Hawk and Dove

Hawk and Dove (dt. Hawk and Dove ) is the title of a series of comic series that the US publisher DC Comics published since 1968.

The content of the Hawk and Dove Comics is a mixture of adventure and science fiction comics. More precisely, the series can be assigned to the genre of superhero comics, a special American form of science fiction comics.

Release history

The concept for Hawk and Dove goes back to the Americans Steve Ditko , co-creator of Spider-Man, and Steve Skeates. The characters were first introduced in issue # 75 of the Showcase comic series , a "try-out" series in the program of comic publisher DC-Comics, in which a different new concept was tried out in each issue. After fairly satisfactory sales of Showcase # 75, DC decided to put the figures at the center of its own ongoing series.

This Hawk and Dove series ran from 1968 to 1969 and reached six issues. Ditko left the series after the second edition, having previously worked as a draftsman and co-author of lead author Skeates. From issue # 3, Gil Kane took on the drawing duties that he did until the series was discontinued. After Skeates left as a writer after # 5, Kane also took over the writing job with # 6.

In 1988 a five-part mini-series on Hawk and Dove was created under the editorial direction of Mike Carlin . This was written by the author couple Karl and Barbara Kesel . The drawings were done by Rob Liefeld , while the ink drawings were also done by Karl Kesel. Following this, DC started a new ongoing series on Hawk and Dove in June 1989, which ran on a monthly basis until October 1991. In total, it reached twenty-eight regular editions and two special editions titled the Hawk and Dove Annual . The Kesel couple reappeared as authors. The series' main artist was Greg Guler . The ink drawings were alternately taken over by Keel and Scott Hanna .

In 1997, another five-part miniseries penned by Mike Baron was released . As a signatory was Dean Zachary hired as technical pens Dick Giordano .

action

At the heart of the original Hawk and Dove comics are the brothers Hank and Don Hall. Both are miraculously given "superpowers", which they use to fight criminals and to take action against social grievances: In addition to superhuman strength and agility, they have the ability to heal injuries within a short period of time. To hide their identity, the two of them dress in colorful costumes during their missions and use code names: While Hank calls himself Hawk ("falcon") - after a bird of prey - according to his aggressive and quick-tempered manner, Don calls himself according to his gentle and diplomatic type Dove ("dove").

While Hank is politically very conservative, Don’s attitudes are extremely liberal. Hank's aggressive temperament is in constant contrast to Don's level-headed manner. The father of the two, a professional judge who condemns vigilante justice without knowing that his sons are considered, represents more balanced positions - which neither go to one nor the other extreme operate masked vigilantes .

After Don dies in the maxi series Crisis on Infinite Earths when he is killed by a shadow demon while trying to save a child, he is later replaced by a young woman named Dawn Granger. The adventures of Hank and Dawn together form the content of the 1988 miniseries and the Hawk and Dove series of the early 1990s. Other characters that appear in this series are Hank's girlfriend Ren Takamori, as well as Kyle Spenser and Donna Cabot, mutual friends of Dawn and Hank, and the police officer Captain Brian Arsala, known as Sal. The series' main villain is the mysterious Kestrel.

In the 1997 miniseries, two new characters, Sasha Martens and Wiley Wolverman, are put into the role of Hawk and Dove. The two no longer appear after the miniseries - with guest appearances by Hawk and Dove on other series, Dawn Granger reappears as Dove and Dawn's belligerent British sister Holly Granger as the new Hawk.

Adaptations

Adaptations of the adventures of Hawk and Dove in other media are rare. So far, only the Warner Brothers animation studios have produced a twenty-five-minute cartoon adventure about the two dissimilar characters. This was marketed in 2002 under the title "Hawk and Dove" as an episode of the animated series The Justice League .

The story describes the sibling conflict between the two unequal brothers, as well as their attempt to make peace in a civil war zone, closely following the template. Actors Jason Hervey and Fred Savage , who had made famous a decade earlier for their portrayal of the quarreling brothers Kevin and Wayne Arnold in the television series Wonderful Years , could be won as voice actors in the original . While Savage, who played the good Kevin, dubbed the violent Hawk, Hervey - who had played the rowdy Wayne at the time - dubbed the part of the dove.

Hawk and Dove also appear in the 2018 Titans series .