Corrupt Chronol Clones Cause Cosmic Crisis

The sinister scientists and aspiring authoritarians, T.O. Morrow and Per Degaton, each stealing time-tech allowing them to pierce back the veil of time. Borrowing from the intellectual advances of other more honorable men, Morrow and Degaton. 

Futurenergy helped formulate five chronal clones based on five love interests of the Justice League, in order to ensnare half of its membership. These were Steve Trevor, Jean Loring, Shayera "Hawkgirl" Hol, Midge, and Mera... whose identical appearance to the originals helped lure Wonder Woman, the Atom, Hawkman, Snapper Carr and Aquaman into kissing them. This caused each Leaguer to fall into a comatose state, leaving the remaining members to face automatons replicating old adversaries of the League. Among these, there was a sixth chronol duplicate who appeared in Doctor Light. Once each served his or her purpose, they were promptly erased from existence, while the original five romantic partners of the League were unaware of what transpired to the loves of their lives.

Temporal causality from Per Degaton's time machine, which he stole from Professor Zee, allowed him to pull sixth supervillains from the late 1940s back to December of 1941. These included Per Degaton himself, Wotan, Professor Zobar Zodiak, Sky Pirate, King Bee and the Monster (a seventh cloned creature, Solomon Grundy, was actually the doppelgänger of the Earth-One Solomon Grundy spawned by the Parasite decades later). Due to chronol energy, these crooks were able to exist simultaneous to their younger selves, who were existing in the same time period unaware of these events transpiring. All of these criminals except the Monster were able to ensnare their prey, leaving all save three members of the Justice Society in a comatose state*.

In other cases involving Morrow and Degaton, there were other time twins spawned by their malicious macinations. Morrow created three chronal clones of Green Lantern and one of himself during his initial appearance. These pawns proved powerless versus the League's Flash and Green Lantern. Degaton's third adventure, which involved nuclear blackmail in 1942, led to four 1980s members of the Justice Society entering that era, while their past selves existed simultaneously and unaware that their future selves were there!

Eventually, thanks to the intervention of the Red Tornado who helped revive the Justice League, and Robotman along with the All-Star Squadron who helped rescue the Justice Society, both Morrow and Degaton were decisively defeated. As with Morrow's clones, Degaton's clones** were each erased from existence as they resumed their lives in the future from which they were originally plucked.

* The ensuing battle between the All-Star Squadron and Justice Society versus Degaton's minions mirrored the battle on another occasion between the Justice League and Queen Bee's Anti-Justice League. 

Twice-Told Tale: Mental Marauders & Menacing Man-Hawks

Among the greatest inventions of planet Thanagar, besides the discovery of anti-gravitational metal, are devices known as the Absorbacron and the Electromizer. These invasive mechanisms could mentally augment those connected to them, mentally implanting potentiallyl so vast quantities of information into an individual's brain. This allowed an individual to rapidly assimilate entire languages as well as culture information, which Thanagarians could use to integrate into societies alien to their own.

The Absorbacron was originally developed on Thanagar-One by the initially benevolent inhabitants of that world. When the malicous Man-Hawks invaded and pillaged their planet, a select number of Thanagarians were tasked and trained to become the Wingmen, a global police force employing the anti-gravity belts and winged harnesses developed by Paran Hol and used by his son Katar. Eventually, Katar and his wife Shayera were commissioned to travel to Earth-One, where they would learn the policing procedures of humanity as Hawkman and Hawkwoman, a concept foreign to those of Thanagar who had previously never experienced crime on their world.

The Electromizer was originally developed on Thanagar-Two by the thoroughly malevolent Vulture King and his fellow Vultures, who sought to reclaim their people’s former glory as they ventured to Earth-Two in an attempt to conquer this world. Their avian ancestors failed to conquer humanity during the ages of Egyptian Prince Khufu and English protector the Silent Knight. Now equipped with winged harnesses enhancing their speed and maneuverability, Vulture King's minions sought to enslave human-kind into their forces.

