Hawkman appreciation 2022

[Frontier]

From the 1977 DC Calendar. Art by Joe Kubert.

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What I wouldn't give for a DC calendar with art like this .

[kcekada]

What I wouldn't give for a DC calendar with art like this .

I found the 1976 calendar at a record shop in my local mall and asked for it as Christmas gift. Still have it! It has a lot of Neal Adams illustrations including a brilliant Bronze Age Legion shot that recalls Adams' cover of Superman 252. Dick Giornado provided illustrations for some of the other months including one with Hawkgirl, Supergirl, Mary Marvel and Lois Lane.

I would have purchased that 1977 calendar I found it. I do recall you could mail-order it. I had never seen that Kubert/Hawks illustration, but after a Google search led me to pics of the rest of the calendar, I daresay it was the best of the lot. Even better than the Neal Adams shot of Spectre and Deadman facing off against stone giants on Easter Island.

[Frontier]

I found the 1976 calendar at a record shop in my local mall and asked for it as Christmas gift. Still have it! It has a lot of Neal Adams illustrations including a brilliant Bronze Age Legion shot that recalls Adams' cover of Superman 252. Dick Giornado provided illustrations for some of the other months including one with Hawkgirl, Supergirl, Mary Marvel and Lois Lane.

I would have purchased that 1977 calendar I found it. I do recall you could mail-order it. I had never seen that Kubert/Hawks illustration, but after a Google search led me to pics of the rest of the calendar, I daresay it was the best of the lot. Even better than the Neal Adams shot of Spectre and Deadman facing off against stone giants on Easter Island.

Sounds like it would be awesome to own one...

[signalman112]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

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[Frontier]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

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That's a killer tagline .

[kcekada]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

ShadowWarHawkman.jpg

Howell with Alfredo Alcala as inker. Howell went on to draw the regular, short-lived ongoing. Alacala didn't particpate that time-- and the art suffered for it. This was a post-Crisis series, but they still managed to muck things with Hawkword set in present time.

[MajorHoy]

. . . This was a post-Crisis series, but they still managed to muck things with Hawkword set in present time.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that.

* Shadow War of Hawkman came out in January-April of 1985, and Crisis on Infinite Earths had issue #1 (of 12) released in December 1984.
* After the Shadow War of Hawkman four-issue series, there was a Hawkman Special and a seventeen-issue Hawkman series.
* The three-issue Hawkworld "Prestige Format" series by Timothy Truman came out in 1989.

So Shadow War of Hawkman itself came out during Crisis on Infinite Earths.

[Robanker]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

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It's a rare treat when Carter (or Katar, as in this instance) gets love from editorial. As far as 80s ads for comics go, that's a great one.

Hoping we see Hawkman fly again soon.

[Frontier]

It's a rare treat when Carter (or Katar, as in this instance) gets love from editorial. As far as 80s ads for comics go, that's a great one.

Hoping we see Hawkman fly again soon.

It would be kind of surreal to see Carter and Shayera mourn Kendra...

[Robanker]

It would be kind of surreal to see Carter and Shayera mourn Kendra...

Bring Venditti back for a Dark Crisis: Hawkman special!

[Nomads1]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

ShadowWarHawkman.jpg

Howell with Alfredo Alcala as inker. Howell went on to draw the regular, short-lived ongoing. Alacala didn't particpate that time-- and the art suffered for it. This was a post-Crisis series, but they still managed to muck things with Hawkword set in present time.

Yeah, Alcala really made all the difference. Howell without him was kind of cartoony. Didn't fit the character. I did like some of Howell's fill-in work on All-Star Squadron (#27-28 for instance), liked his inks in issues 36,37 (so much so, that i wish they'd put him as Arvell Jones regular inker), and hated others (#40, with inks by Bill Collins. He worked so well with Horberg, not so much with Howell). After that, never warmed up to his style again.

Peace

[nj06]

House ad for The Shadow War of Hawkman. I believe Richard Howell did the art.

ShadowWarHawkman.jpg

Nice find. I hope that with Hawkman's upcoming appearance in Black Adam that DC features him somewhat more. An ongoing is ideal, but a mini or some guest appearances would be nice too.

[Frontier]

Nice find. I hope that with Hawkman's upcoming appearance in Black Adam that DC features him somewhat more. An ongoing is ideal, but a mini or some guest appearances would be nice too.

Maybe then we'll finally get a JSA book .

[signalman112]

Richard Howell House Ad for the 1986 HAWKMAN series.

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[Lucas 35]