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Hawkeye Epic Collection
Hawkeye Epic Collection, Vol. 1: The Avenging Archer
Earth’s Mightiest Marksman! Follow Hawkeye’s career from his debut to his first solo adventure — and beyond! Though Clint Barton debuted as a foe of Iron Man and love interest to the deadly Black Widow, the sharpshooter soon reformed and joined the mighty Avengers, becoming a force for good…and a thorn in Captain America’s side! Now, learn Hawkeye’s hidden history, thrill to his size-changing stint as Goliath and unforgettable team-ups with Spider-Man and Ant-Man, witness his battles with the bizarre Death-Throws, and more! Plus, the heroic career of Hawkeye’s bride-to-be Mockingbird!
COLLECTING: Hawkeye (1983) 1-4; Avengers (1963) 16, 63-65, 189, 223; Marvel Team-Up (1972) 22, 92, 95; Captain America (1968) 317; material from Tales of Suspense (1959) 57, 60, 64; Marvel Tales (1964) 100; Marvel Fanfare (1982) 3, 39; Marvel Super Action (1976) 1
COLLECTING: Hawkeye (1983) 1-4; Avengers (1963) 16, 63-65, 189, 223; Marvel Team-Up (1972) 22, 92, 95; Captain America (1968) 317; material from Tales of Suspense (1959) 57, 60, 64; Marvel Tales (1964) 100; Marvel Fanfare (1982) 3, 39; Marvel Super Action (1976) 1
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First published January 18, 2022
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Stan Lee
7,563 books2,343 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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December 24, 2022
Unlike in the films, Hawkeye (AKA Clint Barton) was not one of the original founding Avengers in the comics. He originally started out as a mistaken villain for Iron Man and a pawn to be manipulated by the Black Widow (also an adversary of Iron Man is those early days). But this ex-carnival sideshow performer, co-created by Don Heck and Stan Lee, has over the years become one of the most recognizable Avengers.
Tales of Suspense #57, 60, 64 ~ These three stories give us Clint Barton’s backstory, origin and his early missteps on the way to become a hero. But it also illustrates a weakness of Lee as an author. While these stories were only printed a few months apart, they illustrate Lee’s reliance on his artistic collaborators to give him context for character motivation and backstory. These stories show first how the Black Widow was using Hawkeye and manipulating him, then how she’s smitten with him, and how she’s first a dedicated agent of the communist powers, then perceived as a wanted traitor. All of which occurs without explanation or elaboration. Sure most of these changes are occurring off-panel (so to speak), but it still makes for some sloppy narrative as Lee seems to often forget the differences between what he knows, what the readers know and what the characters themselves would know. Clint seems fine with heading off with the Black Widow, unknowing of her status as a spy and saboteur, then he seems troubled by her past, but not so much that he’d turn her over to US authorities. Clearly what was happening is that the creators were having second thoughts about the roles for Hawkeye and the Black Widow and the character’s motivations and personalities were evolving as these early appearances occurred. But from an after-the-fact and meta perspective it’s all very forced and inexplicable. Still these are fun and nostalgic stories (3/5).
Avengers #16 ~ While this wasn’t the first change in the Avengers roster, it was certainly the BIGGEST shake-up to that time. Gone were the founding members Thor, Iron Man, GiAnt-Man and the Wasp (with the Hulk having already left a year previously), leaving the first new recruit to the team, Captain America, in charge of a reformed criminal, Hawkeye, and a pair of former mutant terrorists, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. This story itself is really just that of the transition, we don’t get anything of the dynamics of Cap’s Kooky Quartet (as they would affectionately come to be known) that will be filling the pages of this comic for the next year. But it’s a fun read and has enormous historical significance in the lives of the characters. And it’s drawn by the King, Jack Kirby (4/5).
Avengers #63-65 ~ This trilogy of issues from Lee’s handpicked successor, Roy Thomas and spectacularly illustrated by the one-and-only gentleman Gene Colan, features a wild ride in the life of Clint Barton. First off Hawkeye has inexplicably decided he’s not good enough as the world’s finest archer (say what?), so he takes on a new identity: Goliath. He becomes the third Avenger to use the growth serum developed by Hank Pym (AKA Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, etc.) and yes, this seems as sudden and strange a switch as it sounds. In the next two issues we get a lot of back story on the Avenging Archer that (only slightly) contradicts what had been previous related in such early issues as Avengers #19-20 (these retroactive continuity changes and additions, are likely why those classic tales are not included in this volume), as the background is retold and expanded upon in the issues that are included. Therefor we get the additional inclusion of Barton’s brother, Barney, to the history between Hawkeye and the Swordsman. Even though the animosity from the villainous Egghead would be more accurately included in a volume focusing on Pym. Nevertheless, these issues featuring Colan’s unique signature layout style is well suited to this story and it’s a welcome inclusion (4/5).