When Thanagar-One experienced a devastating global Equalizing Plague which crippled their citizenry, followed by a conquest of the alien dictator Hyathis, the Thanagarians abandoned their Wingmen aliases and began a Shadow War on Earth-One. This led to repeated conflicts with Hawkman and Hawkwoman. 

Earth-Two experienced an invasion of Vulture King and his minions, following their fellow advanced Vulture scout Aiymer’s arrival, who had clashed with Doll Man years earlier. Although initially successful in forcibly recruiting residents of Earth into their winged forces, the Vultures were eventually defeated by Wonder Woman, the Justice Society teammate of Hawkman and longterm friend of his wife Hawkgirl.

Just as Thanagarian Vultures used the Electromizer to mentally manipulate humans, who wore enlarged bird-like winged suits, Thanagarian Shadow Warriors used the Absorbacron to mentally manipulate their former flying foes, the Man-Hawks, in an attempt to control Gotham City during the period of the Convengence (when that city and others of various universes was placed on an alien world for a year). Katar and Shayera defeated both Man-Hawks and Shadow Warriors.

Terrific Trios: Flying Furies & Mighty Mites

Within both the Justice League and Justice Society were informal sub-groups, where likeminded members formed close bonds with one another. Examples of these included Green Lantern and the Flash, and the World’s Finest Team of Superman and Batman. Then was also a terrific trio, the flying furies Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and their pal the Atom.

On Earth-Two in 1940, Al “Atom” Pratt and Carter “Hawkman” Hall were founding members of the Justice Society of America. Decades later on Earth-One, Ray “Atom” Palmer and Katar “Hawkman” Hol were the second and third members inducted to the Justice League of America following its founding. Early adventures of these dual duos later included Shiera Hall and Shayera Hol aka  Hawkgirl and Hawkwoman, respectively.

Another triumphant triad on Earth-Four were the first to call themselves the Sentinels of Justice. These  included the gliding guy Helio, mind-over-matter maiden Mentalia, and powerful paragon Brute. Originally a musical group, these lads and lass were given devises allowing them to either defy gravity or gain superhuman strength. After a series of adventures, they apparently retired, and later the Sentinels of Justice consisted of Captain Atom, Blue Beetle, Nightshade and Question.

On Earth-S, the dynamic duo of Bulletman and Bulletgirl… their world’s Hawks… never had occasion to meet their planet’s version of the Atoms, Captain Kid/Courage. Instead, another trio in the Lieutenants Marvel filled that role as predecessors of the later incarnation of their world’s premier team, the Squadron of Justice.

Sinister Shadow Squads Fight Feathered Furies

Carl Banks and Ian Karkull both used technology developed by others to become a pair of problematic Shadow-Thieves who plagued not only their arch-foes, Hawkman and Doctor Fate, but their enemies' teammates in the Justice League and Justice Society. 

When Banks was offered an early release from prison if he accepted being a test subject on a government sponsored space flight, he was recruited orbiting above Earth-One to join the Thanagarian Queen Hyathis' , where Carl would mass produce his Dimensiometer. Elite Thanagarian used these gadgets as the Shadow Squad, Hyathis' collective army launched an attack on the neighboring planet of Rann-One, then ruled by the Justice League's old foe and Hyathis' adversary Kanjar Ro. With Adam Strange of Rann,  Hawkman and Hawkgirl aka Katar and Shayera Hol helped end the war of those worlds, ending with their banishment from Thanagar.

Karkull discovered the ancient advancements of the Saharan city of Ragnor, which including the ability to transform oneself into a shadow. It was later revealed that a ship from Thanagar-Two crashlanded on Earth-Two during the time of the Pharoahs, with the Thanagarians anti-gravitational nth metal being adopted by the Egyptian Prince Khufu. The Thanagarian Birdmen then living in Ragnor once battled Khufu's descendant Brian "Silent Knight" Kent, and centuries later another in the line of Khufu named Carter Hall utilized this Nth metal as the Hawkman.

Confronting Doctor Fate, who intercepted his henchmen in shadow form, Karkull himself used the device to become a shadow which the Doctor then trapped him in for eternity. Once he gained the ability to control his shadow-nature, he plucked various individuals from the future of Earth-Two in their own shadow-forms, through which he could see the present-day world through their eyes. Collecting them together to gain greater power, Ian recruited a variety of supervillians to assassinate the current and future presidents of the United States. Members of the Justice Society successfully thwarted the villains' schemes, culminating in their attacking Karkull, causing him to fracture into several shadows.

