About the Hawkgirl/Covergirl Collection

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When I started the Hawkgirl cover girl collection, I figured that I was going to only collect about a dozen Silver age comic books and I was only going to purchase what I could afford. It began with a joke when I was explaining to my son my comic book reading habits of the 1960s. I explained how I had once referred to Hawkgirl as a “rare-bird” because she rarely appeared on the cover of any comic books, but this was a bit of conjecture on my part. I recalled when I first saw Hawkgirl on a cover – and today I know that as being the cover of Hawkman #3 (Sep 1964) – I figured that the girl in “Hawkgirl” meant that she was literally a “girl” and not a grown woman. Also, that she was most certainly not the wife of Hawkman. How dare she be married?

I thought she was Katar’s daughter, maybe a niece and or a ward as Robin was to Batman. At some point, I learned that Hawkgirl (aka Shayera Hol aka Shiera Hall) was in fact the wife of Hawkman (aka Katar Hol aka Carter Hall). From 1964 to 1968 there were a total of 27 issues of the Hawkman series published and of those 27 issues, Hawkgirl appeared on only six covers (#3, #9, #14, #19, #21, #25). This is what I must have noticed and hence my calling each time she appeared “a rare bird sighting.”

Not too long after I told my son the story of the “rare bird”, I had a conversation with my 90-year old mother. I was attempting to explain to her that I had recently developed a passion for comic books & animated series and that was not reading or watching anything else. I then reminded her how she had thrown away my comic collection when I was a senior in high school. You can read that story here, but this was also when my mother suggested that I just start a new collection.

I joked that I had already started collecting comic books again and I told her of how I was scouring Amazon to find good deals on the trade-paperback editions of the “Showcase Presents…” series. This is a line of black-and-white paperback books published by DC Comics. The line is designed primarily to focus on the Silver Age DC stories. Each book is about 500 pages and the SRP for each is $17. I have been able to find used books in “Used – Very Good” condition being sold for six to eight dollars plus shipping. I started with the two volumes that collect the Hawkman series from the mid-sixties and now have about two dozen volumes. The collection includes most of the silver age titles such as Green Lantern and Justice League of America. Each volume is focused on a specific character. Supergirl has two volumes and Batgirl has one also.

It was when saw that I could have the collection of Silver age Hawkgirl covers for around $50, I completed the collection in only a couple months. When I had them all, I thought: “Gee, that was too easy!” and that was when I started working on a comprehensive list.

It took me about eight months to complete the comprehensive list of Hawkgirl/Covergirl covers. I used the resources of two websites. The first one was comicbookdb.com – “The Comic Book Database”. Using the “Character” search I was able to get lists of where each of the multiple incarnations appeared. When you search for Hawkgirl/Character you will a list of about 15 versions of the character; however, only nine are of the main continuity of DC Comics. They are categorized by the continuity to which they belong: Pre-Crisis (Earths 1 & 2), Post-Crisis, Post-Blackest Night, or Post-Flashpoint. Basically, there are four “versions” of Hawkgirl – Shiera Saunders-Hall of the Golden Age, Shayara Hol of the Silver age, Shayera Thal of the Dark age, and the modern age Kendra Saunders.

The first website provided me with lists of where she appeared. This meant she appeared within the story, but with no indication of the character appearing on the cover. Getting the answer to that question, required that I examine each cover. To do this I used a second website called dc.wikia.com. Here I was able to view galleries displaying all the covers of a specific series that the character appeared in. All totaled there were about 50 different series that Hawkgirl appeared in at least once. In some series, she appeared dozens of times. As one may imagine, this was very time-consuming.

So far, the list consists of 211 covers of which I have 161 bagged and boarded. What follows is the lists for the bronze, dark and modern age of comic books. Since June of this year, four new covers have been added to list.