Marvel Team-Up #22 ~ Spider-Man and Hawkeye meet, for the first time, except it isn’t. They meet very briefly in Fantastic Four Annual #3, but retroactively speaking they first met in the pages of The Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17, which would have taken place during Hawkeye’s appearances in Tales of Suspense #57, 60, 64. In any case, this is an odd little tale that really only works within the contrived format of a superhero team-up. But its inclusion in this collection illustrates how much we’ve now missed from Hawkeye’s life. Since the last story included here, Clint has abandoned the Goliath persona, returned to his archer roots in a new costume, then returned to his original costume, quit the Avengers, joined the Defenders, taken part in the Avengers/Defenders War, and then left the Defenders. But let’s just forget all we’ve missed and press onward. Nothing particular special about this Team-Up, written and drawn by Len Wein and Sal Buscema, with Spider-Man (3/5).
Marvel Tales #100 ~ While this series was used primarily as a Spider-Man reprint book for many years, there were occasions when a little oddity would find its way into the title. #100 had such a gem and featured Hawkeye and the time traveling western hero, the Two-Gun Kid. Sigh. Yes we’ve missed a ton of Hawkeye action again, all I can say say is check out The Avengers: Celestial Madonna for the explaination on how this unconventional pairing came to be. This short tale is so convoluted and inexplicably contrived as to be absurd. And the less said about it, the better. But for completist fans of Hawkeye, it’s a kind of necessary footnote. To be honest, I wished Marvel had offered a bit more of this bromance than the tidbits we got here, from the pages of the Avengers and an issue of the Champions (#11 if you’re interested, see Champions Classic: The Complete Collection). Generally, this is just an absurd story and makes little to no sense and doesn’t really do anything for the two heroes or the villain (2/5).
Avengers #189 ~ Steven Grant (no, not Moon Knight, the OTHER Steven Grant, the one that writes comic books) provides the script and the legendary John Byrne handles the art chores in this fun departure from the usual Avengers slugfest. Hawkeye has left the Avengers, yes again, and gets a job as Chief of Security for Stark rival company Cross Technologies. This is a nice quickie that helps illustrate Barton’s strengths while on his own (4/5; I’m adding a star for Byrne’s art, I’m a fan, sue me).
Marvel Team-Up #92 ~ It must be time for another Spider-Man/Hawkeye team-up, and Mr. Fear (actually at least the third Mr. Fear, I think) provides the excuse for their superhero night on the town. Just the usual Team-Up action, so nothing special (2/5).
Marvel Fanfare #3 ~ A short back-up story featuring Hawkeye and El Águila from the pages of Marvel Fanfare. The stuff appearing in this anthology title was more often than not some inventory stories that were hanging around in case they needed to fill-in an issue from another title, so the quality of stories appearing in this title were all over the place. This one is decent (3/5).
Avengers #223 ~ Another spotlight issue for Hawkeye, and this time the new Ant-Man is along for the ride. Our favorite bowman has also rejoined the Avengers by this point, so this is just a sidegig written by David Michelinie and drawn by Greg LaRocque. Overall a fun story, but nothing overly surprising (3/5).
Marvel Super Action #1 ~ This one doesn’t even feature Hawkeye at all. But it does feature his soon-to-be wife, Bobbi Chase, in her first starring role as Huntress. It was featured in a black-&-white magazine one-shot that Marvel had published in 1976, although the character had appeared earlier in a supporting role for Ka-Zar as a SHIELD agent and scientist. She’d always felt like no one could decide what to do with her and this story is much the same. Basically an attempt to make a female James-Bond style character. It sort of works, but she wouldn’t return until four years later as Mockingbird in, unsurprisingly, the very next story in this collection (3/5).
Marvel Team-Up #95 ~ Again, this one doesn’t feature Hawkeye, but it does feature Bobbi Chase again, and this time we’re given her very first appearance as … Mockingbird. Oh, and someone named Spider-Man is along for the ride. Very entertaining and while it does suffer from all the team-up clichés everywhere, it’s still an enormously fun issue (3/5).