Years after the Rann-Thanagar War, the Thanagar Shadow-Squad now sought both revenge against Katar and Shayera, as well as to steal their anti-gravitational devices. It seems that once Hyathis departed their planet after she was deposed as its ruler, the people of that world succumbed to the effects of the Equalizing Plague which she had cured them of earlier. This plague caused all Thanagarians residing on that world to be mediocre, without exceptional physical nor mental attributes that had elevated their civilization. The Shadow War they initiated, using the Absorbascon to tap into the minds of humanity, caused Hawkman and Hawkgirl to pull away from their fellow Leaguers who were susceptible to its effects. The Hols eventually triumphed over the Shadow-Squad.

Decades earlier, the after-effects of Karkull's body exploding, releasing his shadow-force captives, caused the Justice Society and its close friends present to gain added life. This gave Hawkman, Hawkgirl and their allies added youth and vitality for decades. The future humans who’s shadows were stolen probably included Andre Voisin, Olive Morell, a Mongolian bandit, a window washer and other individuals in early 1966 by the evil ruler of the psycho-matter universe of Dis (in Showcase #61). These became their world’s unwitting version of the Shadow-Squad, although their sacrifice in decreased lifespan inadvertently helped their world by giving its protectors in the Justice Society the strength to protect Earth-Two from a variety of threats from space in the years to come*.

Regrettably, just as the former Wingmen of Thanagar-One “lost their wings” and their way when the Shadow Squad took its place when Hyathis’ defeat motivates them to attack Earth-One, so too had the ancient Wingmen of Thanagar-Two who settled Ragnor on Earth-Two had long since faded away. A new group of Thanagarians led by Vulture King tried to invade Earth-Two in the 1940s, this time quashed by Wonder Woman. In the end, their legacy was carried out by the Hawkmen and their wife’s the Hawkgirls/Hawkwomen.

* This dark radiation also influenced the genetics of Alan “Green Lantern” Scott’s son Todd Rice, who could transform his body into a shadow form like Karkull’s.

Feathered Furies Flee Friendly Fighting Forces

Katar Hol along with his wife Shayera were tasked with observing law enforcement protocols of humanity on Earth-One, and reporting back their findings to their native world Thanagar. Both were equipped with anti-gravity belts along with wings to guide their flight. For the next three years while living in Midway City, the pair adopted to aliases, their civilian identities as Carter and Shayera Hall and their costumed aliases of Hawkman and Hawkgirl. As the Halls, they operated Midway curator and co-curator of Midway City Museum, where they learned of ancient weaponry used by humans which they then used in their heroic careers on a number of adventures.

Eventually, the married couple were noticed by the Justice League of America, who initially invited just Hawkman to join their ranks. For the next few years, he would assist this team on various cases... common and cosmic... with his wife on occasion accompanying him on these. Katar became an integral part of the team over time, and later met his counterpart of Earth-Two, together battling Solomon Grundy. However, when the two Hawkmen's groups next met to tackle the Iron Hand on Carter's world, it was only Katar who was present!

Carter Hall along with his wife Shiera decided to adopt costumed aliases as Hawkman and Hawkgirl, inspired by memories of ancestors Khufu and Shiera of ancient Egypt. Both were equipped with nth metal anti-gravity belts along with wings to guide their flight. As part-time archaeologists for a New York City museum, the pair used a variety of ancient weaponry which they used in their heroic identities.

From the very beginning, the original Hawkman was a founding member of the Justice Society of America, serving as the team's third and permanent chairman. For the next few years, he would assist this team on various cases... common and cosmic... with his wife on occasion joining him. Eleven years later, things changed.

Framed for international espionage and suspected of treason while attempting to capture a mysterious benefactor of their satellite headquarters turned prison, the Justice Society led by Hawkman refused a request by a Senate joint hearing to reveal their secret identities in order to clear their names. Instead, all active members except Wonder Woman retired .

