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: "Strange Spells of the Sorcerer"
Pages: 13

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 #35; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #36)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #35; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #36)
• George Emmett (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #35; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #36)
• Mavis Trent (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #35; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #43)

Villain(s)

• Konrad Kaslak (an authority on magic and a sorcerer; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #452)
• A Chaldean winged bull, a phoenix, a dragon, centaurs, and Medusa (magical conjurings of Kaslak; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sport (the Halls’ pet bird; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Mavis Trent believes that she unwittingly caused a minotaur to appear magically after reading aloud a mystic incantation from an ancient Chaldean relic, but her theory is quashed when Hawkman and Hawkgirl battle a phoenix which appears over Hawk Valley. They discover that each conjured creature is responsible for gaining possession of objects necessary to gain the full powers of a sorcerer, a contention shot down by eyewitness magic-expert Konrad Kaslak, who insists the mythological creatures are merely illusions. Unconvinced, Hawkman and Hawkgirl attempt to intercede before the remaining two objects are also acquired, by battling a dragon, centaurs, and Medusa, as they deduce that Kaslak is the would-be sorcerer. They arrive just in time to prevent his spell from succeeding.