Hawkeye (1983) #1-4 ~ And now … the main event. Even though Hawkeye first appeared in September 1963, it took 19 years for him to get his own solo series. And even then he was affectively having to share it with Mockingbird, although she wasn’t getting any masthead billing. This was a good series, I enjoyed it when it was coming out, although reading it again now, I’m realizing that I don’t think I even read it a second time. Odd that. But there’s a lot that happens in this series: Hawkeye leaves his employment at CTE and that company is revealed to be corrupt, he gets a spiffy new costume, Hawkeye meets Mockingbird and their tremulous relationship is ignited, first appearances for the Silencer, Oddball, Bombshell and Hawkeye’s sky-sled, the injury that will lead to his ever increasing hearing problems (which has even made it into the movie version of Hawkeye). Good story by Mark Gruenwald and art by Brett Breeding and Danny Bulanadi. This was an entertaining win for Marvel’s fledgling mini-series trials (3/5).
Captain America #317 ~ Oddball and Bombshell return, but they’re not alone. The rest of the Death-throws show up as well. Ringleader, Knickknack & Tenpin are here to trouble Hawkeye something fierce, but Hawkeye’s got some help as well: Captain America and, of course, Mockingbird is along for the ride. This little tale, also from Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Neary and Dennis Janke, is almost a perfect epilogue to the Hawkeye mini-series, the only fault is that as it’s published in Cap’s comic book, he’s the focus and not Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Well, I suppose we can’t get everything, can we (4/5)?
Marvel Fanfare #39 ~ And then we get to the weird stuff. Mysticism. Magical Realism. Metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. While it’s a nice twist from Hawkeye’s usual solo adventures, it is definitely an oddity. But J.M. DeMatteis, a personal favorite of mine, does know how to make the metaphysical work, and the art combination of Joe Staton and Kim DeMulder is not a synergy I’d have expected, but they pull it off quite well. I’m also a sucker for stories about crows and cats (even if the cat is depicted as the villain here), so there’s that as well (4/5).
So this volume is not as uneven as pretty any such volume could be, but still not completely consistent either. There are also some wonderful bonus pages of pin-ups and interviews to round off the collection. A nice package, that is entertaining and will keep your attention.
Tales of Suspense #57, 60, 64 ~ These three stories give us Clint Barton’s backstory, origin and his early missteps on the way to become a hero. But it also illustrates a weakness of Lee as an author. While these stories were only printed a few months apart, they illustrate Lee’s reliance on his artistic collaborators to give him context for character motivation and backstory. These stories show first how the Black Widow was using Hawkeye and manipulating him, then how she’s smitten with him, and how she’s first a dedicated agent of the communist powers, then perceived as a wanted traitor. All of which occurs without explanation or elaboration. Sure most of these changes are occurring off-panel (so to speak), but it still makes for some sloppy narrative as Lee seems to often forget the differences between what he knows, what the readers know and what the characters themselves would know. Clint seems fine with heading off with the Black Widow, unknowing of her status as a spy and saboteur, then he seems troubled by her past, but not so much that he’d turn her over to US authorities. Clearly what was happening is that the creators were having second thoughts about the roles for Hawkeye and the Black Widow and the character’s motivations and personalities were evolving as these early appearances occurred. But from an after-the-fact and meta perspective it’s all very forced and inexplicable. Still these are fun and nostalgic stories (3/5).
Avengers #16 ~ While this wasn’t the first change in the Avengers roster, it was certainly the BIGGEST shake-up to that time. Gone were the founding members Thor, Iron Man, GiAnt-Man and the Wasp (with the Hulk having already left a year previously), leaving the first new recruit to the team, Captain America, in charge of a reformed criminal, Hawkeye, and a pair of former mutant terrorists, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. This story itself is really just that of the transition, we don’t get anything of the dynamics of Cap’s Kooky Quartet (as they would affectionately come to be known) that will be filling the pages of this comic for the next year. But it’s a fun read and has enormous historical significance in the lives of the characters. And it’s drawn by the King, Jack Kirby (4/5).
