - Hawkwoman remained quarantined on Thanagar after her world was affected by the virulent Equalizer s Disease that made everyone equal in physical and mental capabilities. When the Adapoids invaded Earth Hawkman brought her from Thanagar to the JlofA satellite, where her disease gave the JlofA the advantage over the Adapoids, who were used to evolving new powers to deal with their enemies. Atom ran medical tests on the heroes and concluded that they were immune to the Equalizer Disease after their previous exposure, and Hawkgirl had been cured. Hawkman was glad to have his companion back on Earth, and vowed to work with her to find a way to cure his people.
(Justice League of America I #121) - Hawkgirl and the JlofA attended the wedding of Adam Strange and Alanna on Rann.
(DC Comics Presents #11) - Hawkgiel met with Superman, worried because Hawkman had broken off contact with her. She d heard that he d attacked Superman in Paris, and thought he might be mind-controlled. Superman vowed to find Hawkman, and he did, freeing him from the control of villain Frank Rayles.(DC Comics Presents #37) - Archaeologist Dr. Irwin Wright called up the Halls when he discovered unearthly artifacts in the Rocky Mountains. Carter was away, so Shiera responded, and he was let down. She was irritated with his reaction, and reminded him that she d worked hand-in-hand with her husband for years, and had co-authored much of his work. Wright apologized for his old-fashioned attitude. Shiera recognized the writing as Kryptonese, and called in Superman. Superman and Hawkgirl soon discovered an entire hidden Kryptonian lab built in the 1800s. A 3-D recorder reveal the scientific journal of the lab s builder, Var-El, Superman s great-grandfather. When the Kryptonian government forbid him to do experiments on his theory of universal solar storage, he invented a teleportation ray to take him to Earth to pursue his work. Var-El theorized that energies were universally attracted, and the energy of dying stars made its way into an X-Dimension for cold storage. Superman discovered a cosmic iris that led to the X-Dimension, and was sucked inside. He realized his great-grandfather s fate when he saw that the core of the X-Dimension was a red star that sapped Kryptonians powers. The energies of billions of years of cosmic energy drew him to the core, but Hawkgirl activated her anti-gravity belt to save him. She fought off scavengers, weird extra dimensional buzzard like entities, and dragged him from the iris. Superman was pleased to learn about his family history, but sealed off the lab so no one would accidentally venture into it again.
Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Joe Kubert.
Hawkwoman received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #10.
Hawkwoman had cameos in DC Comics Presents #4 and Justice League of America I #117.
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