Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
It depends on which of his JSA days you're talking about

In the original 1940s run, Carter Hall could be intense, but not really a Wolverine-esque type.

The 1960s-1980s Katar Hol (never a JSA member) was a space cop and scientist. The logic behind him using archaic weaponry was a bit strained, but it was almost like he enjoyed the fun of it. Late in the 1970s, JLA writers often gave him heavy, order-centric political views in contrast to Green Arrow so the authors could debate concepts through them, but again, not really a barbarian type.

In his revived 1960s-1980s appearances, Carter Hall was always a JSA elder statesman type.

Hawkworld's Katar Hol of the early 1990s was definitely a hardened character (they kind of Count of Monte Cristo'd up his back story), but still more libertarian idealist than Savage.

Now after they did all that Hawkman blending in the late 1990s-early 2000s (still gives me brain aches merely to think upon it), that's when all this hairy chested Winged-Conan stuff seems to have come in.
The original. The Golden Age. I thought Post Crisis Hawkman was in JLA.