Here are the details:

Golden Age

Starting with the golden age of comic books, which is roughly the decade of the 1940s and the early 1950s, both Hawkgirl and Hawkman appeared between the covers of two series, Flash Comics and All-Star Comics. Hawkgirl made her debut as Hawkgirl in All-Star Comics #8 (Dec 1941), but before that she appeared in almost every Hawkman story since the first one in Flash Comics #1 (January 1940). However, in the nine years between 1940 and 1948, Shiera “Hawkgirl” Saunders appeared on only 9 covers:

She appeared on three covers as Shiera (#7, #11, #19) – All covers by Sheldon Moldoff

She was on three covers as Hawkgirl without a mask: (#29, #37, #39) – All covers by Sheldon Moldoff

And she appears on three covers as Hawkgirl with a mask (#85, #87, #94) – All covers by Joe Kubert

Silver Age

Following Flash Comics #94 (April 1948), the Hawkgirl character did not appear again until 13 years later. In March 1961, writer Gardner F. Fox, artist Joe Kubert and editor Julius Schwartz revived the Hawks with new origin story. They were now married and had come to Earth from the planet Thanagar. On their home planet they were police officers and they arrived here in pursuit of an intra-galactic criminal. Katar Hol and his wife/partner Shayera had tracked to Earth a notorious shapeshifter named Blyth Rok. The silver age Hawks were introduced in Brave and the Bold #34.

Hawkgirl appeared on the covers of Brave and the Bold #34, #35, #36. Those three issues and the nine from the golden age are outside my price range. So, my collection begins with Hawkman #3. I paid $9 for one rated Good (GD+ 2.5). One of the Brave and the Bold covers, rated the same would cost at least $40, if not a couple of hundred dollars.

The Silver-Age, Earth-1 Hawkgirl appeared on a total of 14 covers. Except for the first three, I have the rest. At first, this was my only goal.

Title	Issue	Month	Year	Paid
The Brave and the Bold (1955)	#34	Feb/Mar	1961
The Brave and the Bold (1955)	#35	Apr/May	1961
The Brave and the Bold (1955)	#36	Jun/Jul	1961
Hawkman (1964)	#3	Aug/Sep	1964	US $6.00
Hawkman (1964)	#9	Aug/Sep	1965	US $4.99
Hawkman (1964)	#14	Jun/Jul	1966	US $6.70
Hawkman (1964)	#19	Apr/May	1967	US $6.00
Hawkman (1964)	#21	Aug/Sep	1967	US $5.99
Hawkman (1964)	#25	Apr/May	1968	US $6.70
Justice League of America (1960)	#72	June	1969	US $6.00
Adventure Comics (1938)	#413	December	1971	US $3.60
Adventure Comics (1938)	#416	March	1972	US $6.70
Superman (1939)	#252	June	1972	US $11.00
Secret Origins (1973)	#1	Feb/Mar	1973	US $14.00

Bronze Age (56 covers)

