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Sanderson Hawkins (Prime Earth)

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Man, you keep me out of all the fun fights.
— Sandy the Golden Boy src

Sanderson Hawkins is Sand, a member of the Justice Society of America. He was formerly Sandy the Golden Boy, the teenage sidekick of the superhero Wesley Dodds, the Sandman, during World War II, and later took on the mantle of the Sandman himself.

The Golden Boy

Sandy met Wesley Dodds when his aunt Dian Belmont took him to Wesley's house on a day she was watching him. Dodds let the boy loose to explore the mansion, and from an upstairs window he saw the Justice Society come to invite Wesley to join. From this he learned that Welsey was the Sandman and later became his sidekick.[1]

During the war, he and the Sandman were deployed with the Blue Beetle, Losers, and Bazooka Boys by the United States Government to Tibet to free the village of Nanda Parbat from General Denki, a rogue scientist. Several of the Losers were captured by the general's robots, for which they mistook the time-traveling Forager when he arrived from the future. Hawkins called off their attack against him, incorrectly identifying him as their fellow hero the Red Bee. Forager nevertheless joined their cause, using his Mother Box to navigate to Nanda Parbat—and to improve Hawkins' complexion. At Nanda Parbat, Sandy joined Forager in sneaking into the village's orichalcum mines, inquiring on the future outcome of the war en route, though refusing to believe Forager's answers. When their allies launched a frontal assault, Sandy joined in battle with the general's robots, only to have his memory of Nanda Parbat erased and to be teleported away by the village's guardian goddess Rama Kushna.[2]

JSA

As an adult, he joined the Justice Society of America as Sand, working with them to defeat Mordru[3] and the Ultra-Humanite,[4] and later adopted a costume resembling that which his mentor had worn as the Sandman, in which guise he fought with the JSA against Gog.[3] Following the erasure and restoration of the Justice Society to the timeline, Hawkins joined them in defending Superman from the attacking forces of Black Adam.[5]

He returned to the JSA and the identity of Sand, and entered into a flirtation with his teammate Jade.[6] He was investigating a magically-frozen theater audience and break-in to the Knight Observatory by the Kobra Cult in Opal City when several JSA members vanished from their brownstone headquarters,[7] and in the week that followed, he attempted to keep the peace between his bickering teammates. He proposed calling in the team's reserve members to help find the missing and bring down Kobra, but his suggestion was shot down by Jade, now acting chair, who likewise rebuffed him when he attempted to speak about their relationship.[6] Simultaneously, Sand was an active member of the Justice League Unlimited, by which he was dispatched to coast of Auckland to face the Marine Marauder.[8]

When his teammate Doctor Mid-Nite was abducted from the JSA brownstone, Sand concluded that there was a traitor within their team, and when a reactionary faction left, supposedly to rescue Mid-Nite, he followed Jade in pursuit.[9] Arriving in the midst of his teammates' battle with Kobra, Sand discovered bloody equipment of Mid-Nite's, suggesting that she had been killed, driving an out-of-control Yolanda Montez, Wildcat, to murder a Kobra agent in retaliation.[10] Though some of the JSA's missing members returned, they brought with them more bad news, including the death of Ted Grant, the original Wildcat, further taxing Sand's ability to hold the team together.[11]


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Wesley Dodds: The Sandman #6
  2. ↑ Bug! The Adventures of Forager #2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Justice Society of America (Volume 4) #12
  4. ↑ Justice Society of America (Volume 4) #7
  5. ↑ Doomsday Clock #12
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 JSA (Volume 2) #1
  7. ↑ JSA (Volume 2) #2
  8. ↑ Justice League Unlimited (Volume 2) #1
  9. ↑ JSA (Volume 2) #5
  10. ↑ JSA (Volume 2) #6
  11. ↑ JSA (Volume 2) #7
  12. ↑ Stargirl: The Lost Children #6


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