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Creature
of a Thousand Shapes
A man stopped his car to check on an injured dog. The
dog somehow became a bear and attacked the man. A spaceship
neared Earth's moon. The ship's occupants, husband and
wife Katar and Shayera Hol, were Thanagarian law enforcers
tracking the shape-shifting creature. The sent out probes
to study Earth so that they could fit in. After learning
what they could, the donned their uniforms (their costumes
enabled them to fly using alien technology and exhibited
large birdlike wings) and visited a Midway City police
commissioner, George Emmett.
Katar told Commissioner Emmett about their prey, a Thanagarian
thief named Byth who'd stolen a formula which allowed
him to morph into what ever creature he desired. Emmett
set them up as museum coordinators in order for them
to track Byth in disguise. They took the more Earthly
sounding names Carter and Shiera Hall. Soon, they began
communicating with the local birds asking them to help
track Byth.
Soon, a robin reported to them saying it had seen a
magpie carrying a shiny stone. Byth had stolen a huge
diamond as this bird. The robin led Hawkman and Hawkgirl
to the location. They gave chase, but the criminal escaped
them by turning into a fly and escaping their net. He
then changed into a fish and swam off in a group of
identical fish. The Hawks realized their task was now
much more difficult with the man knowing they were after
him.
Byth was caught in a whirlpool and led through an underwater
river into a strange land with unknown beasts. He studied
them so that he could change into them and confuse the
Hawks.
One of the museum employees set up an exhibit featuring
a bird native to Thanagar. Carter realized she'd seen
Byth. That night, the two headed out to the area where
the photograph had been taken. They spotted Byth as
a strange animal blasting lightning at them. He again
escaped, this time by turning into a termite and burrowing
into the shaft of one of their arrows.
Byth surfaced again, this time as a huge Thanagarian
beast. The Hawks used more alien technology to accent
earth weapons. Byth was captured and sent back to Thanagar.
Katar and Shayera were allowed to stay on Earth for
a study of it's local police techniques.
Menace
of the Matter Master
Commissioner Emmett called in the Hawks when a costumed
villain robbed an armored truck. The Matter Master made
off with $500,000. Emmett also told them fireballs were
now raining across the city. They investigated and found
the meteorites were merging into creatures. The creatures
then merged into a single form hundreds of feet tall.
The Matter Master attacked them with his helicopter
blades.
The Matter Master's next strike was in their own museum.
Katar's heightened senses were returning to him, and
he was able to track the smell of flowers to the villain's
lair. His trap was turned on him and the Matter Master
was captured.
Valley
of the Vanishing Men
Mavis, one of the museum employees, had gone missing.
Only her camera was recovered. After the film was developed,
Carter and Shiera headed for Tibet: Mavis had found
the abominable snowman. Hawkman learned some details
about the Yeti - when it raised its ax and showed down
sparks, anyone witnessing would disappear. Carter was
too late to save his wife from one. Shiera disappeared
before his eyes. He spoke with an eagle, who told him
that the "snowmen" were actually aliens who
crash landed generations before. They'd been unable
to repair their ship and had forgotten their purpose
over the years, only knowing they must hide from Earthlings.
When they caused people to disappear, they were actually
teleported back to their camps.
Hawkman, realizing the Yeti shielded themselves from
their stones with wooden handles, attacked their base
with a wooden staff. He was able to destroy the device
keeping the humans in containment and free them. He
then taught the locals how to defeat the creatures'
attacks.
Strange
Spells of the Sorcerer
Hawkman saved Mavis again, this time from a magical
winged bull which appeared as she translated an ancient
script. The Hawks went with a bird friend to Hawk Valley,
where a strange bird had been attacking. They were met
by a phoenix. Hawkman pelted it with a stone and it
vanished much like the winged bull. One bird nest was
raided. Back at the museum, Carter realized a sword
had been stolen.
The Hawks learned what was being created and informed
Commissioner Emmett what he needed to look out for.
On their way out, they encountered a fire-breathing
dragon. Hawkman took it down with a boat anchor. Like
the others, the creature disappeared on contact. Another
theft was reported during the dragon situation. Mavis
found Hawkman and asked him to recover her stolen ring
as well. He realized it had to have been stolen while
he and Shayera were speaking with a man about sorcery
in the museum. On their way to his home, the encountered
centaurs and a medusa. Inside, they took down the would-be
sorcerer and recovered the stolen items. Once in custody,
the items were all returned to their rightful owners.
Shadow-thief
of Midway City
The Hawks, preparing to return to Thanagar, were summoned
by Commissioner Emmett - in the middle of the day, a
"shadow" strolled into a bank, robbed it,
and strolled out. No one could touch or shoot it. They
reacted later to a police flare. The Shadow-Thief took
in another score while the Hawks were baffled. Back
at home, the man thought back on his interdimensional
meeting with a being who gave him the device which enabled
him to become a shadow.
