Comic Title: Hawkworld TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1991
On Sale Date: September 3, 1991 Shipping Date September 3, 1991
Source: Previews, #30

Shipping Date September 3, 1991
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #993

Direct Market Date September 5, 1991
Source: Comic Shop News, #211, Page 3

Direct Market Date September 10, 1991
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #993

Cover Price: $16.95
Page Count: 152
Editor: Michael Charles Hill

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Freefall"
Pages: 46

Feature(s):
Hawkman (Post-Hawkworld)

Writer/Penciller: Timothy Truman
Inker: Enrique Alcatena
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Samuel Parsons

Reprinted From:
Hawkworld #2 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Katar Hol (last appearance in Hawkworld #1; next appearance in Hawkworld #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Shayera Thal (not named in this story; last appearance in Hawkworld #1; next appearance in Hawkworld #3)
• Paran Katar (dies in this story; last appearance in Hawkworld #1; no further appearances)
• Thal Porvis (last appearance in Hawkworld #1; next appearance in Hawkworld #1)
• The original Shayera Thal (dies in this story; last appearance in Hawkworld #1; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Byth (last appearance in Hawkworld #1; next appearance in Hawkworld #3)

Other Character(s)

• Manhawks (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Hawkworld #1)
• R'd Nar T'so and his brother (wingors; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• The Wingmen (last appearance in Hawkworld #1; no further appearances)

Comments:
Ten years pass between pages 37 and 40 of this story.

Synopsis:
Byth recruits Katar Hol to help uncover the source of the weapons smuggling operation. They stage a raid, and Katar chases a cloaked man who was meeting with the rebels. Katar shoots him, then discovers the man to be his own father Paran Katar. Paran had been secretly helping the outworlders for years by supplies them with food, medicine, and money. Despite his aid, the misery continued, and an uprising began to build momentum. Paran had not been sending weapons, but was meeting with the militant Manhawks in the hope of a peaceful resolution.

With Paran's death, Byth is promoted and Katar is exiled to a small island. He lives there for years with an aged priest, who trains him and cleanses him of many of his own sins. Ten years later, Katar is retrieved from the island, sent to the downside to live with the poor and the outcasts. He soon obtains a weapon and plots his next move.