{"id":765,"date":"2019-03-18T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-02-16T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:16:41","slug":"90-how-about-a-superhero-with-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/90-how-about-a-superhero-with-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"90 &#8211; How About A Superhero With Wings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-hawkman.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Hawkman story in Flash Comics #1, November 1939\" class=\"wp-image-775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-hawkman.png 782w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-hawkman-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-hawkman-768x499.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Hawkman story in Flash Comics #1, November 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawkman\">Hawkman<\/a> also debuted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Comics\">Flash Comics<\/a> #1 (November 1939). He was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardner_Fox\">Gardner Fox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Neville\">Dennis Neville<\/a>. Carter Hall, a research scientist and collector of weapons, has a dream of a past life as Prince Khufu, he discovers the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nth_metal\">Ninth Metal<\/a>, creates wings which defy gravity and decides to use &#8220;weapons of the past&#8221; to fight bad guys.  As one does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the up side, Hawkman is a visually striking character who has an interesting backstory (the reincarnation and romance bit) and I <em>really<\/em> like the pencils and inks here. On the down side, they never explain why Carter Hall would decide to dress up as a hawk man and use his gravity-defying metal in this way. And I just can&#8217;t seem to forgive Gardner Fox writing &#8220;the ancient hawk-god <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anubis\">Anubis<\/a>&#8220;, when he really meant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horus\">Horus<\/a>. Couldn&#8217;t he have thumbed through a damn encyclopedia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkman also debuted in Flash Comics #1 (November 1939). He was created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville. Carter Hall, a research scientist and collector of weapons, has a dream of a past life as Prince Khufu, he discovers the Ninth Metal, creates wings which defy gravity and decides to use &#8220;weapons of the past&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,14,113,32,80,112,401,399],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-dc","tag-dennis-neville","tag-firsts","tag-gardner-fox","tag-hawkman","tag-prince-khufu","tag-reincarnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}