DC Killing Off Their Version of X-Men's Angel Was A Huge Mistake

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DC Comics once briefly introduced a character who bore striking resemblance to the X-Men's Angel--then killed him off in the same issue. Hawkman, introduced in 1940, is both one of DC's most essential and most complicated characters, owed largely to the convoluted nature of his history and origin. Hawkman has alternately been Carter Hall, an ancient Egyptian prince reincarnated as an archaeologist, Katar Hol, a police officer from the planet Thanagar, or sometimes a combination of elements that seems to vary from story to story and continuity to continuity. Although several stories have tried to make sense of the Hawkman continuity, it is fair to say that it's this convolution that keeps many readers away from Hawkman. This is unfortunate, considering the number of thrilling and pivotal stories that have featured Hawkman.

One of these, The Shadow War of Hawkman, which featured Hawkman in his Katar Hol space cop persona, told the story of Hawkman in battle with his former homeworld of Thanagar, with whom he had previously severed ties over a major political disagreement. It was in this story that Icarus, also known as Eddie Hamilton, was introduced, and immediately resembled the X-Men's Angel.

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The 1985 Hawkman miniseries The Shadow War of Hawkman (written by Tony Isabella, pencilled by Richard Howell and inked by Alfredo Alcala) was, when it came out, undoubtedly one of DC Comics' more brutally violent superhero offerings at the time. The Shadow War of Hawkman #2 was not just Icarus's first, but his only appearance. In fact, Hamilton is introduced mere pages before he's killed by the group of Thanagarians responsible for the invasion of Earth.