Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Hawkman Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: July 16, 2008 Direct Market Date July 16, 2008
Source: Previews, #235

Direct Market Date July 16, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Robot Raiders from Planet Midnight"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Penciller: Dick Dillin
Inker: Charles Cuidera

Reprinted From:
Hawkman #24 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Justice League of America #60; next appearance in Justice League of America #61)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Justice League of America #60; next appearance in Hawkman #25)

Villain(s)

• Unnamed aliens and their robot forces (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lt. General Foster (no further appearances)
• An unnamed doctor (no further appearances)

Comments:
Hawkgirl's name is misspelled "Shierra" in this story.

Synopsis:
Assigned to protect General Foster, who is to preside over an Armed Services Day parade, Hawkman notices that the general salutes with the wrong hand, exposing him as a robot imposter. Other military leaders and his own wife have been similarly replaced, and Katar tracks Shayera through space. He arrives on a sunless planet, and is set upon by winged beasts, which he defeats with his refrigio-ray. Disguising himself as a robot, he infiltrates, but is easily detected, and he and Shayera are united at gunpoint. They learn of this world's plan to invade Earth, and are then forced into combat with beasts in an arena. They escape, find the Earth leaders, and return home, as Katar discovers that there is no argon in the invading planet's atmosphere.

Hawkman leads the defending army when the aliens invade, commanding a flock of bomb-laden birds, until he is wounded and given a blood transfusion by Hawkgirl. The aliens' rocket lands, and Hawkman returns to the battle, gassing the invaders with argon, aging them all to death. The robots cease functioning as well, and Earth is saved.