DC History Club March 2022 Hawkgirl

In 2011
New 52 Happened

A lot of continuity
Was thrown away

The JSA never existed on the main Earth

In 2012
The Earth 2 Title occured

There was a new super hero team on this Earth

Called Wonders

And Jay Garrick and Alan Scott was young

There was also a new Hawkgirl

Glimpses of her origin are in issues 9 and 10

Time line

https://www.cosmicteams.com/jsa/_new-52/earth-2-chron-01.html

Bio of this Kendra

Earth 2 series

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Another Kendra appeared in CW

Flash

First Season of
Legends of Tomorrow

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A new Kendra is introduced in

Dark Nights Metal

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The main arc with Kendra begins with

Issue 14 of
Justice League

Some panels from the story

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As Kendra asked

How is this possible?

So I asked
@HubCityQuestion

Also
Further info

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For
@waylinjones
And other
DC Super Heroes Fans

Another
“Maybe” Kindra

I am not sure of this

She is only called
Hawkgirl in the credits

And those wings seem to be attached to her body

And in this series
Even Queen Hippolyta
Sounds American
So there is no accent
As a clue

And
Various
Shayeras
Were Detectives
As Police Officers

Kendra did not have that background

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I wouldn’t argue against the criticisms of this series, but I have to say I enjoyed the heck out of it at the time.

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I enjoyed her as Kendra, but Hawkman was too short. I know that’s shallow of me, but Hackman should be a huge dude.

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Like this

From
Brighest Day

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Exactly, the actor they had was in shape, but this is what Hawkman should look like

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Looking forward to Gardner Fox week. I’ve got two issues left from the '60s. By far some of the more readable Silver Age stories. There’s a nice two-parter with Adam Strange and Alanna (though we only hear Hawkgirl’s voice in issue one).

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Starting March 21 2022
Our Topics will be

  1. Shayera Hol in the 1961 Brave and Bold

By Gardner Fox and Joe Kubert

Shayera was Shayera Thal before she married Katar Hol.

  1. In 1989 Hawkworld was published. Although intended to be a Pre Sequel, it changed Thanagar from a Utopia to a Warlike Planet Controlled by an Elite.

From then on there was only Shayera Thal

Depending on the writer, this Shayera could be anything from a Cop to Empress of the Thanagar Empire.
(But not barista. That’s CW Kendra’s Job)

Since Thanagarians are very longed lived, with their appearance unchanging in decades, there may be two Shayeras, as in Hawkworld, an Elite and an Orphan born in the Underclass, that explains their various roles

Since in a Elite Society, it would be improbable for an Elite female to deign to be a cop

Or for a Cop to become a Princess or Empress

And one from the lower class, eventually struggling to get a job as a cop.

(Or just blame Flashpoint, New 52, or Dr Manhattan)

  1. Carter calls his wife Sheira at the End of Blackest Night.

In Brighest Day and the 2018 Hawkman Title,

Shiera Sanders Hall is Hawkgirl

Besides those two titles

Her 1940 origins in Flash 1

And alternate Shiera Sanders in DC Bombshells and her relationship with African Queen Vixen in the 1940s

Will be covered

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In our library

The Brave and the Bold
1961
Issues 34 36 42 43 44

Hawkman

Julie Schwartz Editor
Gardner Fox Writer
Joe Kubert Artist

Hawkman and Hawkgirl are married police officers from the planet Thanagar

Series

We will concentrate on issues 34 and 42

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Issue 34 of
The Brave and the Bold
Is very readable

Here are pages from the beginning and end of the story

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I was 11 when I bought
Brave and Bold 34

I thought
Joe Kubert’s Art
Was incredible

Still do

I also thought the writing was great

Gardner Fox usually had to pack a lot of story in from 6 to 12 pages from the 1940s to the 1970s

Because comic books contained multiple stories in each issue

Now
60 years later
Having taken
Many writing courses
And written
A draft of a novel
And
A page by page
Treatment of a comic book
For a NYU class taught by Denny O’Neil

I realize how challenging that can be

I realize he had to resort to what is called

Expository Writing

Which is described in this link

https://community.dcuniverseinfinite.com/t/the-writers-iceberg-thoughts-and-polls/1511913/4137

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Hawman and Hawkgirl visit their home planet of Thanagar in issue 42 of Brave and Bold

The panels below are like a TV Commercial

“Visit Thanagar
You’ll have a great experience”

In the 1989 Hawkworld Series

This Utopia is a lie

Showing how this only is

How the few Elites live

While the majority of people in Thanagar experience oppression and poverty.

Many Post Crisis Titles
like Batman Year One
were powerful, dark and influential

To the degree that even in the cartoon series Batman Brave and Bold, when Aquaman Mera and Aquababy enter the city limits of Gotham, Arthur immediately locks the car doors

But they were good stories

The effect of Hawkworld
reduced the world of

Thanagar, and its Hawkman and Hawkgirl

To violent warlike caricatures of their Silver Age versions

Many poorly done series were produced as a result

Even to a degree the Justice League Animated Episodes Starcrossed

I really miss this Thanagar

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A nice opinion article
About the
Silver Age Hawkman comic

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Thanks for this! I love this site until it gave me the news that Dark Knights Metal TPBs are completely out of order.

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It is a great article

Really showing many aspects of the Julie Schwartz part of the DC Silver Age.

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Another thank you @TurokSonOfStone1950. I am a fan of Meltzer as a writer and a person. I have read a few of his novels and would tweet him my thoughts. He would always @ me with a reply. Book of Lies, a book that weaved a mystery in the city of Cleveland included Superman’s history in a way I haven’t seen in other books.

More to the point of this article, when Justice League was coming out, I recently returned to comic books. On a whim, one day, my friend and I went to a comic shop and I walked out with the 3 TPBs that made up the full Death and Return of Superman storyline. This quickly evolved to going to comic shops on a weekly basis and finally getting a subscription. Infinite Crisis had just wrapped up and Meltzer’s Justice League was about to hit the shelves. At the time, the only person I followed in comics was Michael Turner. His art drew me into comics as no other artist has before and to be honest, since. Darwyn Cooke is a very close second. Both gone way too soon.

Needless to say, I didn’t notice that Brad Meltzer wrote this Justice League book. Only later in life did I make the connection that he wrote this and one of my favorite books. Still, the memories of getting those first issues of Justice League along with other books are some of my favorite memories of comic collecting.

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