{"id":4297,"date":"2022-07-29T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2022-07-09T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T01:30:18","slug":"780-the-silver-age-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/780-the-silver-age-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"780 – The Silver Age Hawks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The new Hawkman and Hawkgirl in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

DC continues to attempt Golden Age revivals of their characters in The Brave and the Bold #34 (Dec 1960) with Hawkman and Hawkgirl<\/a>. Drawn by none other than the amazing Joe Kubert and written by none other than the pretty cool Gardner Fox, this Hawk-couple are alien police officers from the planet Thanegar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katar and Shayera Hol meet up with a human police commissioner who agrees to give them human identities to track down a Thanegarian criminal named Byth who can transform into any creature. Carter and Shiera Hall take up residence and employment as curators of a museum. At least one thought is given to where they would actually live too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawks gain Earth-bound identities in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Joe Kubert, the visuals are pretty amazing. As I said before<\/a>, I’m a big fan of the original hawk helmet part of the costume, so I’m glad to see that basically unchanged from the original Hawkman’s costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawks tackle a pteradactyl-like creature in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They even try to inject some adult-level humor with Shiera’s icy response to some floozy named Mavis (Mavis?!?) that’s attracted to Carter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hawkgirl<\/a>
Hawkgirl marking her territory in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gardner insists on keeping around “weapons” of the past, showing how it makes sense for the Hawks to use ancient relics to fight futuristic, scientific criminals. Uh-huh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawks choose some weapons in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After capturing the baddie and sending him home to Thanegar, the Hawks decide to take up a permanent position on Earth to “study your police methods”. Maybe they heard of the Justice League and they’re really just waiting for an invitation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Hawks stay on Earth in The Brave and The Bold #34, December 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’d been exactly a decade<\/a> since comic book readers had seen Hawkman, so it was perfect timing. Overall it’s the artwork and premise that makes me give a thumbs-up to this Silver Age reincarnation of Golden Age heroes, the writing is just blah. I know the Hawk-folks don’t fare as well as The Flash<\/a> and Green Lantern<\/a> in terms of revival success, but this first issue kind of makes me wish they had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DC continues to attempt Golden Age revivals of their characters in The Brave and the Bold #34 (Dec 1960) with Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Drawn by none other than the amazing Joe Kubert and written by none other than the pretty cool Gardner Fox, this Hawk-couple are alien police officers from the planet Thanegar. Katar and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,14,73,80,74,199,112,431,445,553],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-dc","tag-flash","tag-gardner-fox","tag-green-lantern","tag-hawkgirl","tag-hawkman","tag-joe-kubert","tag-silver-age","tag-superhero-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}