Hawkworld

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Hawkworld
Hawkworld # 1
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	1989
Number of issues	Three
Main character(s)	Katar Hol, Shayera Thal, Byth, Paran Katar, Andar Pul
Creative team
Creator(s)	Tim Truman

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Hawkworld was a comic book mini-series from DC Comics that explored the origins of the Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkwoman.

It started out as a three issue limited series by Timothy Truman in 1989, and then it led to an ongoing series that lasted for four years (1990 - 1993) which included 32 issues, along with 3 annuals, by Truman and John Ostrander.

Katar Hol and Shayera Thal were rebooted in the prestige format limited series. In this new version, Hol was a young police officer on the planet Thanagar, and a child of a privileged family. But his homeworld had the policy to conquer and mine other worlds for their resources to maintain its high standard of living, and Hol realized that this was wrong. He rebelled against the system, and was sent into exile. However, 10 years later, he escaped and got the help of Shayera Thal, a young officer from a lower class of society, to uncover and defeat the renegade police captain Byth. As a result, Hol was reinstated in the Wingmen Force and given a new partner, Thal.

Along with its contemporaries (The Man of Steel, Batman: Year One, Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals), Hawkworld was intended to revise DC Universe continuity for the post-Crisis continuity. However, DC editors decided that it was not just an origin story; rather, it was occurring in the present, concurrently with the rest of DC's output. This meant that the Hawks' entire history from the Silver Age of Comic Books onwards had to be disregarded, including their memberships in the Justice League (including his brief membership in Justice League International). This began a series of nonstop retcons to the Hawkman characters that ended with the original Golden Age Hawkman returning in the pages of JSA.