Comic Title: Showcase Presents Hawkman Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: March 21, 2007 Direct Market Date March 21, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #12 (#216)

Direct Market Date March 21, 2007
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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

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.