Comic Title: Hawkworld #5
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1990
On Sale Date: September 11, 1990 Copyright Date September 11, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Shipping Date August 14, 1990
Source: Previews, #18

Shipping Date August 14, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #182

Direct Market Date August 16, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #162

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "War of the Shadows"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hawkman (Post-Hawkworld)

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Timothy Truman
Penciller: Graham Nolan
Inker: Rick Burchett
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Samuel Parsons

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkwoman (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)
• Mavis Trent (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; no further appearances)
• Darl Klus (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)

Villain(s)

• Byth (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)
• Shadow-Thief (Carl Sands; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)
• Jarl (last appearance in Hawkworld #3; next appearance in Hawkworld #6)
• Jarl's crew (next appearance in Hawkworld #6)

Other Character(s)

• Verzell K. Jones (last appearance in Hawkworld #4; no further appearances)
• Anna Taylor (last appearance in Hawkworld #3; no further appearances)
• Micah (Anna's son; no further appearances)
• Two security guards (both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Mr. Flynt (a shelter organizer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Hawkworld #6.

Synopsis:
Byth hires ninja-assassin Carl Sands to steal Hawkman's command ship and destroy his mothership. Sands is equipped with a generator which allows him to change into a shadow creature. Hawkman and Hawkwoman borrow a shuttle from Darl Klus and reach the mothership. Sands destroys the shuttle, but the Thanagarans reach the command ship.

A freighter then emerges from hyperspace. Shayera takes the command ship to confront it, while Katar boards the mothership to deal with the Shadow-Thief. However, Sands has planted a bomb on board. While Hawkwoman is busy fighting off the freighter, she watches as the ship with Katar and Sands inside is engulfed in a blast of light.