Post by HoM on Aug 20, 2009 20:27:05 GMT -5
HAWKMAN
Secret Files, Updated!
Secret Identity: Carter Hall
Known Former Lives: Pharaoh Khufu Ma-at Ka-Taar, Marcus Falco (the Golden Gladiator), Jon Rikkson (the Viking Prince), Sir Brian of Kent (the Silent Knight), Jon Valor (the Black Pirate), Hannibal Hawkes (Nighthawk)
First DC2 Appearance: The Immortal Legend of Hawkman # 0 (as Prince Khufu), The Immortal Legend of Hawkman #1 (as Carter Hall)
Status: Hero
Base of Operations: JSA Museum, Manhattan, and Midway Museum, Midway City.
Occupation: Curator and Field Agent of the Midway Museum, Midway City. Itinerant Lecturer.
HT: 6’2
WT: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blond
Powers and Abilities: While Professor Hall possess no innate superpowers himself, his golden Nth Metal amulet allows its wearer not only the power of flight, but also enhances all natural senses, increases physical strength to an extraordinary level and even bestows a limited amount of invulnerability. Hawkman also possesses the Claw of Horus, an Nth Metal artifact of significant but uncertain mystical power (though it is known to have overpowered the Orb of Ra), and to focus the innate abilities of the Nth Metal. The full psycho-receptive abilities of Thanagarian Nth Metal have yet to be fully plumbed, but it has been shown that long-term exposure to it can slow aging, bestow limited telepathy (especially to others with Nth Metal exposure) and may be the catalyst of certain physical metamorphoses.
History: Carter Hall was the privileged son of old New York Knickerbocker aristocracy and a respected academician when in the Spring of 1938 he received a summons from an old friend on an archaeological dig in Egypt--- the tomb of the forgotten Pharaoh Khufu had been found at last.
Traveling to Egypt, Carter Hall discovered that he was the latest reincarnation of the long-dead heroic Champion of Horus, and that his immortal beloved Princess Chay-Ara had also been reincarnated as opera ingénue Shiera Saunders. The two became embroiled in a millennia old drama of murder and revenge with their eternal foe, Hath-Set! Powered by the Nth Metal artifacts of an ancient Thanagarian starship recovered from Khufu’s tomb, Carter Hall took up the mantle of the Champion of Horus and became the hero known as Hawkman!
Hawkman became a charter member and first Chairman of the world’s first super-team, the legendary Justice Society of America, fighting alongside his wife Hawkgirl. In the course of his career, Hawkman faced, among others, the Gentleman Ghost of Bleakhill Manor, the mesmerizing Thought Terror, the fearsome Lion-Mane, and the evil druid Dr. Trygg!
Not much is known of the later career of the Winged Avenger. He was considered an ally of the lost civilization of Feithera, and may even have visited the planet Thanagar during the darkest days of the Apocalypse of the Seven Devils. It is known that he is revered there as the reincarnation of their greatest hero, Kar’ Taral--- and that he fathered a Thanagarian son named Katar Hol.
In 1951, the Halls were challenged once more by their nemesis Hath-Set (reincarnated as the villainous Anton Hastor), and disappeared, seemingly never to be heard from again. More than fifty years passed.
Then Katar Hol achieved his Thanagarian maturity and came to Earth to seek out his father. Working with Carter’s godson Norda of Feithera and Shiera’s grandniece Kendra Saunders, the new Hawkgirl, Katar set out to discovery the truth of that fateful day in 1951. Their quest led them--- and Helene Astar, Anton Hastor’s daughter--- to an abandon Nazi stronghold in the Bavarian Alps, the scene of Hath-set’s final gambit. Hastor had perished in the decades’ old conflagration, and Shiera had given her life to help Carter put an end to the doomsday their immortal enemy had summoned, but as a result, Carter had become trapped in a warp-field of Nth Force. Freed from stasis, he faced a world devoid of his immortal beloved and enemy both.
In order to give his life purpose again, Carter Hall joined with Jay Garrick and Alan Scott to reform the Justice Society of America. Calling together old and new allies, the team debut during the “Justice League versus America” crisis, helping to turn the tide against Starro and the Secret Society of Super Villains. Unanimously chosen as their first new chairman (a position he held for most of the team’s original tenure), Hawkman leads a true society of heroes, bound by family ties and heroic legacies, into a new Golden Age.
