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: "The Machine That Magnetized Men"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Hawkman #4 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Hawkman #4; next appearance in Justice League of America #31)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Hawkman #4; next appearance in Justice League of America #31)
• George Emmett (last appearance in Hawkman #3; next appearance in Hawkman #5)

Villain(s)

• Time Bandits (thieves from the 120th century; Jan Kyll named in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jabez Hart (a coin collector; no further appearances)
• Midway City police officers (no further appearances)

Comments:
Following this story, Hawkman joins the Justice League in Justice League of America #31. Then Hawkman and the JLA attend the wedding of Aquaman and Mera in Aquaman #18.

Synopsis:
Disembodied hands attempt to steal rare and valuable objects from a collector and the museum, but are unable to transport these into the limbo they emerged from. Then a vehicle appears which can magnetize people, and bandits emerge to loot the art museum. The thieves are from the 120th century, using a forbidden time-travel vehicle to steal from the past, but due to damaged equipment, they are only able to make one more time trip to the same place and time.

From their initial encounter, Hawkman and Hawkgirl determine the chemical treatment used on the bandits' uniforms which protects them from their own magnetizer, and spray themselves with it, enabling them to maneuver enough to spray the time vehicle with ordinary, present-day paint. Thus saddled with matter from the present which they cannot transport through time, the loot, the truck, and the robbers are stranded in the present.