Part and parcel of man’s dream of flying is the fascination with wings. For centuries, men who wanted to fly attempted to copy the nature of a bird’s wing to lift themselves into the heavens. It is not strange that many highflying supers and wannabe supers adopt a winged motif.
The prototypical winged wonder is, of course, Hawkman, who debuted in 1940. He was highly respected in the superhero community and served as Chairman of the Justice Society of America for a decade. Operating in that same time period was the American Eagle, who had an elaborate glider cape apparatus, and Red Raven, whose mechanical wings allowed for actual flight, though not with the grace and power of the nth-metal powered wings of the Hawks. Others like the original Angel and Raven used a winged motif even though they could not, in fact, fly.
After the original Hawks retired in the early 1950s, only American Eagle continued until another pair of Hawkman and Hawkgirl (woman) showed up in the early 60s, apparently with the blessing of the originals. The naturally winged Angel, Warren Worthington the 3rd, appeared with the X-Men shortly thereafter.
About the same time as the new Hawks appeared, American Eagle took on a sidekick, a young man called Winger. When the original died testing his new jet wings, Winger took the name and the wings and became the high-flying champion of Detroit.
In the late 70s, American Eagle II also fell victim to the hazards of artificial winged flight and was crippled in a fall. He turned the wings over to another, who apparently had access to the nth metal used by the Hawks, for though he continued using mini-jets in wings as a propulsion system, his levitation ability was definitely the result of his costume’s nth metal decorations.
In the early 1980s Silverhawk appeared, revealing his identity as Hector Hall, son of Carter and Shiera, and outing them as the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl in the process. At the same time American Eagle III joined with the Black Phantom and formed the superteam known as the Freedom Squad.
Now Silverhawk and his wife, Fury, daughter of the original Wonder Woman, are members of Justice League Pacific. Fury’s pregnancy 20 years before was a big story, but the final result and sex of the child has never been revealed.
And in 2000, American Eagle III retired and married his Freedom Squad teammate, Lumiere. He handed the name and the wings over to a young man about whom he would only say “came from a long line of heroes.”
Ephron Hall = Rosemary Carter
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Harrison Hall (Entrepreneur and Exploiter) |
David Hall (lawyer) |
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Carter Hall = Shiera Sanders |
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Victor Hall |
William Hall |
Serena Hall |
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Hector Hall (Silverhawk)=Lyta Trevor(Fury II) |
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Steven Hall(Am Eg III) |
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Daniel Hall |
Hank Hall |
Don Hall |
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Dawn Granger |
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(AmericanEagle IV) |
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(Dove I) |
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