Secret Files, Updated!
Secret Identity: Carter Hall
Known Former Lives: Pharaoh Khufu Ma-at Ka-Taar, Marcus Falco (the Golden Gladiator), Jon Rikkson (the Viking Prince), Sir Brian of Kent (the Silent Knight), Jon Valor (the Black Pirate), Hannibal Hawkes (Nighthawk)
First DC2 Appearance: The Immortal Legend of Hawkman # 0 (as Prince Khufu), The Immortal Legend of Hawkman #1 (as Carter Hall)
Status: Hero
Base of Operations: JSA Museum, Manhattan, and Midway Museum, Midway City.
Occupation: Curator and Field Agent of the Midway Museum, Midway City. Itinerant Lecturer.
HT: 6’2
WT: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Blond
Powers and Abilities: While Professor Hall possess no innate superpowers himself, his golden Nth Metal amulet allows its wearer not only the power of flight, but also enhances all natural senses, increases physical strength to an extraordinary level and even bestows a limited amount of invulnerability. Hawkman also possesses the Claw of Horus, an Nth Metal artifact of significant but uncertain mystical power (though it is known to have overpowered the Orb of Ra), and to focus the innate abilities of the Nth Metal. The full psycho-receptive abilities of Thanagarian Nth Metal have yet to be fully plumbed, but it has been shown that long-term exposure to it can slow aging, bestow limited telepathy (especially to others with Nth Metal exposure) and may be the catalyst of certain physical metamorphoses.
History: Carter Hall was the privileged son of old New York Knickerbocker aristocracy and a respected academician when in the Spring of 1938 he received a summons from an old friend on an archaeological dig in Egypt--- the tomb of the forgotten Pharaoh Khufu had been found at last.
Traveling to Egypt, Carter Hall discovered that he was the latest reincarnation of the long-dead heroic Champion of Horus, and that his immortal beloved Princess Chay-Ara had also been reincarnated as opera ingénue Shiera Saunders. The two became embroiled in a millennia old drama of murder and revenge with their eternal foe, Hath-Set! Powered by the Nth Metal artifacts of an ancient Thanagarian starship recovered from Khufu’s tomb, Carter Hall took up the mantle of the Champion of Horus and became the hero known as Hawkman!
Hawkman became a charter member and first Chairman of the world’s first super-team, the legendary Justice Society of America, fighting alongside his wife Hawkgirl. In the course of his career, Hawkman faced, among others, the Gentleman Ghost of Bleakhill Manor, the mesmerizing Thought Terror, the fearsome Lion-Mane, and the evil druid Dr. Trygg!
Not much is known of the later career of the Winged Avenger. He was considered an ally of the lost civilization of Feithera, and may even have visited the planet Thanagar during the darkest days of the Apocalypse of the Seven Devils. It is known that he is revered there as the reincarnation of their greatest hero, Kar’ Taral--- and that he fathered a Thanagarian son named Katar Hol.
In 1951, the Halls were challenged once more by their nemesis Hath-Set (reincarnated as the villainous Anton Hastor), and disappeared, seemingly never to be heard from again. More than fifty years passed.
Then Katar Hol achieved his Thanagarian maturity and came to Earth to seek out his father. Working with Carter’s godson Norda of Feithera and Shiera’s grandniece Kendra Saunders, the new Hawkgirl, Katar set out to discovery the truth of that fateful day in 1951. Their quest led them--- and Helene Astar, Anton Hastor’s daughter--- to an abandon Nazi stronghold in the Bavarian Alps, the scene of Hath-set’s final gambit. Hastor had perished in the decades’ old conflagration, and Shiera had given her life to help Carter put an end to the doomsday their immortal enemy had summoned, but as a result, Carter had become trapped in a warp-field of Nth Force. Freed from stasis, he faced a world devoid of his immortal beloved and enemy both.
In order to give his life purpose again, Carter Hall joined with Jay Garrick and Alan Scott to reform the Justice Society of America. Calling together old and new allies, the team debut during the “Justice League versus America” crisis, helping to turn the tide against Starro and the Secret Society of Super Villains. Unanimously chosen as their first new chairman (a position he held for most of the team’s original tenure), Hawkman leads a true society of heroes, bound by family ties and heroic legacies, into a new Golden Age.