Originally Posted by
Robanker
It's all Carter Hall stuff, no real Katar and the Johns take is the primary one they're going for, which frankly is rad because Johns is the one who rescued Hawkman from his Zero Hour mess and did so in his classic JSA run.
What he's got is the JSA run which eventually revived Hawkman and the solo series Johns wrote alongside his JSA book concurrently. Beyond that, a celebrated JSA title where Hawkman appears (Golden Age) and the current Venditti stuff. Through-line is reincarnating Hawkman. I would argue it's pretty much a primer for Carter Hall specifically, though you'll want some Kubert Silver Age/Hawkworld for that Katar element that Venditti/the Justice League animated show draws from.
But if you just want a crash course on Hawkman and his ties to ancient Egypt, well, there it is in one picture. Someone gave Aldis a pretty great reading list.