After donning his mask and wings along with teammate Atom while visiting their pal Edmund Blake, Hawkman and his fellow Justice Society members ended their decade long retirement during a battle with Vandal Savage. For the next several years until 1971, Hawkman was front and center in the team's affairs. However, in June of 1972. the Hall's young godson Norda arrived at their home, after having been injured during his trip to America. Tending to the lad and returning him to Feithera, this explains why the Society's leader wasn't present during its biggest crisis, as Earth-Two was in the nebula grip of Iron Hand.

In 1974, Katar and Shayera were called back to Thanagar to rejoin their fellow Wingmen, reporting on what they had learned. However, upon arriving on their homeworld, the Hols discovered that the planet's civilization was struck down with an "equalizing plague", causing all of them to be ordinary and average... and thus stagnant as a society. Seeking a cure for this, Katar returned to his adopted world and rejoined the Justice League to enlist their aid in defeating the alien Equilizer that had spread this plague.

Soon after, Shayera recovered from this condition as had the rest of Thanagar, thanks to a remedy provided by the alien dictator known as Hyathis. However, Hyanthis used this cure to enslave the people under her rule. An interplanetary war soon followed with she and her Thanagarians, versus their neighboring planet Rann, led by her old foe Kanjar Ro, who had recently conquered it as well.

After a brief war between the two worlds, a peaceful detente resulted thanks to the intervention of Katar, Shayera and Rann's  heroes Adam and Alanna Strange. However, as the Hols did not support Hyanthis' illegitimate rule of their homeworld, they were exiled back to Earth-One. 

Still, the Justice League were there as a support them, ultimately inviting Hawkgirl to join them. She would later self-identify as Hawkwoman, showing her equal stature to that of her husband. Together they were the only husband and wife members of the League.

A few years later, Hyathis would be overthrown, although a military dictatorship followed on Thanagar due to a vacuum of leadership. Again, the Hols could not support this new facsist state of their birth world. They would later face an a Thanagarian invasion force on Earth-One, backed with technology provided by their old nemesis Shadow-Thief, which they repelled.

Carter and Shiera who found a home with fellow "birdmen" in the arctic circle's Feithera as well as within the Society. Katar and Shayera sadly found themselves alienated both from the "wingmen" of their former home, and found themselves no longer members of the League following its dissolution by its chairman Aquaman following a Martian invasion. 

Still, in both cases, the Hols and Halls had one another to draw strength from one another, through both good times and bad. These twin couples became the standard for marital unity which they fellow superheroes and superheroines sought to imitate when eventually wedding their own future marriage mates.

The Hawkwomen, Their Hawkmen, and Justice Denied

While receiving top billing of the pair, the Hawkmen were only one half of the Winged Warrior duo that included the ladies in their lives, alternatively known as Hawkgirl and Hawkwoman. Even though each pair shared in scores of adventures together, when it came to the teams the Hawkmen were a part of, there wasn't room for their fairer half.

On Earth-One, this was mystifying, given the fact that Katar and Shayera Hol were sent there from their homeworld of Thanagar in order to study police techniques of that planet's humans. Indeed, both were accomplished law enforcement officers, yet when the call came for a new recruit into the Justice League, only Katar was invited to the predominant "boys club". A no duplication of powers rule was in effect, but years later disgarded after several times wherein Hawkwoman proved her value, and joined them.

On Earth-Two, Carter Hall was the established superhero, when his girlfriend Shiera Sanders asked to be trained as his assistant. So when Hawkman was recruited as a charter member of the Justice Society, perhaps he felt that Sheira wasn't qualified as yet. However, after Hawkgirl's acceptance into the All-Star Squadron as a full member, despite her petitions Hawkman did not advocate her inclusion into his main team.

From words uttered by Katar to Shayera, there was a deep bond that he refused to break for any cause or anyone, and so fought for to be added to the League. Although Carter had as great a love for Shiera, it evidently wasn't strong enough to allow her into the Society... of which he was leader! A stark contrast between the Hawkmen of two worlds!

So Silver Scarab was right and Green Arrow was wrong, Carter not Katar is the worst!

