Hawkman (Fel Andar)

Hawkman
Thanagar
Team affiliations	Justice League International Elite Hawkmen Force Justice League
Notable aliases	Hawkman Carter Hall, Jr.
Abilities	Belt with an anti-gravity metal; artificial feather wings; archaic weaponry

Fel Andar is a DC Comics character who also called himself Hawkman. There are two different versions of Fel Andar: the pre-Hawkworld version (named Fell Andar) was created by Jenny Blake Isabella and Richard Howell, while the post-Hawkworld version was created by John Ostrander and Graham Nolan.

Fel Andar was created after DC Comics rebooted the Hawkman character after publication of the 1989 Hawkworld miniseries, as a stand-in for Katar Hol in Katar's post-Crisis, pre-Hawkworld adventures, including his brief membership with Justice League International.

First appearing in The Shadow War of Hawkman,

agent Fell Andar led a team to Earth to steal the Hawks' technology. Thanagar has at this time become a fascist empire and was planning to take over the universe, starting with Earth. Since they lost their technology during the Equalizer plague, the Hawks were the only ones who possessed them as they were off-planet. Andar took control of the Hawks' spaceship. The Hawks manage to sabotage the ship and crashed. The Hawks battled Andar and emerged victorious.

Later, in Hawkman Special #1, the ghost of Andar appears in Katar Hol's dream while he was getting over the recent deaths of Mavis Trent, the Gentleman Ghost and several others.^[1]

Years before the events told in the

as the second Hawkman.

He never told his superiors of his son. They

mindwiped

Sharon, forcing her to take the identity of Hawkwoman.

Intending to gain his teammates' confidence, Andar claimed to be

alien alliance. When Hawkwoman learned about the masquerade she exposed the truth to the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord

. Confronted by both, Andar escaped back to Thanagar but not before murdering Sharon for her betrayal.

Fel Andar wanted to stay on Earth but was forced to return to his planet by Carter Hall's return from Limbo. Andar was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thanagar and left his young son behind. Andar appeared two more times in his son's life. He placed the battlesuit Charley would use as Golden Eagle so that it could be easily "discovered" by

Wildebeest Society during the Titans Hunt storyline. During the second encounter with his son, Andar was recaptured and returned to Thanagar.^[2]

Death

During the events of the

Rann-Thanagar War, while trying to make up with his son and redeem himself for his own crimes, Andar died at Komand'r's hands.^[3]

See also

• Golden Eagle
• Hawkwoman

References

1. ^ Hawkman Special #1
2. ^ Hawkman (vol. 4) #48
3. ^ Rann-Thanagar War #2