Using photos Shayera had taken, Katar was able to find
a match in a police mug shot book. Together they captured
the Shadow-Thief (Carl Sands) and destroyed his interdimensional
device. The two prepared to return to Thanagar.
The
Menace of the Dragonfly Raiders
After more than six months on Earth, Katar and Shayera
returned to Thanagar. After a few days of R&R, a
robbery was announced. Katar and Shayera went after
the villains (small green creatures riding huge dragonflies).
None of the Thanagarian weapons had an effect on them,
and they got away. The Hawks went to police headquarters
asking permission to use Earth methods should they strike
again.
Permission granted, Hawkman led a team of officers using
a lasso. They captured all the thieves and placed them
in custody. No sooner could they get the loot back to
its rightful place than the dragonflies returned to
steal it. Soon, it was learned that Byth had escaped.
Also, the tiny people who'd been apprehended were androids
- the dragonflies were the true thieves.
Katar and Shayera took some time to think things over,
then set a trap for Byth and his friends. The trap was
sprung and the Hawks gave chase. Using radioactivity
in the bait, a trail was left by the thieves. A fight
was put up at their hide-out, but Hawkman and Hawkgirl
took them down. Katar was given Honor Wings after the
successful capture.
The
Masked Marauders of Earth
Giant birds wearing human masked attacked the House
of Jewels in Midway City. The building disappeared,
then so did the creatures. Minutes later, the House
returned, with two jewels missing. Someone who was inside
told police one of the birds had mentioned "thanagar."
Commissioner Emmett used a device left with him by Katar
and Shayera to warn the planer. Meanwhile, the "manhawks"
robbed a laboratory.
As Hawkman and Hawkgirl rocket back to Earth, they reviewed
details from ten years previous when the Manhawks attacked
Thanagar. As a youth experimenting with his father's
invention (the wings), Katar witnessed the first theft
in Thanagarian history when the Manhawks stole a chariot.
The stealing continued. Later, Katar was able to grab
one of the masks so his father could analyze it. Wearing
a hawk mask created by his father to counter act the
manhawks' weapons, Katar went after the thieves. He
neutralized the masks and the rest of his team captured
and imprisoned the Manhawks.
Their ship reached Earth and the Hawks met with Commissioner
Emmett. The Manhawks had just staged another robbery
in Pittsburgh and were heading north. Hawkman and Hawkgirl
encountered them and fought them all the way to Niagra
Falls. They were unable to grab one of their masks,
and the giant birds got away. Carter and Shiera went
back to the museum to think. They soon realized the
Manhawks must have perfected Laser technology. The Hawks
found the Manhawk spacecraft and attacked it. By creating
"black rain," the Hawks nullified the eyes
of the masks. All the Manhawks were captured. Their
masks were given to both Earth and Thanagar to study
and help against future attacks.
Earth's
Impossible Day
Hawkman and Hawkgirl were enjoying a July 4 (which coincided
with Thanagar's "Impossible Day") picnic when
one of their bird friends warned them of a forest fire.
They were able to fly fast enough to create an upwards
water spout in a nearby river, putting out the flames.
They realized two more "impossible" things
and they'd have also celebrated Impossible Day as they
would have on their home world. A second "impossible"
was done when they threw "lightning" (petrified
lightning) at a car stopping a high-speed chase after
a prison break.
A theft occurred at their museum. Carter realized the
thief had first turned his loot invisible so he could
simply walk out with it. He watched the man do it a
second time. The Hawks pursued and dodged the bullets
of the man's invisible gun. After taking the thief down,
they told Commissioner Emmett that they'd created lenses
to counter act the "invisibility" after studying
the second stolen item.
Shayera said it was the best Impossible Day ever.
The
Men who Moved the World
The museum was attacked by three humanoid figures claiming
to be centuries old. Hawkman went after the creatures:
one had a cat's head, one a dog's, and one a goat's.
He was able to grab a handful of one's tunic as they
escaped. Later, at home, Shiera screamed as their belongings
began to float into the air. Radio reported that the
Earth had shifted in its orbit - closer to the sun.
The Hawks got in costume and headed to the ancient city
Petra, where the material from the tunic was from. The
three creatures used what they'd stolen from the museum
to alter the orbit in hopes of thawing out polar ice
caps to reveal their ancient city. The ancient men attacked
the Hawks in fighter planes, which were defeated by
Katar and Shayera. Once captured, they told the Hawks
their plan. Hawkman destroyed their gravitation machine
and handed them over to the UN.
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