Leaping Lemurian Linking Legendary Ladies

Like Atlantis, the civilization of Lemuria also sank beneath the waves of the ocean. Although while Atlantis was now at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Lemuria was beneath the Pacific Ocean on the opposite side of the Earth. While the Atlantean city-state of Poseidonis and Tritonis of Earth-One and Aurania and Venturia of Earth-Two had notable modern day histories with connections to the Aquaman and Wonder Woman of each Earth, very little is known of the twin Lemurians.

The first recorded contact between surface dwellers and remnants of Lemuria were in November 1977 and December 1976 on Earths One and Two, respectively. While one Lemuria was still a vibrant society under the sea, the other was a long lost culture. The first Lemurians were benevolent, the other Lemurians were malevolent. And each had connections to the women in the lives of a Justice Leaguer and Justice Socialite.

On Earth-One, Ray "Atom" Palmer's fiancée Jean Loring had experience repeated psychosis from extra-terrestrial experiences, the latest occurring after she was kidnapped by the villain T.O. Morrow which brought her to his alien world. Tapping into mental abilities, Jean teleported to various points across the universe, with the Atom in pursuit, until she finally arrived at Lemuria. There the leading blue-skinned scientists from that city were able to stabilize her condition, and eventually Jean regained her sanity.

On Earth-Two, Carter "Hawkman" Hall's wife Shiera "Hawkgirl" Hall was kidnapped by the recently revived Lemurian known as Zanadu. This power-mad being claimed to have wiped out Lemuria, and sought to tap into his mental bond with Shiera to allow him to conquer the world. The Justice Society intervened, saving Sheira and ensnaring Zanadu in amber from whence he had been imprisoned for centuries.

While Zanadu claimed to have extinguished Lemuria, yellow-skinned warriors appearing similar to him were led by the King of the Caverns when he enconuntered Red Torpedo and the Mermazons in 1941! The arch-enemies of these Lemurians were the Mermazons, a warrior race of women like the Amazons of Paradise Island. Led by Queen Klitra, these Femazons allied with Red Torpedo in capturing the Cavern King and his human ally Black Shark.

Back on Earth-One, the Amazons of the Amazon River were a tribe of Amazonians who broke off from Queen Hippolyta centuries ago, forging their own life in South America half a world away. Led by Queen Atalanta, these Brazilian Amazons initially were adversarial towards Wonder Woman but soon forged an alliance with her. There is no record of these Amazons encountering their world's Lemurians, as had their Earth-Two Mermazon counterparts and their Lemurians, although given their peaceful nature there would seemingly be no conflict between these two races.

Fawcett Fridays:Married Men and Maidens in Mid-Air

The romance of Superman and Lois Lane is, indeed, an epic one. As is the tragic attraction that draws Batman and Catwoman towards the other. And even when their girlfriend knows from the beginning is real identity, as happened with Jay "Flash" Garrick with his lady Joan and Ralph "Elongated Man" Dibny with his lass Sue, there is an even more appealing coupling. That would be the crimefighting dating duo. And we have three prime examples today.

Katar Hol, Carter Hall and Jim Barr first discovered the miraculous anti-gravitational properties of  heir anti-gravity metal belt, nth metal belt and gravity regulator helmet respectively. Katar and Jim were police men and used these devices to track down evil culprits that alluded traditional law enforcement authorities. Carter and Jim were a pair of scientists with a thirst for balance in the natural order around them. And Katar and Carter were two who thrived on communing with avian creation whose air they shared.

But there was something more these three men shared... the desire for companionship. And so, when Jim's girlfriend Susan Kent... also the daughter of his boss Sergeant Kent... desired to join him in his heroic crusade... he bequeathed her a duplicate helmet and similar costume. And thus, Bulletman and Bulletgirl were born, having several adventures throughout the 1940's before Doctor Sivana's Suspendium caught them and their fellow costumed crusaders of Earth-S in suspended animation until the 1970's. At that time, they joined the Squadron of Justice, although they were earlier members of the Crime Crusaders Club.

