Board Thread:Characters/@comment-6369172-20150619173950

Earth-Two Carter Hall had straight blond hair, and lived in New York City. His antigravity equipment was made from Ninth Metal; this metal was invented or discovered or alloyed by himself, based on a series of dreams. He was the reincarnation of a blond Egyptian prince.

Earth-One Katar Hol (dba Carter Hall) had curly black hair, and lived in Midway City. His antigravity equipment was made from Nth Metal; this metal was an extraterrestrial element. He was a Thanagarian policeman.

New Earth Katar Hol (dba Carter Hall) had straight brown hair, and lived in St. Roch. His antigravity equipment was made from metal that was inconsistently called Ninth or Nth, salvaged from a Thanagarian starship that had crashed in ancient Egypt, by Paran Katar, Katar's father, who had space-traveled from Thanagar to Earth AND time-traveled from the late-20th century to the time of Egypts’s 19th Dynasty. He was a Thanagarian exile AND a reincarnated Egyptian prince AND part of the Elementals (an indescribably convoluted conglomeration of entities involved in the Brightest Day event).

My pitch: [Carter Hall (New Earth)] was a patchwork Frankenstein of incompatible origins and inconsistent personal appearance, while Earth-Two Carter Hall had an internally consistent (albeit wacky) origin story and hair that at least was a constant color (albeit not very Egyptian looking). It is a disservice and an injustice to this first-generation superhero character, (long-time JSA chairman, etc etc blah blah), that he should be submerged/melded into the inchoate and inconsistent mess of a character that the “New Earth” Hawkman quickly became. While it's impossible to salvage [C.H. (N.E.)], it seems possible to make a clear distinction between these two versions of this classic character.

Shorter: the guy deserves his own character page in this Wiki, based on seniority, based on popularity, and based on the truth that there’s no such thing as too much Hawkman. With your permission, I should like to undertake to build him [Carter Hall (Earth-Two)] a character page of his own, delineating the differences between the first Hawkman and the later versions. 