Captain America Figure
What’s the deal with Hawkeye?
So with my limited comic book knowledge, I know him as my very favoritest of Iron Man villains.
But at walmart the other day, I saw a pack of little marvel action figures that came with Hawkeye and Captain America. Though the combinations of characters seemed to be fairly arbitrary, I couldn’t help but think he wasn’t that huge of a villian to earn an action figure (especially given the only other villain I saw was Magneto).
But then, I’ve only read the first maybe 30 or so Iron Mans. So does Hawkeye go on to do something else later? Does he show up in Captain America books or something?
Hmm… the only place I’ve read him is in the old Iron Man books from the 60s. He shows up in Tales of Suspence 57.
heh, it’s not the actual comics, it’s one of those reprint omnibus..es.. omnibi? whatever, you know what I mean.
Hawkeye (Clint Barton) is one of my favorite characters. He’s always been a hero except for his first 3 appearances in the early 60s (Tales of Suspence #57, 60 and 64 1964-65). If you remember the story, Hawkeye originally put on the costume intending to be a hero, but there was a mix up and he ended up being mistaken for a villain. On the run, the Black Widow rescues him and tricks him into helping her with some crimes (Black Widow is another character who started out as a villain in the 60s and then became a hero). He then decides he needs to go straight, and joins the Avengers in Avengers #16 (1965). He was always known for being the hot head, and often bickered with Captain America, although the two became best friends. Since then, he’s appeared in something like 400 issues of the Avengers, including leading the West Coast team. Eventually he married his team mate Mockingbird, who was later killed.
For a time, he left and became the leader of the Thunderbolts, a team of super villains who were posing as superheroes. When the previous Thunderbolts leader Baron Zemo prepared to unleash his master plan, the other T-Bolts rebelled against him, preferring to be heroes. Hawkeye showed up shortly after this, believing they needed a second chance just like he’d been given one so many years ago. He eventually re joined the Avengers when the T-Bolts became a government run organization.
He was killed by the Scarlet Witch, and then brought back to life by her later (she’d gone insane and her reality altering powers were running amuck). In the time that he’d been dead, a band of teenage heroes formed called the Young Avengers. Captain America gave Hawkeye’s name, bow and arrows to a girl on the team named Kate Bishop. After he came back from the dead (and Captain America had died) Clint was offered to take up the mantle of Captain America, but turned it down. He now goes by the identity Ronin and is on the New Avengers.
You can read all about this and more on his wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_%28comics%29
And if you want a pretty good Hawkeye read, I suggest Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes vol 1 and 2. He’s primarily a supporting character, albeit a major one, in just about every comic he’s in. The ones where he’s the lead character (like when he led the Thunderbolts or West Coast Avengers) aren’t available in trade, and you’d have have to track down individual issues. But Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is a fun read, available in trade (at the Amazon at the link below) and it’s an origin story of the Avengers so it will pick up almost directly after the Essential Iron Man book you read
http://www.amazon.com/Avengers-Earths-Mightiest-Joe-Casey/dp/0785114386/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218708522&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Avengers-Earths-Mightiest-Heroes-II/dp/0785118519/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218708522&sr=8-2
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