The HAWKMAN Mythos
?A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.? -- Joseph Campbell. The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Although Gardner Fox created the Hawkman ten years before Joseph Campbell?s book was released, of all the super-hero characters of the Golden Age of Comics, the Haw