Avengers #63-65 ~ This trilogy of issues from Lee’s handpicked successor, Roy Thomas and spectacularly illustrated by the one-and-only gentleman Gene Colan, features a wild ride in the life of Clint Barton. First off Hawkeye has inexplicably decided he’s not good enough as the world’s finest archer (say what?), so he takes on a new identity: Goliath. He becomes the third Avenger to use the growth serum developed by Hank Pym (AKA Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, etc.) and yes, this seems as sudden and strange a switch as it sounds. In the next two issues we get a lot of back story on the Avenging Archer that (only slightly) contradicts what had been previous related in such early issues as Avengers #19-20 (these retroactive continuity changes and additions, are likely why those classic tales are not included in this volume), as the background is retold and expanded upon in the issues that are included. Therefor we get the additional inclusion of Barton’s brother, Barney, to the history between Hawkeye and the Swordsman. Even though the animosity from the villainous Egghead would be more accurately included in a volume focusing on Pym. Nevertheless, these issues featuring Colan’s unique signature layout style is well suited to this story and it’s a welcome inclusion (4/5).
Marvel Team-Up #22 ~ Spider-Man and Hawkeye meet, for the first time, except it isn’t. They meet very briefly in Fantastic Four Annual #3, but retroactively speaking they first met in the pages of The Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17, which would have taken place during Hawkeye’s appearances in Tales of Suspense #57, 60, 64. In any case, this is an odd little tale that really only works within the contrived format of a superhero team-up. But its inclusion in this collection illustrates how much we’ve now missed from Hawkeye’s life. Since the last story included here, Clint has abandoned the Goliath persona, returned to his archer roots in a new costume, then returned to his original costume, quit the Avengers, joined the Defenders, taken part in the Avengers/Defenders War, and then left the Defenders. But let’s just forget all we’ve missed and press onward. Nothing particular special about this Team-Up, written and drawn by Len Wein and Sal Buscema, with Spider-Man (3/5).
Marvel Tales #100 ~ While this series was used primarily as a Spider-Man reprint book for many years, there were occasions when a little oddity would find its way into the title. #100 had such a gem and featured Hawkeye and the time traveling western hero, the Two-Gun Kid. Sigh. Yes we’ve missed a ton of Hawkeye action again, all I can say say is check out The Avengers: Celestial Madonna for the explaination on how this unconventional pairing came to be. This short tale is so convoluted and inexplicably contrived as to be absurd. And the less said about it, the better. But for completist fans of Hawkeye, it’s a kind of necessary footnote. To be honest, I wished Marvel had offered a bit more of this bromance than the tidbits we got here, from the pages of the Avengers and an issue of the Champions (#11 if you’re interested, see Champions Classic: The Complete Collection). Generally, this is just an absurd story and makes little to no sense and doesn’t really do anything for the two heroes or the villain (2/5).
Avengers #189 ~ Steven Grant (no, not Moon Knight, the OTHER Steven Grant, the one that writes comic books) provides the script and the legendary John Byrne handles the art chores in this fun departure from the usual Avengers slugfest. Hawkeye has left the Avengers, yes again, and gets a job as Chief of Security for Stark rival company Cross Technologies. This is a nice quickie that helps illustrate Barton’s strengths while on his own (4/5; I’m adding a star for Byrne’s art, I’m a fan, sue me).
Marvel Team-Up #92 ~ It must be time for another Spider-Man/Hawkeye team-up, and Mr. Fear (actually at least the third Mr. Fear, I think) provides the excuse for their superhero night on the town. Just the usual Team-Up action, so nothing special (2/5).
Marvel Fanfare #3 ~ A short back-up story featuring Hawkeye and El Águila from the pages of Marvel Fanfare. The stuff appearing in this anthology title was more often than not some inventory stories that were hanging around in case they needed to fill-in an issue from another title, so the quality of stories appearing in this title were all over the place. This one is decent (3/5).
Avengers #223 ~ Another spotlight issue for Hawkeye, and this time the new Ant-Man is along for the ride. Our favorite bowman has also rejoined the Avengers by this point, so this is just a sidegig written by David Michelinie and drawn by Greg LaRocque. Overall a fun story, but nothing overly surprising (3/5).
Marvel Super Action #1 ~ This one doesn’t even feature Hawkeye at all. But it does feature his soon-to-be wife, Bobbi Chase, in her first starring role as Huntress. It was featured in a black-&-white magazine one-shot that Marvel had published in 1976, although the character had appeared earlier in a supporting role for Ka-Zar as a SHIELD agent and scientist. She’d always felt like no one could decide what to do with her and this story is much the same. Basically an attempt to make a female James-Bond style character. It sort of works, but she wouldn’t return until four years later as Mockingbird in, unsurprisingly, the very next story in this collection (3/5).
