Editing Gardner Fox (section)

====Hawkman====
{{Main article|Hawkman (Carter Hall)}}
Describing the origins of [[Hawkman (Carter Hall)|Hawkman]], Fox recalled, "I was faced with the problem of filling a new book that publisher [[Max Gaines]] was starting... As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest. The bird would swoop down, pick up the twig, and fly away. I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if the bird was a lawman and the twig a crook!'"<ref name="Fifty"/> The character bore a visual resemblance to the [[Prince Vultan|Hawkmen]] who had appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in the mid-1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=2022-10-25 |title=Was Hawkman's Real Life Origin Somehow the Same as Batman's Fictional Origin? |url=https://www.cbr.com/hawkman-real-life-origin-same-batman-fictional-origin-gardner-fox/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=CBR |language=en}}</ref>

Debuting as the third story in ''Flash Comics'' #1 (Jan. 1940) — "Fox's imagination [transformed] that bird [into] the soaring, mysterious Hawkman."<ref name="Fifty"/> With art by Dennis Neville,<ref>Wallace "1940s" in Dolan, p. 30: "In the same issue [#1] Gardner Fox wrote the first story featuring Hawkman...in a story drawn by Dennis Neville."</ref> the origin of the 'Winged Wonder' featured archaeologist and collector Carter Hall reliving his past life as [[Khufu|Prince Khufu]] of [[ancient Egypt]], creating a costume (powered by Nth metal), confronting the [[reincarnation]] of [[Hath-Set]], his former nemesis, and meeting his reincarnated love interest, Shiera Saunders.<ref>{{cite book |last=Zawisza |first=Doug |date=2008 |title=Hawkman Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LuW7HjMky-EC&pg=PA185 |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |page=185 |isbn=978-1-893905-93-1}}</ref>