Hawks and Fates

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See Saunders Family

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Hawkman & Hawkgirl
Carter Hall & Shiera Saunders
Flash Comics #1 1940 DC

Doctor Fate
Kent Nelson & Inza Saunders-Nelson
More Fun Comics #55 1940 DC

There's a lot of stuff going on, but the long and short of it is that there was a lack of consistency and editorial oversight in the Golden Age and a habit of assigning characters surnames out of a hat from one story to the next (or in some memorable cases within the same story). Inza had a particularly interesting run with no less than half a dozen surnames including the now-canon Cramer and in More Fun Comics #75 1942 DC Sanders.

Helping this along is the like-wise habitually inconsistent hair colour which on occasion made Inza a red-head and that both she and Shiera, with their fairly non-standard names, archaeologist husbands, and adventurous natures would have been right at home on a debutante "Grand Tour" in the '30s.

Thanks to John "Mikishawm" Wells the Saunders/Sanders Family is well documented, extensive, and full of heroes. With a need to explain Kent V. Nelson Countdown to Mystery #1 2007 DC I pulled something similar with the Nelsons. fav.me/d93ylzn

The Scientist Magician that was Kent Nelson and the Barbarian King of the Skies that was Hall make for an interesting contrast and connecting the two through their more-than-capable wives has potential.

The changes to their outfits were mostly attempts to add Egyptian styles, which were a major thing for the legacies, but in a way that wouldn't have been entirely out of place in the Golden Age. 


Everything Fate and Hawk related is owned by DC Comics, I just remixed it. The picture is mine.