Marvel Team-Up #95 ~ Again, this one doesn’t feature Hawkeye, but it does feature Bobbi Chase again, and this time we’re given her very first appearance as … Mockingbird. Oh, and someone named Spider-Man is along for the ride. Very entertaining and while it does suffer from all the team-up clichés everywhere, it’s still an enormously fun issue (3/5).
Hawkeye (1983) #1-4 ~ And now … the main event. Even though Hawkeye first appeared in September 1963, it took 19 years for him to get his own solo series. And even then he was affectively having to share it with Mockingbird, although she wasn’t getting any masthead billing. This was a good series, I enjoyed it when it was coming out, although reading it again now, I’m realizing that I don’t think I even read it a second time. Odd that. But there’s a lot that happens in this series: Hawkeye leaves his employment at CTE and that company is revealed to be corrupt, he gets a spiffy new costume, Hawkeye meets Mockingbird and their tremulous relationship is ignited, first appearances for the Silencer, Oddball, Bombshell and Hawkeye’s sky-sled, the injury that will lead to his ever increasing hearing problems (which has even made it into the movie version of Hawkeye). Good story by Mark Gruenwald and art by Brett Breeding and Danny Bulanadi. This was an entertaining win for Marvel’s fledgling mini-series trials (3/5).
Captain America #317 ~ Oddball and Bombshell return, but they’re not alone. The rest of the Death-throws show up as well. Ringleader, Knickknack & Tenpin are here to trouble Hawkeye something fierce, but Hawkeye’s got some help as well: Captain America and, of course, Mockingbird is along for the ride. This little tale, also from Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Neary and Dennis Janke, is almost a perfect epilogue to the Hawkeye mini-series, the only fault is that as it’s published in Cap’s comic book, he’s the focus and not Hawkeye and Mockingbird. Well, I suppose we can’t get everything, can we (4/5)?
Marvel Fanfare #39 ~ And then we get to the weird stuff. Mysticism. Magical Realism. Metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. While it’s a nice twist from Hawkeye’s usual solo adventures, it is definitely an oddity. But J.M. DeMatteis, a personal favorite of mine, does know how to make the metaphysical work, and the art combination of Joe Staton and Kim DeMulder is not a synergy I’d have expected, but they pull it off quite well. I’m also a sucker for stories about crows and cats (even if the cat is depicted as the villain here), so there’s that as well (4/5).
So this volume is not as uneven as pretty any such volume could be, but still not completely consistent either. There are also some wonderful bonus pages of pin-ups and interviews to round off the collection. A nice package, that is entertaining and will keep your attention.
June 9, 2023
This gets 4 stars for being a comprehensive historical snapshot of Hawkeye's beginnings and the important events in his life up until the early/mid 80s, though the stories here are more good than not.
September 19, 2025
this collection was a lot of early guest appearances, but I honestly really liked the mini series at the end when Hawkeye finally goes "solo".
January 23, 2022
It was fun to go back and see Hawkeye's origins. Even putting aside those Marvel heroes who are scientific geniuses, Hawkeye is not the sharpest tool in the shed. (Yes, there are some obvious jokes there.) And his judgment in women is not too great, considering the early Black Widow -- Hawkeye: "But I don't really want to betray my country..." (paraphrasing) and others. Then again, I remember that in the 1980s, Captain America was dating Diamondback from the Serpent Society, so there were generally some questionable decisions there.
I had thought that I remembered how Hawkeye became deaf, but then I doubted myself. The early 1980s were a long time ago. It was what I had thought, though. I appreciated confirming that in the mini-series. And it was nice to see that Mockingbird was originally
The mini-series explained a lot to me, actually. The way I've been reading the Marvel Masterworks and assorted other collections of old Avengers comics, and collected volumes of relatively more recent West Coast Avengers comics has explained a lot, too.
Comic book Hawkeye is up near the top human levels of gymnastic and acrobatic abilities, and, of course, accuracy with a weapon, which I knew, but is also up there for strength, too. Factoids are included in the collection. I guess that gets overshadowed by the superhuman strength levels of various of Hawkeye's Avengers teammates and some of the villains they face.
