Hawk and Dove #21

Feb 1991 · DC · 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP

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“Girls' Night Out”

★ 1st appearance — Bloody Mary

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Hawk and Dove #21 earns its place in DC history as the first appearance of Malice Vundabar, Bloody Mary, Speed Queen, and Chessure — four New Gods characters who went on to populate the broader Fourth World corner of the DC Universe long after this series ended. By importing Apokolips-level muscle into a relatively street-level Washington, D.C. title, writer Karl Kesel demonstrated that the Hawk and Dove ongoing could operate as a genuine piece of the larger DCU tapestry rather than an isolated corner book. The newly introduced Female Furies debuted in a self-contained 'Girls' Night Out' tale that proved creatively generative: several of the characters Kesel and penciler Steve Erwin brought to life here resurfaced in Superboy, Guardians of Metropolis, and assorted Teen Titans and Fourth World titles in the years that followed.

writer Barbara Kesel · writer Karl Kesel · artist Steve Erwin · inker Scott Hanna · colorist Glenn Whitmore · letterer Bob Pinaha · cover Steve Erwin, Karl Kesel

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History

By late 1990, the Hawk and Dove Volume 3 ongoing — co-written by Karl and Barbara Kesel and launched in June 1989 off the momentum of a sold-out Rob Liefeld-drawn miniseries — was moving through a transitional stretch before its concluding story arc. Issue #21 was penciled by Steve Erwin, who at the time was simultaneously illustrating Checkmate!, Deathstroke: The Terminator, and New Gods, all edited by Jonathan Peterson; one contemporary observer noted that Erwin may have taken the assignment partly as a collegial favor to Peterson, who was also editing Hawk and Dove. Scott Hanna inked, Glenn Whitmore colored, and Bob Pinaha lettered, with Peterson serving as editor — the same core production crew that handled adjacent issues in the run.

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Cover-dated February 1991 (published December 1990), titled 'Girls' Night Out' — Hawk and Dove (Vol. 3) #21.
First appearances of Malice Vundabar, Bloody Mary, Speed Queen, and Chessure, all introduced as members of a new wave of Apokolips's Female Furies.
Written by Karl Kesel; penciled by Steve Erwin; inked by Scott Hanna; edited by Jonathan Peterson.
Gilotina — an existing Female Fury predating this issue — also appears as part of the Fury strike force.
The new Furies were co-created by the Kesels and Steve Erwin; most of them subsequently appeared in Karl Kesel's own Superboy (Vol. 4) and Guardians of Metropolis, as well as various Teen Titans and Fourth World titles.
Malice Vundabar is niece to Virman Vundabar and commands a savage disembodied creature called Chessure; Speed Queen possesses super-speed, paralleling Flash-family power sets.
The issue is part of Hawk and Dove Volume 3, which ran 28 issues (1989–1991) and concluded with Dawn Granger's death and Hank Hall's transformation into the villain Monarch.
Granny Goodness is referenced but does not physically appear — mentioned only, keeping the story's scope focused on the rogue Furies' unauthorized killing spree on Earth.