Carter and his fiancee Shiera Saunders repeatedly found themselves in adventures that called for his alter ego of Hawkman, and eventually temptation caused Hall to create another pair of wings and nth metal belt for his future bride. And thus, Hawkwoman was born, although she soon reverted to the identity of Hawkgirl. Although she never joined his team, the Justice Society of America, which she occasionally expressed interest in... she became an integral part of Earth-Two's All-Star Squadron. Together, these two Hawks also operated through the 1940's side-by-side on several cases. Eventually, she retired and never donned her costume again, and she took on a new role as mother to their son Hector.

Then there was Shayera Thal, who was a police woman on the planet Thanagar and also Katar's ally, both of whom tracked down a criminal to Earth-One. On this world, they adopted the names Hawkman and Hawkgirl, although she eventually changed hers to Hawkwoman. Around this time, she also finally gained the attention of her now husband's teammates on the Justice League of America, of which she soon joined. Although the pair had scores of adventures themselves, at times there were rifts between the two as political intrigue from their home world at times threatened their own lives. Nevertheless, the ultimately remained paired side-by side, as had the other two couples who were their counterparts.

Wonder Women: The Worlds' Greatest (more or less) Heroines

While definitely superheroes outnumbered superheroines throughout the Multiverse, several notable women carved out names from themselves on Earths One and two, showing that they matched the mettle of their male peers. Preeminent among these was the Wonder Women and the Black Canarys, who stood on their own before joining their Worlds Greatest Heroes... the Justice League and Justice Society. And lest we forget, the Last Daughters of Krypton, Kara Zor-El and Zor-L aka Supergirl and Power Girl, proved equal to their more famous cousins... the Supermen.

And then there were the others, the lesser lights, who reflected the heroic standards set by the above fabulous females while carving out their own costumed careers. Many of these joined the New Teen Titans of Earth-One or the female version of the Justice Society of Earth-Two, while others stood apart trying to forge their own path within the metahuman community. This is by no means a comprehensive list of all those legendary ladies, as some would exist in other times, on other worlds, and under other circumstances. For the purpose of this piece, however, we are focusing on nine of these glorious gals whom we had previously considered although this time we do so more extensively.

- The Donna Troy of both worlds, on Earth-One she would become Wonder Girl the adopted Amazonian and on Earth-Two she became a Holliday Girl who once wore her college's guardian, Wonder Woman's costume.

- Jean Loring and Mary James who each had significant relationships with their world's respective Atoms, even though there were ups and downs, with Loring becoming the evil "Queen Jean" on occasion and James becoming a female Atom.

- Both Myra Masons, whether as the temporarily superpowered girlfriend of Space Ranger or the one-time female version of boyfriend Doctor Mid-Nite, were faithful companions to the men in their lives.

- Hawkwoman and Hawkgirl aka Shiera Hall, the loving wives of the Hawkmen who shared their high-flying adventures, with the former joining the Justice League with her husband and the latter the All-Star Squadron with her boyfriend.

- Raven and Clarice Winston, wearing hooded and caped costumes while being protected by shadowy
guardians during their encounters with evil over the years.

- Koriand'r aka Kori "Starfire" Anders and Doris "Starwoman" Lee, each wielding energy powered by the stars alongside their fellow heroines, and more importantly dazzling their boyfriends Robin and Starman, respectively.

- Tara Marcov was the illegitimate daughter of the King of Marcovia, who was given powers over the earth which led to her adopting the alter ego of Terra. Her counterpart was the second girlfriend of Wesley Dodds aka Sandman, adopting a female version of his costume. Both women had short careers.

- Amy Winston who was the Princess Amethyst and Peachy Pet Thunder who was also a girl with grand aspirations. Eventually, both would gained power and moved to new dimensional worlds for true love.

- Mysa Nal and Inza Cramer Nelson* were redheads with access to ancient energies from alien worlds allowing themselves to become among the most powerful of their peers.

