Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Hawkman Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: July 16, 2008 Direct Market Date July 16, 2008
Source: Previews, #235

Direct Market Date July 16, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Parasite Planet Peril"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Murphy Anderson

Reprinted From:
Hawkman #19 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Hawkman (last appearance in Hawkman #18; next appearance in Justice League of America #51)

Supporting Character(s)

• Hawkgirl (last appearance in Hawkman #18; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #70)

Villain(s)

• The Lizarkons of planet Aptilia (no further appearances)
• Manhawks (last appearance in Hawkman #18; next appearance in Showcase #103)
• Space-Spider (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Hawkman #18; next appearance in Strange Adventures #222)
• Alanna (last appearance in Hawkman #18; next appearance in Strange Adventures #222)

Other Character(s)

• Several inhabitants of Thanagar (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Manhawks (in flashback to Hawkman #18)

Comments:
This story is continued from Hawkman #18.

Several Adam Strange adventures published after this story prior to Justice League of America #96 ignore Adam's inability to return to Earth, and therefore must occur before the events shown in Hawkman #18. These include the stories in Strange Adventures #222 and Strange Adventures #226, as well as Brave and the Bold #90.

Synopsis:
When the captured Manhawk is unable to reveal Thanagar's location, Hawkman and Adam Strange release him, hoping that his homing instincts will lead them there. Katar tracks the bird from his ship, but when it is captured in a space-spider's immense web, he finally has to set the web afire to free it. When the trip is again interrupted by the unyielding pull of a white dwarf star, he shifts all power to his anti-gravity coils; this reveals him to the Manhawk, who attacks. He feigns death, and finally follows the creature to its planet, destroying the creatures' psycho-control device before it can again take over Thanagar.

Katar and Shayera are reunited, and he tells her what he's learned of the Manhawk's origins. Their home planet had been destroyed by the Lizarkons of Aptilia, another planet in their star system, who then found that they had a symbiotic relationship with their enemies. All Lizarkons, save one, went into suspended animation until the Manhawks could be brought back, and it was that lone Lizarkon who planted the idea to bring Thanagar and its imprisoned Manhawks to their system in the mind of Falthis Far, leader of the Manhawks. But when they left for Rann, the plan was in jeopardy, so the psycho-control machine was planted on Thanagar to protect the last Manhawk.

The Lizarkon brings the Manhawk to Aptilia, and they agree to provide revitalization to the Lizarkons if the Manhawks on Earth are revived, and the Manhawk is given a power belt to amplify his body's effect on the sleeping Lizarkons, which has the added effect of preventing Hawkman and Hawkgirl's weaponry from working. Using their physical prowess, the winged warriors battle the Manhawk and Lizarkon, and prevent the revival of the others.

At last, the heroes use the Manhawk's machine to return their planet to its proper orbit around Polaris.