Hawkman I
Hawkman III
Silent Knight
Immortal Warrior
Pinioned Paladin
Winged Warrior
Adventurer
Ancient Egyptian Prince
Archaeologist
Infinity Inc.
Hawkman I
Brown
Hawkman III & IV
Black
Thanagarian incarnations have normal strength for natives of their planet, but due to its greater mass than Earth, possess greater strength, speed, stamina, agility and durability while on Earth.
Hawk Uniform: Artificial wings, harness, boots and belt containing the gravity defying Nth metal.
Note: Nth metal contains a wide variety of abilities besides flight; including increased strength, speed, agility, resistance to cold and heat, accelerated healing, heightened senses and others which have not yet been revealed. Prolonged exposure to Nth metal allows the user to utilizes its abilities to a lesser degree when they have no immediate physical contact with the element.
Modern and ancient weapons from Earth and Thanagar.
Golden-Age
Hummingbird
(The) Monocle
Raven I
Simple Simon
Silver-Age & Pre-Crisis
Byth
Chac
Criminal Alliance of the World
Fadeaway Man
Fal Tal
Hyathis
I.Q.
Kalvars
Kanjar Ro
Konrad Kaslak
Lion-Mane
Manhawks
Matter Master
Raven II
Wingors
Post Crisis
Count Viper
Hawkgod
Current
Byth
Fadeaway Man
Lion Mane
Trygg the Sorcerer
All Flash Comics
All Star Comics
All-Star Squadron
The Atom and Hawkman
The Brave and the Bold
Detective Comics
Flash Comics
Hawkman Vol. 1, 2 & 4
Infinity Inc.
JSA
Justice League of America
Thousands of years ago, Egyptian Prince Khufu and his lover, came into contact with Nth (ninth) metal, an element from the planet Thanagar. Exposure to the extraterrestrial material imprinted racial memories from the alien Thanagarians onto the couple and combined with their true love, strengthened their souls and the bond between them.
Soon after their exposure to Nth metal, the lovers were murdered by Hath-Set, a corrupt priest of Anubis. Over subsequent, and mostly unrevealed lifetimes, Khufu and Chay-Ara were reborn again and again, destined to meet and fall in love.
In the middle of the 20th century, Khufu was reborn as the independently wealthy Carter Hall, who after handling an Egyptian knife, realized his true lineage and continued his quest for vengeance against his murderer Hath-Set, reborn as Anton Hastor. Utilizing the antigravity Nth metal to construct an anti-gravity belt and wing harness in tribute to the Egyptian hawk god Horus, he adopted ancient weapons of war, becoming Hawkman I.
Chay-Ara was reborn as Shiera Sanders who fought along side her future husband as Hawkgirl I.
Hawkman was one of the founding members of the original Justice Society and the two winged heroes would both serve as members of the early Justice League.
When Hawkman and the Justice Society willing entered Limbo to prevent Ragnarok, his identity was assumed by a Thangarian spy Fel Andar (Hawkman II) who claimed to be the original Hawkman's son Carter Hall Junior. Andar teamed with his Earth born spouse Sharon Parker who was brainwashed into believing that she was the second Hawkwoman. When Andar was exposed as a spy he fled to Thanagar abandoning his son Ch'al Andar (Golden Eagle) who for his protection had been placed in an orphanage at an early age.
After the reality altering event known as the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Thangarian Police Officer Katar Hol (Hawkman IV) assumed the identity as the new Hawkman. Hol was partnered with another Thanagarian police officer named Shayera Thal II (Hawkwoman III), who while on Earth went by the convenient alias Shiera Hall.
{Note: There existed a Pre-Crisis Katar Hol (Hawkman III) and Shayera Thal Hol (Hawkgirl III/Hawkwoman I). Like his Post- Crisis counterparts they were both Thanagarian police officers. Both survived the Crisis On Infinite Earths, but were somehow forgotten during the Hawkworld limited series. Which despite this fact is still a good read.}
During the timeline-shifting battle known as "Zero Hour," the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl, the Egyptian prince Khufu and his consort Chay-Ara, along with other hawk avatars were merged with Thanagarian policeman Katar Hol. Chay-Ara would ultimately not survive the merging and died, leaving Khufu without his soul-mate. Hol would eventually banish himself to the realm of the Hawkgod, in an attempt to stop the murderous hawk avatars that were possessing him.
Unbeknownst to Khufu, Chay-Ara's soul would possess the body of Shiera Hall's grand-niece, Kendra Saunders, an attempted suicide whose soul vacated her body before death, leaving it available to the ancient Egyptian's spirit. The possession left Chay-Ara with no memory of her past life and she believed herself to be Kendra Saunders. After a battle with the sorcerer Mordru, she would join the latest Justice Society as Hawkgirl IV.
A dimension away in the realm of the Hawkgod, Carter Hall was separated from Katar Hol, who subsequently perished. Returning to this dimension Hall would eventually be reunited with his soul mate on the planet Thanagar. Although Saunders was unwilling to accept the reality of what Hall would tell her, he would join his onetime soul mate in the Justice Society, as Hawkman.