The Shadow War of Hawkman #3 [Newsstand]
(July 1985)

DC, 1985 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-04-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893119207
Editing
Alan Gold (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #14.
This issue is a variant of The Shadow War of Hawkman (DC, 1985 series) #3 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[My Worlds Opposed!] (Table of Contents)

Hawkman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Richard Howell (signed as Howell)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed as GiORDANO [dotted i])
Colors
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Justice League of America: Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; The Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Hawkman [Katar Hol]

My Worlds Opposed! (Table of Contents: 1)

Hawkman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Tony Isabella (credited)
Pencils
Richard Howell (credited)
Inks
Alfredo Alcala (credited)
Colors
Michele Wolfman (credited as M. Wolfman)
Letters
Ben Oda (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Justice League of America: Superman [Clark Kent] (vision)
Justice League of America: Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (vision); Black Canary [Dinah Lance] (vision); The Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; The Flash [Barry Allen] (vision); Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (vision); Wonder Woman [Princess Diana] (vision)
Fell Andar (villain); Captain Stewart Frazier (flashback) (cameo); Hawkman [Katar Hol] (also flashback); Hawkwoman [Shayera Thal] (also flashback); Hyathis (flashback); Rab Mekir (villain); Joe Tracy (flashback) (cameo); Mavis Trent (death) (flashback); Thanagarians
Synopsis
Hawkman is saved from Fell Andar and his Thanagarian agents by none other than Hawkwoman, who later explains to Katar that it was Mavis Trent, disguised as Hawkwoman, who was killed by the Thanagarians. The Hawks sneak into Justice League headquarters in Detroit to try to erase any Thanagarian knowledge stored there before Fell Andar can get to it, but Fell has stolen Katar's spaceship and is heading straight toward them.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Red Tornado / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Crisis on Infinite Earths / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Shadow War of Hawkman / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Tony Isabella (credited); Alan Gold (credited as Alan) (next issue blurb)
Pencils
Richard Howell (illustration of Hawkman and Hawkwoman)
Inks
Dick Giordano (illustration of Hawkman and Hawkwoman)
Colors
Michele Wolfman ? (illustration of Hawkman and Hawkwoman)
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-1991
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I don't know what I'm doing here, either.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Hawkwoman [Shayera Thal]; Thanagarians

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Dave Barrington, and Don Thompson. Also DC publisher credits and an illustration.

Guest Meanwhile... From Abroad (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [My Worlds Opposed!]
    Hawkman
  2. 1. My Worlds Opposed!
    Hawkman
  3. 2. ["Red Tornado finally gets himself together."]
    Red Tornado
  4. 3. ["50 years in the making!"]
    Crisis on Infinite Earths
  5. 4. ["2 more blistering war books!"]
  6. 5. ["I don't know what I'm doing here, either."]
    The Shadow War of Hawkman
  7. 6. Guest Meanwhile... From Abroad
    Meanwhile...
This issue was modified by
  • Allen Ross
  • Jim Van Dore