The Strange History Of DC Comics' Hawkgirl
By Christopher Ramos
Sometime during Shayera II's tenure as Hawkwoman, another pair of Hawks took center stage at DC Comics. Since the new ongoing "Hawkworld" series created a massive continuity problem for DC following "Crisis on Infinite Earths," including the inclusion of Katar and Shayera as members of the Justice League, new characters were introduced to explain away these differences. Thus, for a brief time between 1988 and 1992, the Thanagarian spy Fen Andar and his human wife Sharon Parker were said to be the Hawkman and Hawkwoman of Earth.
But Andar's love of country was stronger than his love for his wife, and after being told by his Thanagarian superiors to take over as Hawkman and infiltrate the Justice League, he had his wife mindwiped into believing that her name was actually Sharon Hall. Andar took on the identity of Carter Hall, Jr., the supposed "long-lost son" of the JSA's original Hawkman and Hawkgirl. Thus, for a number of years, Sharon was the official Hawkwoman of Earth. That is, until she discovered the truth.
After revealing what happened to Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord, Sharon was killed by her husband, who shed his fake Hawkman identity and returned to Thanagar. Andar was killed during the "Rann-Thanagar War," but that didn't make Sharon's tenure as Hawkwoman any less tragic. Still, in her brief time as a member of the Justice League, she was a hero in her own right.
