Comic Title: Hawkman #21
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1967
On Sale Date: June 8, 1967 Newsstand Date June 8, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Batman #194, Page 30

Copyright Date June 8, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967

Newsstand Date June 8, 1967
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V22 #4

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Attack of the Jungle Juggernaut"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Hawkman Vol. 2 TPB (2008)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Hawkman #20; next appearance in Superman #199)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Hawkman #20; next appearance in Hawkman #22)
• George Emmett (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Hawkman #17; next appearance in Atom & Hawkman #41)

Villain(s)

• Lion-Mane (last appearance in Hawkman #20; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Johnny and his mother (no further appearances)
• Customers of the Golden Lion-a-Go-Go nightclub (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from the second story of Hawkman #20.

Synopsis:
Carter Hall and Ed Dawson return to Midway City, and he reminds Carter that the museum holds a duplicate of Mithra, which thousands have touched without incident. When Dawson touches it, however, he again becomes Lion-Mane. This time, smashing the meteorite does not return him to normal, and his new form will kill him unless Hawkman can prevent it.

Lion-Mane's rage, originally triggered by Katar mistreating another lion, is unleashed when a discotheque exhibits a caged lion, and Hawkman must prevent him from killing everyone inside. Hawkgirl joins him, as Lion-Mane vows that he must fulfill his destiny, and finds a third piece of the meteorite buried in a garden near a flower that a sick boy had been using as a sign of his health. With the meteorite gone, the flower begins to die, and the boy is certain he, too, will die, so Hawkman and Hawkgirl infuse radiation from their detectors, and bring the flower back to life.

Lion-Mane, meanwhile, seeks a fourth meteorite in order to gain invulnerability, and when he finds it, the heroes become sealed in a cave. Katar theorizes that the meteorites are actually alien missiles, intended to repopulate planets in the image of the lion-men who would kill other dominant life-forms. However, the first three missiles had been defective, unable to keep the Lion-Manes alive or give them their powers of conquest.

When they escape and meet Lion-Mane again, he has an invisible energy-absorbing force field. This they finally break through, but not before he gains his full powers from the fifth meteorite-missile. Lion-Mane's eyebeams begin to transform the terrain to suit his race, until Hawkman attacks, pulverizing the pieces of the first meteorite in his pockets. Dawson becomes human once more.