Another heroine who was an unofficial member of the Teen Titans was Kole Weathers. A mutant whose scientist parents imbued in her the ability to weave silicon crystals in various shapes, she aided the Titans and fell in love with one of their members in Joseph “Jericho” Wilson. She perished attempting to protect fellow heroes during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Her counterpart was Gerta VonGunther, the daugher of former criminal scientist Paula Von Gunthner, who had been the arch-foe of Earth-Two's Wonder Woman. Once Gerta had been liberated from Nazi captivity and returned to her mother, Paula renounced her evil ways, and both mother and daughter moved to Paradise Island. There, Gerta began experimenting with germs turned into insects and creating mermaids out of sharks, although such experiments were dangerous. Gerta finally renounced her troublesome research for the safety of humanity.

The New Teen Titans would typify a balanced approach where both genders were concerned, as over time their membership would have notable females in the midst proving invaluable to their masculine comrades. So too would the Legion of Super-Heroes in Earth-One's future and the All-Star Squadron of Earth-Two's past, although the aforementioned Justice League and Justice Society sadly only had a handful of heroines throughout their history, although each would recruit non-member heroines from time to time to aid them in their efforts throughout the years.

* Inza also inherited a green skinned persona from her ancestor Ezra Hawkins aka Sir Traytor. This version of her spawned a woman named Jealous that battled her husband Kent “Doctor Fate” Nelson during a battle with a Lord of Chaos. This lethal osu was the counterpart of Supergirl’s evil clone Satan Girl.

Titans' Tenures on Terrific Teams: High-Flying Hawks

Although the Hawkmen were fixtures of their world's foremost fighters of felons, their histoies with these teams were different indeed. On Earth-One, Hawkman was the third member to be voted to the Justice League, after which he aided them until he and his wife left for their homeworld Thangar during a crisis there, though they returned shortly thereafter. After years of aiding the League on a few cases, Hawkgirl was finally elected as a member... of which her actual adventure were eratic at best. And on Earth-Two, its Hawkman was an actual founding member of the Justice Society of America, and soon thereafter became its third and then permanent chairman. His wife Hawkgirl aided the Society from time-to-time, although she was never considered for membership despite her occasional protests to her husband. When that team was revived years later, she at that point retired to raise their son Hector, although her husband continued to be the leader from then on.



Fawcett's Finest: Flying Females

Typically, when a hero has found the template for success, others will be created to follow his winning ways. Among the first to replicate a mighty male are fearless females. Leading the charge in this category are Shiera Hall and Susan Barr, who would be better known as Hawkgirl and Bulletgirl. Although they began as the love interests of Carter Hall and Jim Barr while these gents were already clad in their crusading costumes as Hawkman and Bulletman.

There were two Shiera Halls, on Earth-Two she was born Sheira Sanders and on Earth-One she was originally Shayera Thal, before marrying Carter and Katar respectively. While Sanders was a millionare dubutante turned adventuress, Thal was a policewoman right from the start. As for Susan, she was the daughter of a policeman, hence her acquaintence with police scientist Barr. Early in their future husbands' careers, these gals adopted aliases reflecting their male partners' identities, and earned their own reputations as top flight heroines. Eventually, they were also accepted into their world's premier superhero teams (well, Shayera and Susan, anyway) and met as members of the Justice League and Squadron of Justice to combat King Kull's attack on Earth-S.

Female Facsimile Fest: The Hawkwomen

We couldn't launch into our Female Facsimile Fest without the original upon which the template was made... Hawkgirl, of course!

Introduced shortly after Hawkman's golden age debut, in her costumed alias that is (since she was romantically tied to him since his first tale), and reappearing in a new form as his partner from day one in the silver age.

Shayera Thal Hol and Shiera Sanders Hall were world's apart, and not such parallel worlds. Shayera was a native of Thanagar of the Polaris star system who came to Earth-One along with her husband Carter as law enforcement officials studying that world's police techniques. Adopting the civilian identity of Shiera Hall, she assisted her husband at Midway City museum while using the heroic alias of Hawkgirl. Gaining knowledge of Earth via a device known as the Absorbascon, she was able to assimilate into her new planet's culture and eventually joined the Justice League of America. Later she upgraded her alias as the Hawkwoman.

