The Silver Age Hawkman (Katar Hol) was first introduced in The Brave and the Bold #34 by artist Joe Kubert and writer Gardner Fox.

[8] In 1989, Timothy Truman decided to reboot the Silver Age Hawkman in a three-book series titled Hawkworld.

[11] Eventually Hawkman came back, but this time, rather than being the alien policeman that he was in the previous series, he was Carter Hall, the reincarnated Egyptian prince.

The series focuses on Carter Hall, the reincarnated Egyptian prince version of Hawkman, rather than Katar Hol.

When Katar Hol was eighteen, an alien race called the Manhawks invaded Thanagar and began looting the planet.

When a group called the Rainbow Robbers began committing crimes, Katar was teamed up with rookie Shayera Thal to track and apprehend the criminals.

After ten years of marriage and in the force, the pair were sent to Earth to capture the shape-shifting Thanagarian criminal Byth Rok.

[15] During their mission, they meet George Emmett, commissioner of the Midway City Police Department, and told him their alien origin.

After capturing him and sending him back to Thanagar, they elected to remain on Earth to work with authorities to learn human police methods.

The rest of Hawkman's supporting cast consist of Mavis Trent, museum naturalist and diorama artist who flirts with Katar; Joe Tracy, the museum's publicist; his commanding officer Andar Pul; a large red hawk named Big Red who lives in nearby Hawk Valley; and teenage orphan Charley Parker, the Golden Eagle.

Katar gained a variety of unique villainous opponents such as the Shadow Thief, the Matter Master, Ira Quimby (I.Q.

Hol left the Justice League for a time when Thanagar was hit by the Equalizer Plague, which caused all Thanagarians to change so that their physical and mental talents, and even their heights, became the same.

However, in the wake of the plague, Thanagar adopted an expansionist outlook, and went to war with the planet Rann, which orbits Alpha Centauri.

They took Superman to Krypton,[16] briefly joined Justice League International, teamed-up with Atom,[17] and helped Animal Man defuse a Thanagarian bomb during Invasion.

Thanagar was a planet which conquered and mined other worlds for their resources to maintain its high standard of living, and Hol realized that this was wrong.

Hol became addicted to a recreational drug, was manipulated by the renegade police captain Byth into killing his father, and was sent into exile in the Isle of Chance.

Horrified on what he has done, the brother of the man he killed helped him deal with withdrawal symptoms from his drug addictions and he made peace with himself.

Katar met Carter Hall and Shiera Sanders, who returned from Asgard with the rest of the Justice Society.

In one adventure, Carter took an injured Katar to be healed by an old friend, a Cherokee shaman named Naomi ("Faraway Woman").

Because of Carter Hall's return from the dead prior to Infinite Crisis, it has been stated that Katar Hol's soul dissipated from the Limbo/Realm of the Hawk God and is now deceased.

As part of DC's 2011 company-wide title relaunch, The New 52, Katar Hol was re-established as the DCU's Hawkman, using the name Carter Hall.

Unlike other Thanagarians, he was a pacifist; desiring to find an end to centuries of war, he convinced the king to hold a peace conference.

But seeing his brother's increasing insanity, Katar refused to let the metal power be distributed, leading to fighting between them and the death of Corsar.

[18] During the Rotworld storyline Animal Man travels to a post-apocalyptic future where he is attacked by a Rot-corrupted Hawkman; this version is killed by Steel, Beast Boy, and Black Orchid.

Using his psionic powers, Despero controls the citizens of Rann, Thanagar, and Kalanor as part of a plan to attack Earth.