Comic Title: Hawkman #15
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1966
On Sale Date: June 14, 1966 Newsstand Date June 14, 1966
Source: Direct Currents, Batman #183, Page 7

Copyright Date June 14, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Scourge of the Human Race"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hawkman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Hawkman Vol. 2 TPB (2008)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Justice League of America #47; next appearance in Hawkman #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Hawkman #14; next appearance in Hawkman #16)
• George Emmett (last appearance in Hawkman #13; next appearance in Hawkman #17)

Villain(s)

• Makkar the Ancient (sole surviving member of the Terravitan race; no further appearances)
• The Terravitans (warriors of Mu; appear in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Corporal Phil and his unnamed girlfriend (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Hawkman rescues an army corporal and his girlfriend from Makkar the Ancient, sole surviving winged amphibian of the Terravitans. They were Earth's original species, and had killed off all the human inhabitants of the ancient land of Mu, at the price of all their lives except Makkar's, who lay in suspended animation until fifty years ago.

With revenge foremost in his mind, Makkar intends to steal the Refractionic Tube from a Midway City research lab, but he is prevented by Hawkman and Hawkgirl, who triumph over his primeval power bolts and other self-generated powers. Placed in suspended animation in the lab, he devolves into a form not affected by the inertia rays, and escapes. Then he activates a machine which he had juryrigged from several Atlantean devices; this would return the Earth to it primordial state, when his species flourished.

Even as the Earth erupts in chaotic degeneration, Makkar battles Hawkman and Hawkgirl, while devolving to forms unaffected by their weapons. His defense backfires when they level a battering attack on his brain, and he devolves to an immobile primordial cell tissue form.

With the threat ended, they place these remains in a hothouse environment.