Comic Title: Hawkman Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2000
On Sale Date: September 7, 2000 Direct Market Date July 26, 2000
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #5 (#137)

Direct Market Date September 7, 2000
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, September 7, 2000

Direct Market Date September 7, 2000
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: September 7

Direct Market Date September 7, 2000
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of September 8, 2000

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 240
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Valley of Vanishing Men"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #35 (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)
• Mavis Trent (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #35; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #36)

Villain(s)

• The Abominable Snowmen (also known as the Yeti; revealed as aliens from planet Xardoon; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed member of Mavis Trent's Himalayan expedition (no further appearances)
• An unnamed Himalayan villager, his wife, and son (no further appearances)
• Various fellow villagers and Himalayan explorers (no further appearances)

Comments:
The Absorbascon is first named in this story.

Synopsis:
Mavis Trent discovers a Yeti in the Himalayas, then disappears, leaving behind photographic evidence, which prompts Hawkman and Hawkgirl to launch her rescue. Traveling to the area, Katar saves a young boy from a bear, and the boy’s grateful father fills them in on the Abominable Snowmen legend. They thus remember what the Absorbascon had taught them, but then Hawkgirl is also captured by the Yeti.

An eagle fills Katar in on the remainder of their story: they are aliens from the planet Xardoon, who crash-landed eons ago and lost their memories of their origins, and are now unable to repair their ship. They have managed to keep knowledge of their existence from the rest of the world by teleporting and placing in suspended animation all who see them.

In battling them, Hawkman learns that contact with wood prevents their teleportation device from working, and runs a gauntlet of the powerful snowmen, making it to their village where he finds a Glowstone holding the Earth prisoners in thrall. Freeing Hawkgirl, Mavis, and dozens of others, he then negotiates a truce between the Yeti and the villagers by showing the latter the protection provided by wood.