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Warning : SPOILERS ForHawkman # 1 .
It is a well known fact among comic account book trivia buffs that the high - flyingHawkmanhas been reincarnated numerous times across the course of history . However , the first publication of the newHawkmanseries hand over a startling revelation - his Renaissance have not been limited to Earth ’s account and the Winged Wonder has been a hero on humans beyond Earth and Thanagar !
First appearing inFlash Comics # 1 in 1940 , Hawkman has one of the strange and most knotty backgrounds in American comic strip history . to begin with Hawkman was introduce as Carter Hall - an archeologist / venturer in the same vein asIndiana Jones , who discovered that he was the rebirth of an Egyptian prince and could wing through the use of a mysterious metal that contradict gravity , which he discovered in an ancient tomb . The Silver Age of Comics , which saw DC Comics revamp many of their character with skill - fabrication subject , insert Katar Hol - a winged lawman from the planet Thanagar , who came to survive on a different parallel Earth than Carter Hall . Eventually , as the various Earths were merged followingCrisis On Infinite Earths , the account was rewritten so that Katar Hol was one of Carter Hall ’s many reincarnations and the mystic metal that gave Hall the office to flee was revealed to be of Thanagarian origin .
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The most recent retelling of Hawkman ’s origins for the realism ofDC Rebirthhas reinstate this status quo , with Carter Hall alive and well in the mod day DC Universe and recall another life-time as the Thanagarian warrior Katar Hol . The action of the first issue focus upon Hall ’s feat to think an ancient artifact call The Nautilus of Revealment . Once used by lawmen to break thieves , liars and undercover agent , it is enounce The Nautilus has the power to let on all the hidden secret of a soul ’s past , take a shit it a handy physical object if you are an amnesiac eternal superstar like Cater Hall .
With the assistance of the clairvoyant Madame Xanadu , Carter Hall is able to set off the Nautilus of Revealment . He is treated to a rush of images as he recalls all of his past lives . This lead to the revelation that in addition to being Katar Hol of Thanagar , Carter Hal was also once Catar - Ol of Krypton and Katarthul of Rann . Krypton will be by nature be familiar to fan ofSupermanandSupergirlbut the world of Rann is another key planet in the cosmogeny of DC Comics , being home to an sophisticated slipstream protect by the Earthman Adam Strange .
Hall ’s sight concludes with a brief glance of a dark future in which Earth is destroyed by giant winged men . He feels that the reasons for his reincarnation and the blood line of his first life are tied to this get along disaster and his need to stop it . Where this may head in future payoff ofHawkmanis anyone ’s speculation , but it proves a charge hook that is certain to keep lector anxiously awaiting the answer .
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Hawkman # 1is now available fromDC Comics .