Justice League of America (1960)	#121	August	1975	US $3.40
Four Star Spectacular (1976)	#4	Sep/Oct	1976	US $2.70
Justice League of America (1960)	#135	October	1976	US $4.00
Justice League of America (1960)	#145	August	1977	US $6.70
Justice League of America (1960)	#146	September	1977	US $6.40
Secret Society of Super-Villains (1976)	#7	May/Jun	1977	US $2.50
Showcase (1956)	#101	June	1978	US $1.89
Showcase (1956)	#102	July	1978	US $1.89
Showcase (1956)	#103	August	1978	US $1.89
Wonder Woman (1942)	#249	November	1978	US $4.80
Justice League of America (1960)	#163	February	1979	US $1.80
Justice League of America (1960)	#170	September	1979	US $3.40
World’s Finest Comics (1941)	#256	Apr/May	1979	US $3.99
World’s Finest Comics (1941)	#257	Jun/Jul	1979	US $3.60
Justice League of America (1960)	#176	March	1980	US $4.00
Justice League of America (1960)	#181	August	1980	US $1.70
DC Comics Presents (1978)	#37	September	1981	US $4.20
Detective Comics (1937)	#500	March	1981	US $2.60
Justice League of America (1960)	#188	March	1981	US $4.00
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#6	February	1982	US $4.00
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#7	March	1982	US $3.40
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#8	April	1982	US $2.99
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#9	May	1982	US $1.70
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#10	June	1982	US $2.80
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#11	July	1982	US $1.70
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#12	August	1982	US $2.99
Wonder Woman (1942)	#300	February	1983	US $3.00
DC Comics Presents (1978)	#74	October	1984	US $4.40
Justice League of America (1960)	#222	January	1984	US $2.40
Justice League of America (1960)	#225	April	1984	US $3.90
Justice League of America (1960)	#227	June	1984	US $4.49
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#46	June	1985	US $2.60
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#51	November	1985	US $3.90
The Shadow War of Hawkman (1985)	#1	May	1985	US $1.80
The Shadow War of Hawkman (1985)	#4	August	1985	US $2.40
Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)	#10	December	1985	US $1.70
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#53	January	1986	US $2.99
All-Star Squadron (1981)	#59	July	1986	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#1	August	1986	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#2	September	1986	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#3	October	1986	US $1.80
Hawkman (1986)	#4	November	1986	US $2.40
Hawkman Special (1986)	#1		1986	US $1.70
Infinity, Inc. (1984)	#30	September	1986	US $2.40
Action Comics (1938)	#588	May	1987	US $2.60
Hawkman (1986)	#6	January	1987	US $2.60
Hawkman (1986)	#8	March	1987	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#10	May	1987	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#11	June	1987	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#12	July	1987	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#13	August	1987	US $2.60
Hawkman (1986)	#14	September	1987	US $2.60
Hawkman (1986)	#15	October	1987	US $1.70
Hawkman (1986)	#16	November	1987	US $1.70
Young All-Stars (1987)	#2	July	1987	US $1.70
Power of the Atom (1988)	#4	November	1988	US $1.70

Dark Age (21 covers)

Hawkworld (1990)	Annual 01	Annual	1990	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	#1	June	1990	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#2	July	1990	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	#4	September	1990	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	Annual 02	Annual	1991	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	#7	January	1991	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	#8	February	1991	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#10	April	1991	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#14	August	1991	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#16	October	1991	US $1.70
Armageddon: Inferno (1992)	#2	May	1992	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	Annual 03	Annual	1992	US $1.79
Hawkworld (1990)	#20	February	1992	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#22	April	1992	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#23	June	1992	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#25	August	1992	US $1.70
Hawkworld (1990)	#29	December	1992	US $1.70
Justice Society of America (1992)	#1	August	1992	US $4.20
Darkstars (1992)	#5	February	1993	US $1.70
Darkstars (1992)	#6	March	1993	US $1.70
Hawkman (1993)	#5	January	1994	US $1.75

Modern Age (110 covers)