Sheila Sanders was a rich debutante who fell in love with fellow millionaire Carter Hall, both gained knowledge of ancient Egyptian culture on Earth-Two through a crystal dagger tied to Thanagar. Gaining knowledge and, through that, a thirst for adventure, she soon donned the costume of Hawkwoman. Shortly thereafter she renamed herself Hawkgirl, and joined the All-Star Squadron alongside her husband. The pair had a son named Hector who would honor their legacy as the Silver Scarab, and a godson named Norda who would become winged warrior Northwind.

On both worlds, these ladies fought for the attention of their boyfriends from female rivals Mavis Trent and Ione Craig, and fought to be treated equal to husbands among the superhero community. In the end, proved that they deserved equal billing with, and the undying affection of, their hawk hubbies.

Cookie-Cutter-Counterparts: The Hawkmen

On the surface it would definitely appear that this is exactly what the Hawkmen were... cut from the same cloth. The Winged Warriors definitely mirrored one another in various ways during the prestigious careers. Indeed they have several similarities such as:

• same secret identity (Carter Hall... but not always) and public alias (Hawkman)
• girlfriend/partner named the same (Hawkgirl/Shiera... although not from the beginning)
• same pants/boots/chest straps and helmet (the latter for only a brief period, however)
• working in the museum/ancient artifacts field (though both had earlier careers)
• members of their world's premier teams (Justice League/Society of America)

However, they had several differences. The silver age Hawkman was originally alien police officer Katar Hol sent to Earth-One, while the golden age Hawkman was a lifelong citizen  and millionaire inventor of Earth-Two. Katar gained knowledge of Earth history from a device known as the absorbacson, Carter learned of the ancient Egyptian life of Prince Knafu (the counterpart of Earth-One's Prince Raman, incidentally) through a crystal dagger. The original Hawkman liked to change his headgear often, the other not so much.

Katar's bride from planet Thanagar was initially named Shayera Thal, and Carter's wife was born Shiera Sanders. While Shayera started out as Hawkgirl and later changed her name to Hawkwoman, Shiera debuted as Hawkwoman then soon after settled into the alias of Hawkgirl. While both ladies participated in cased involving the Justice League and Justice Society, for which their husbands were members, only Shayera gained membership into her world's League with Shiera only occasionally petitioning for membership into the Society. Eventually she would retire to become a mother while her counterpart kept on going.

In the final analysis, both pairs of Feathered Furies were courageous and natural leaders who inspired their friends and brought fear to their assembled foes as well!

Hawkman's Hatchery of Hate: Cloaks and Fadeway Men

When Anton Lamont first appeared in Detective Comics back in 1979, perhaps readers had assumed this was the first appearance of the cloak of Cagliostro. In fact, it was not for in Flash Comics #82 in 1982, an Earth-Two twin of that same cloak first appeared. In that instance, it was Jabez Malone who succumbed to the power exuding from it. Allowing its wearer to disappear, with the Earth-One version providing an additional attribute of dimensional travel, both Jabez and Anton faced their world's Hawkmen. After one such clash, Jabez retired while archeologist turned criminal Anton returned to plague the winged warrior and his pal Batman. Not a good idea.

Much like a certain Gentleman name Jim Craddock, a charlatan with a flair for the flamboyant, there were many parallels between the rogues gallery of Carter Hall and Katar Hol. While Craddock originated on Earth-Two and, after four battled versus that world’s Hawkman and Hawkgirl aka Carter and Sheila Hall during the late 1940s.  This so-called “Gentleman Ghost” had subsequent clashes with Superman as well as Batman and Wonder Woman in 1951 following the dissolution of the Justice Society, which had been led by Hawkman.

Craddock then journeyed to Earth-One to battle the Thanagarian Hawkman and Hawkwoman aka Katar and Shayera Hol. Following three encounters with the Winged Warriors, he shifted his focus to Gotham City where he repeatedly matched wits with a younger Batman. 

James never had opportunity to meet his actual Earth-One counterpart, Frenchman Doctor Archille Destinee aka Doctor Destiny and the Phantom of Washington. Destinee had ties to ancient Egypt and battled Metamorpho in the late 1970s. Unlike Craddock, the Phantom would ultimately perish persisting in his problematic pursuits.