The planet Thanagar-One orbited the star Polaris in the Alpha-Centari System, a world that reached the pinnacle of peace for over two hundred years. No longer in need of a monarch or sole-authoritarian, this world was ruled by a benevolent council, and guarded by their Wingmen. These flying foot-soldiers were tasked with dealing first with invading Man-Hawks from outer space, and later thrill thieves.
One of these, the criminal known as Byth, was followed to Earth-One by a pair of Wingmen... Katar and Shayera Hol. Assuming the masked idenities of Hawkman and Hawkgirl, aided in their winged flight by the anti-gravity metal discovered by Katar's father Paran, the pair captured the shape-shifting Byth and stayed on Earth to study its crimefighting techniques.
During their time on Earth-One, Hawkman joined the Justice League of America and the married winged warriors made friends with fellow superheroes as well as residents of Midway City, where they made a home as museum curator Carter Hall along with his assistant Shiera. Meanwhile, the political climate was gradually changing on Thanagar, due to various factors which hardened its citizens.
This began when the Thanagarian fleet and its Wingmen expanded across the galaxy and came into conflict with the Infinite Empire. This alien armada decisively defeated the Thanagarians, and false evidence indicates that Katar has betrayed his peoples’ location to the Empire. Although revealing the true betrayer and helping locate the means to neutralized the Empire, Katar and Shayera found a permanent rift between they and their fellow Wingmen. This would be exploited later when alien Empress Hyanthis cured the Thanagarians from an Equalizing Plague which crippled them, turning their planet into her dictatorship.
Since the Carter Hall native to Earth-Two developed the nth metal (his universe’s version of anti-gravity metal) belt with wings concept, the residents of Thanagar-Two did not form a Wingmen force. However, there was a corresponding society of winged warriors originating from the hidden Greenland city of Feithera. There, human-bird hybrids led by Worla of various types co-existed in harmony with one another, and welcomed Hawkman and Hawkgirl as honorary citizens.
There was a small city of underground birdmen on Earth-One whom Gorilla Grodd temporarily controlled, but they were limited in number and only of one type of hybrid compared to the Feitherans. It was indicated that Worla’s people originated from the Egyptian area centuries ago as had the ancestors of Carter and Shiera Hall. Later tales allude to an ancient Thanagarian having in fact crash landed on Earth-Two, and may have introduced Egyptian Prince Khufu to nth metal which his descendant Carter rediscovered in the 20th century.
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