All Star Comics (1999)	#2	Late May	1999
JSA (1999)	#1	August	1999
JSA (1999)	#2	September	1999
JSA (1999)	#3	October	1999
Sensation Comics (1999)	#1	May	1999	US $1.80
JLA (1997)	#41	May	2000
JSA (1999)	#6	January	2000
JSA (1999)	#13	August	2000
Legend of the Hawkman (2000)	#1	July	2000
Legend of the Hawkman (2000)	#2	August	2000
Legend of the Hawkman (2000)	#3	September	2000
JSA (1999)	#18	January	2001
JSA (1999)	#19	February	2001
JSA (1999)	#20	March	2001
JSA (1999)	#21	April	2001
JSA (1999)	#25	August	2001
JSA (1999)	#26	September	2001
JSA (1999)	#28	November	2001
Hawkman (2002)	#4	August	2002	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#7	November	2002	US $1.70
JLA (1997)	#69	Early October	2002
JLA (1997)	#71	Early November	2002
JSA (1999)	#36	July	2002
JSA (1999)	#38	September	2002
Catwoman (2002)	#24	December	2003
Hawkman (2002)	#13	May	2003	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#15	July	2003	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#16	August	2003	US $1.70
JLA/Avengers (2003)	#3	November	2003
JSA (1999)	#43	February	2003
JSA: All Stars (2003)	#2	August	2003	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#22	February	2004	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#23	Early March	2004	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#26	May	2004	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#28	July	2004	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#30	September	2004	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#33	December	2004	US $1.70
JSA (1999)	#63	September	2004
JSA: All Stars (2003)	#8	February	2004
Countdown to Infinite Crisis (2005)	#1	April	2005
Hawkman (2002)	#34	January	2005	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#36	March	2005	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#40	July	2005	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#42	September	2005	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#44	November	2005	US $1.70
JSA (1999)	#74	August	2005
JSA Strange Adventures (2004)	#4	January	2005
Justice (2005)	#1	October	2005
Rann/Thanagar War (2005)	#2	August	2005
Rann/Thanagar War (2005)	#3	September	2005
Rann/Thanagar War (2005)	#5	November	2005
Rann/Thanagar War (2005)	#6	December	2005
52 (2006)	#26	November	2006
52 (2006)	#5	June	2006	US $1.70
Hawkgirl (2006)	#50	May	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#51	June	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#52	July	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#53	August	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#54	September	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#55	October	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#56	November	2006
Hawkgirl (2006)	#57	December	2006
Hawkman (2002)	#47	February	2006	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#48	March	2006	US $1.70
Hawkman (2002)	#49	April	2006	US $1.70
Justice (2005)	#7	October	2006
Justice League of America (2006)	#2	November	2006
Birds of Prey (1999)	#100	January	2007
Birds of Prey (1999)	#107	August	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#59	February	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#60	March	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#61	April	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#62	May	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#63	June	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#64	July	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#65	August	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#66	September	2007
Hawkgirl (2006)	#58	January	2007	US $1.70
Justice League of America (2006)	#7	May	2007
Justice League of America (2006)	#12	October	2007
Justice League of America (2006)	#14	December	2007
Justice League of America (2006)	#5	February	2007	US $2.60
Justice League of America (2006)	#15	January	2008
Justice League of America (2006)	#19	May	2008
Justice League of America (2006)	#21	July	2008
Justice League of America (2006)	#22	August	2008
Justice League of America (2006)	#23	September	2008
Justice League of America (2006)	#25	November	2008
Justice Society of America (2007)	#17	August	2008
Blackest Night (2009)	#3	November	2009
Justice League of America (2006)	#28	February	2009
Justice League of America (2006)	#30	April	2009
Justice Society of America (2007)	#26	June	2009
Brightest Day (2010)	#0	June	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#0	June	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#1	Early July	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#3	Early August	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#4	Late August	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#11	Early December	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#8	Late October	2010	US $1.70
Justice League: Generation Lost (2010)	#8	Late October	2010
Brightest Day (2010)	#13	Early January	2011	US $1.70
Brightest Day (2010)	#18	Late March	2011	US $1.70
Brightest Day (2010)	#23	Early June	2011	US $1.70
The Savage Hawkman (2011)	#13	December	2012
Convergence Hawkman (2015)	#1	June	2015
Death of Hawkman (2016)	#5	April	2017
Justice League (2018)	#2	August	2018
Justice League (2018)	#1	Early August	2018	US $3.99
Wonder Woman (2016)	#48	Early August	2018	WL

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About the Hawkgirl/Covergirl Collection

Golden Age

Silver Age

Bronze Age (56 covers)

Dark Age (21 covers)

Modern Age (110 covers)

Golden Age

Silver Age

Bronze Age (56 covers)

Dark Age (21 covers)

Modern Age (110 covers)

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