Hawkman (Fel Andar)

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caption=Cover to "Hawkworld" v2 #22
Art by Graham Nolan.
character_name=Fel Andar
publisher=DC Comics
debut="Hawkworld" v.2 #22 (Apr 1992)
Retcon: "Action Comics" #600 (May 1988)
creators=John Ostrander
Graham Nolan
alter_ego =
species = Thanagarian
homeworld = Thanagar
alliances = Justice League
Elite Hawkmen Force
aliases = Hawkman, Carter Hall, Jr.
supports=
powers = Belt with an anti-gravity metal; artificial feather wings; archaic weaponry

Fel Andar is a DC Comics character who also called himself Hawkman. Created by John Ostrander and Graham Nolan, he first appeared in "Hawkworld" (vol. 2) # 22 (April 1992).

History

Pre-Crisis

First appearing in "The Shadow War of Hawkman", Thanagarian agent Fell Andar led a team to Earth to steal the Hawks' technology. Thanagar has at this time become a fascist empire and was planning to take over the universe, starting with Earth. Since they lost their technology during the Equalizer plague, the Hawks were the only ones who possessed them as they were off-planet. Andar took control of the Hawks' spaceship. The Hawks manage to sabotage the ship and crashed. The Hawks battled Andar and emerged victorious.

Later, in "Hawkman Special" #1, the ghost of Andar appears in Katar Hol's dream while he was getting over with the recent deaths of Mavis Trent, the Gentleman Ghost, and several others.

Post-Crisis

Years before the events told in the "Invasion!" story arc, Fel Andar, a hybrid Human-Thanagarian spy on Earth, fell in love with an Earth woman, Sharon Parker. They married and Sharon gave birth to Ch'al Andar, translated to the terran Charley. When Charley was four years old, Thanagar called Andar to active duty by ordering him to infiltrate the Justice League as Hawkman II.

He never told his superiors of his son. They mindwiped Sharon, forcing her to take the identity of Hawkwoman.

Intending to gain his teammates' confidence, Andar claimed to be Carter and Shiera Hall's son Carter Hall, Jr. He was actually working for the future alien alliance. When Hawkwoman learned about the masquerade she exposed the truth to the Martian Manhunter and Maxwell Lord. Confronted by both, Andar escaped back to Thanagar but not before murdering Sharon for her betrayal.

Fel Andar wanted to stay on Earth but was forced to return to his planet by Carter Hall's return from Limbo. Andar was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thanagar and left his young son behind. Andar appeared two more times in his son's life. He placed the battlesuit Charley would use as Golden Eagle so that it could be easily "discovered" by Adam Strange. And it was Andar, not the Nth Metal in Charley's uniform, that saved him from drowning at the hand of the Wildebeest Society during the "Titans Hunt" storyline. During the second encounter with his son, Andar was recaptured and returned to Thanagar.

During the events of "Rann-Thanagar War", while trying to make up with his son and redeem himself for his own crimes, Andar died at Komand'r's hands.

ee also

*Golden Eagle
*Hawkwoman