Occasionally, the two would meet when a global threat required both the JSA and the Justice League of America to partner together to stop it, but in theory, it didn't really matter Clever, no? And, get this - he too liked using ancient weapons when fighting crime! This was fine, of course, as it would soon be revealed that the Katar Hol version of the character lived on Earth-One, while the original version of Hawkman lived on the parallel world, Earth-Two. They would need aliases, naturally, so they adopted the names Carter and Shiera Hall, curators of a museum in Midway City. Hawkman was reintroduced in the pages of The Brave and the Bold #34 as Katar Hol, an alien police officer from the planet Thanagar, who, along with his wife Shayera, pursued a Thanagarian fugitive to Earth, where the two decided to stay. DC decided to reboot their Golden Age heroes in new incarnations, retaining their same names and powers. Then came 1961, the first alteration of Hawkman's origin story and point zero for the debacle to follow the hero for years. Hawkman was also aided in crime fighting by his companion hawk, Big Red Thanks to his occupation as a museum curator, Hall had access to the museum's store of ancient weapons that he used in his heroic pursuits. Donning a costume with large wings and a golden hawk-like mask, Hall became Hawkman, fighting the evils of crime and Nazis, in no particular order. The latest incarnation of prince Khufu discovered a ninth, or Nth, metal, one that defied gravity, allowing him to fly. He started off as archeologist Carter Hall, as mentioned above. Hawkman's beginning in Flash Comics wouldn't seem to be anything that would destroy DC's space-time continuum of origins down the road. It’s the complicated, but utterly fascinating backstory of the hero set to be played by Aldis Hodge in the upcoming DC film, Black Adam. Most often, he is human archeologist Carter Hall, a reincarnation of Egyptian prince Khufu. Here are the facts about Hawkman that are pretty straight-forward: he was first introduced in Flash Comics #1 in 1940, he favors the use of a mace as a weapon, he has large, artificial wings, and is typically side-by-side with Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman.
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