Reading this collection was certainly worth it to me for background on the character, although I think I had read some of the comics at the time.
I had thought that I remembered how Hawkeye became deaf, but then I doubted myself. The early 1980s were a long time ago. It was what I had thought, though. I appreciated confirming that in the mini-series. And it was nice to see that Mockingbird was originally
The mini-series explained a lot to me, actually. The way I've been reading the Marvel Masterworks and assorted other collections of old Avengers comics, and collected volumes of relatively more recent West Coast Avengers comics has explained a lot, too.
Comic book Hawkeye is up near the top human levels of gymnastic and acrobatic abilities, and, of course, accuracy with a weapon, which I knew, but is also up there for strength, too. Factoids are included in the collection. I guess that gets overshadowed by the superhuman strength levels of various of Hawkeye's Avengers teammates and some of the villains they face.
Reading this collection was certainly worth it to me for background on the character, although I think I had read some of the comics at the time.
February 12, 2022
I'm a big Hawkeye fan, when anyone asks me who my favorite avenger is I always say Hawkeye without hesitation so I thought it best to familiarize myself with his origins knowing only a little about Hawkeye and reading only a little bit of the silver age (60's?) stuff. The original run of spider-man was a little dated but the messages were just as relevant today as they were 60+ years ago. Hawkeye doesn't have this same charm and heart, just the dated cheese. Not that that's a bad thing it's just noticeable here, more with Hawkeye than with other characters and I feel like it's because it's Hawkeye specifically. It suffers from the infallible character choices like many of the comics from this decade do (good thing I always carry an extra of whatever specific thing I need etc.) The early offerings/adventures of Clint Barton aka Hawkeye are few and far between but ultimately I am glad this exists and am looking forward to reading more about the character.
August 7, 2025
Cool collection of Hawkeye comics. None really stood out to me as amazing. However, it was still cool to see the creation of Hawkeye, the start of his relationship with Black Widow and Mockingbird, and more stories.
January 30, 2023
I've always had a soft spot for Hawkeye and although I read in other collections at least one third of this book, it was nice to have a linear storyline of Hawkeye. No, all the Avengers that he appeared were not in this volume, but the important stories were 9Like becoming Goliath (II).
The book ends with his involvement with the earth spirit and I don't think there was ever a follow-up of that even though he was told that it would happen (as far as I know).
Good collection, but still missing issues from his bad boy days with Black Widow, but most everything is here through the 80s.
I always recommend reading Hawkeye stories. He is a brat, but a charming brat.
The book ends with his involvement with the earth spirit and I don't think there was ever a follow-up of that even though he was told that it would happen (as far as I know).
Good collection, but still missing issues from his bad boy days with Black Widow, but most everything is here through the 80s.
I always recommend reading Hawkeye stories. He is a brat, but a charming brat.
May 16, 2022
The early appearances of my favourite hero! Doesn't cover every appearance, just the most important ones. It is fascinating to see the way the art and script of comics changed over a twenty year period. Not the least of which is the way Hawkeye's costume changes over the years.
The obvious (and unsurprising) best story is the collection of Hawkeye's first limited series.
The obvious (and unsurprising) best story is the collection of Hawkeye's first limited series.
March 14, 2024
A decent selection of Hawkeye's earliest adventures, including his first outings in Iron Man, some Hawkeye-centric Avengers issues, his first miniseries, and a handful of Mockingbird appearances.
The stories and art vary quite a lot in quality, but overall it's definitely worth checking out for fans of the character.
The stories and art vary quite a lot in quality, but overall it's definitely worth checking out for fans of the character.
March 26, 2025
If you ever wondered about Hawkeye's history, this is probably the book to get. It took 19 years for Hawkeye to get his own comic (which is included here). He bounced around in all kinds of weird, hard to find comics along with Iron Man and the Avengers. His first appearances as a villain in Iron Man are here being spurred along by a Black Widow still working for the Russians. Then we get when he joins the Avengers and when he becomes Goliath for awhile. Two comics in the middle don't even have Hawkeye in them, but his future wife Mockingbird. You get to see her as a SHIELD agent before becoming Mockingbird. The two finally meet in the Hawkeye miniseries which is surprisingly good with the rare pencils by Mark Gruenwald. I can't recall him drawing anything else even though he wrote a ton for Marvel. You also see how Hawkeye loses some of his hearing which plagues him a lot in his series in the 2000s.
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