Comic Title: Showcase Presents Hawkman Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: March 21, 2007 Direct Market Date March 21, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #12 (#216)

Direct Market Date March 21, 2007
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Shadow Thief of Midway City"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #36 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #36; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #42)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #36; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #42)
• George Emmett (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #36; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #43)

Villain(s)

• Shadow-Thief (Carl Sands; next appearance in Hawkman #5)

Other Character(s)

• Thar Dan (an inventor of the extra-dimensional planet Xarapion and creator of the Dimensiometer; next appearance in Hawkman #5)
• Midway City bank guards, a teller, and police officers (no further appearances)

Comments:
Hawkman’s hawk chest symbol is reversed beginning with this issue.

Hawkman and Hawkgirl’s boots are modified from flared-slipper style to sock-boots beginning with this issue.

Hawkgirl is mistakenly called "Shierra" in this story.

Synopsis:
Just as the Thanagarian authorities recall Katar and Shayera, a giant shadow creature robs the Midway City Bank, its incorporeal body resisting the bank guards’ bullets as it absconds with the money. Despite their attempts, Hawkman and Hawkgirl are unable to prevent the Shadow-Thief’s escape with a million-dollar coin collection, though they are able to identify the creature from mug shots, by comparing it to the shadow profile of convicted burglar Carl Sands.

Sands had become fascinated by shadows in prison, and while using a color-disc magic-trick projector after his release, he accidentally discovered another dimension, and a being in trouble there. Saving the alien Thar Dan won Sands his gratitude, as the alien inventor gave him a Dimensiometer, a device which enabled Sands to exist in shadow. However, when Thar Dan discovered that use of this device would trigger another Ice Age, and requested his invention’s return, Sands ignored the plea and continued his ravaging of Earth.

Ignorant of these facts, Hawkman and Hawkgirl deduce that suspending Shadow-Thief in the air would prevent his escape, and do so. Thus, the Thief has to rip the Dimensiometer from his wrist in order to become solid on Earth, and they catch him. This action ruins the device, one use short of starting the new Ice Age.