American Update: Hawkman #1 (1964)
*DC: In the wake of the successful Silver Age revivals of Flash and Green Lantern, DC decided to try one of their most popular Golden Age characters, Hawkman, recast in a ‘Space-Age’ mode. This version was Katar Hol, police officer sent from Thanagar to study Earth law-enforcement customs, and his helpmate Hawkgirl was no silly debutante as in the original, but both his colleague in policing and his wife. A husband-and-wife superhero team was virtually unheard-of at that time, and Gardner Fox’s scripting presented the Hawks as a true partnership of equals, with derring-do all over Earth and on other worlds. After two successful runs in Brave & Bold, and a short series in Mystery In Space, Hawkman was awarded his own series, superbly illustrated by Murphy Anderson, and we have the first issue of that ongoing back in stock. This is a cents copy, with no UK price marking, sound and attractive, with good colour, decent interiors and an unmarred cover image, but the cover is detached from the bottom staple, and there is a small lower spine split. GD/VG at £60. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD