Road Warrior Hawk

Road Warrior Hawk is a comics adaptation of the real-world professional wrestler, one half of the legendary Legion of Doom tag team. He appears as a fictionalized version of himself, crossing over into superhero and wrestling-themed comic narratives.

Bursting onto the page in 1989 courtesy of Carl Potts and a young Jim Lee in The Punisher War Journal #12, Road Warrior Hawk is one of comics' most gloriously unexpected crossover figures — a real-world wrestling legend translated into four-color adventure. Spanning an impressive 26 years of publication, he turns up most frequently in World Wrestling Federation Battlemania, WWE Superstars, and even Action Comics, sharing panels with an extraordinary mix of squared-circle icons like Road Warrior Animal, Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and Jake "The Snake" Roberts — as well as, remarkably, Superman himself. For collectors who love the wild, anything-goes spirit of the Copper Age, when pro wrestling and superhero comics briefly collided in the most entertaining ways imaginable, Road Warrior Hawk is an absolute must-know.