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The Bravestarr tangent is what makes this work so well and thus earns a pass for you giving this dude like 30 extra points too many…

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Hawk was excellent at all things. He was friend to white man and Indian alike! (Black men, not so much. He was in 1950s comics, after all.)

Yeah, ha ha- but Hawk was introduced (like it says in the small print on the page scan you’ve posted) in issue #131, which came out not in the 1950’s but in late 1970.

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The “Disco Stu meets Tonto” look is the most awesome thing I’ve seen all week.

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Harvey Jerkwater said on December 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am

Tomahawk was a Revolutionary War hero, and Hawk here is from the Wild West era, which was…about ninety years later. Hm.

Roy Thomas has a script hiding in a desk somewhere that explains how that works. I guarantee it. Time warp? Fountain of Youth? Mysterious Native American magic? Robots? Clones? Somewhere, Roy Thomas has the answer.

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Hey, now there’s Zombie Morbius. The Undead Living Vampire?

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IdleLurker said on December 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Harvey- Obviously, Tomahawk gets returned to the wrong time period after “The War that Time (and every writer save Bruce Jones) Forgot”

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Kingfisher said on December 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

Something about that pose makes his tomahawk look like a microphone.

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It’s all the Time Trapper’s fault!

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lawnmower boy said on December 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Hey, there was a West in those days, too. First Western: James Fenimore Cooper, _The Prairie_ (1828, I think), featuring a Seven Years War veteran as the hero. Admittedly, Hawkeye was 108 at the time, but Cooper does admit that he was slowing down a bit.

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Craig Oxbrow said on December 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

He’s a hunka hunka burnin’ anachronism!

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There’s a 1968 movie called Stay Away, Joe that stars Elvis Presley as a half-breed Indian.

You don’t suppose…?

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As Johnny Bacardi mentioned, Hawk did first appeared in 1970. I should know, I have his first appearance. The stories are actually better than MGK let on, being well written by Bob Kanigher with well done by Frank Thorne and covers by Joe Kubert. However, he’s right about the Who’s Who entry making the character look silly. As for when it was set, it was never mentioned, but Tomahawk was depicted as elderly but spry.

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You missed the bit that even Who’s Who couldn’t bring itself to admit (“Full name: Unknown”). Tomahawk’s real name was “Tom Hawk”. Which’d strongly imply Hawk’s name was, well, “Hawk Hawk”.

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To Lawnmower Boy:

Yeah, there was a western frontier back then…but there weren’t six-guns until the mid-1830’s at the earliest, and that sure don’t look like a Colt Paterson in this dude’s hand. If it’s a Colt .45 Peacemaker (looks like it), we’re talking 1876 or so.

Sorry for the firearms nerdness.

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I think he looks more like Christian Slater doing a bad Elvis impersonation.

Not that there are any good Elvis impersonations.

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In the middle of a burlesque show Saturday, a song was sung by “Clownvis, King of Clowns.” This was admittedly more of a parody than impression.

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In the 2015 movie ‘The Revenant’, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a blond, middle-aged (but tough-as-nails) 1820s frontiersman with a half-Indian son named… ‘Hawk’. (No blond streak in his hair though…)

So, while I know this is the longest of long shots, I can’t help but wonder if the name of his son is a shout-out to DC’s character.

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