May 1941
Rating: 5
The cover on #17 has its story told in issue #11. The Hawkman must battle the Golden Mummy – rather routine storyline.
This is the last appearance of Cliff Cornwall. Rather than add a new strip, the next issue ran more ads then before, an affirmation that the series was very popular. Baseball is the vehicle for not one but two stories – the Flash and Johnny Thunder.
It has occurred to me that the Flash\Hawkman balance is similar to the Superman\Batman combo. The Flash\Superman characters are daylight fighters for the community. The Batman\Hawkman personas work best in the night fighting macabre evil villain and the supernatural. Unlike the Superman\Batman team of writers, the Flash\Hawkman themes are left in the capable hands of Gardner Fox for the first 80 issues.
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