Comic Title: Hawkman TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: August 1, 1989 Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 1, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date August 3, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #102, Page 3, #106, Page 2

Direct Market Date August 3, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 160
Editor: Mark Waid

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Earth's Impossible Day"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Hawkman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #44 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #43; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #43; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #44)
• George Emmett (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #43; next appearance in Mystery in Space #88)
• Mavis Trent (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #43; next appearance in Mystery in Space #88)
• Big Red (a hawk ally of Hawkman and Hawkgirl; next appearance in Hawkman #5)

Villain(s)

• Tommy-Gun Tyler and Genius Joe (two convicts; no further appearances)
• Marty Stone (a thief; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Two unnamed forest fire fighters (no further appearances)
• Prison guards (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Earth’s Fourth of July coincides with a Thanagarian tradition called "Impossible Day," in which citizens perform three impossible feats to honor their mutual ancestor, Rhon Dhu. As Hawkman and Hawkgirl, Katar and Shayera go on a traditional picnic and help out a forest fire by causing it to "rain upwards"; they then capture a band of crooks protected by an electrical force field by throwing lightning at them (in the form of lightning-born fulgarite boulders). Finally, they recover stolen museum relics, despite the thief firing invisible bullets at them, and thus, they fulfill their Thanagarian tradition by performing three "impossible" feats.