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Graham Nolan
Starman (1988) #6 -- an Invasion tie-in!
At the time this was written and drawn, this would have been Katar and Shayera Hol. However, after the publication of Hawkworld, it would have been retconned that these Hawks would have to have been Sharon Parker and Fel Andar. Also, I believe the timeline of the panel would have it later retconned, as Fel Andar likely would have killed Sharon by this point.
What is your favorite post Crisis retcon? (explanations after poll)
Fully Atlantean Aquaman
Titanseed Donna Troy
Fel Andar Hawkman
Literal-Fury-powered Lyta Trevor/Helena Kosmatos
Byrne's Krypton
Atlantean Powergirl
Newbie Wonder Woman/George Perez's Wonder Woman and Themyscira
an unlisted retcon (leave in tags)
i hate every single retcon ever
Fully Atlantean Aquaman: Pre COIE, Aquaman is as you probably know him from the movies: Born of Atlanna and lighthouse keeper Tom Curry. Post COIE, they introduce Aquaman as a character who was abandoned at birth for being blond. He was raised by dolphins before meeting Arthur Curry who taught him how to speak and do human stuff. Since new 52, this has been de-canonized and he is now movie-origin-aquaman again.
Titanseed Donna Troy: pre COIE, Wonder Girl was initially flashback Wonder Woman, then became a new character when the writer of the first Teen Titans comic didn't read Wonder Woman comics (and it showed). Eventually she was a girl Wonder Woman rescued from a fire who got powers from the other Amazons. Post COIE, Donna Troy has amnesia and does not know where she is from but it is revealed she is one of twelve children who were rescued by Titans of Myth, who gave them part of their powers and raised them on New Cronos in space, then took their memories away and jettisoned them to their original planets.
Fel Andar Hawkman: Pre COIE, silver age hawkman (the thanagarian) was a space cop from Thanagar coming to earth to capture Byth and also learn about police techniques. post COIE, katar was doing something else so he could not have taken place in silver age justice league adventures, so this was retconned to be Fel Andar, a thanagarian double agent who came to earth claiming he was Carter Hall (golden age hawkman)'s son. He betrays the JL during Invasion and also I think brainwashed his hawkgirl?
Literal-Fury powered Lyta Trevor and Helena Kosmatos: Pre COIE, Lyta was the daughter of Earth 2 Wonder woman and Steve Trevor (and helena did not exist). She had Amazon powers. Post COIE, Lyta gets her powers from the greek Furies, though she does not know that at first. They reveal that her biological mother (Helena Kosmatos) vowed revenge after she believed her nazi collaborator brother caused her mother's death, and she channeled Tisiphone. Helena at least can be fully taken over by Tisiphone, during which she is much more powerful, and also angry and murderous.
Byrne's Krypton: I was going to just say "Superman being literally the last son of Krypton" (no surviving Kryptonians besides him) but realized Byrne put in sooooooo many retcons. Anyway, he decided krypton was a very emotionless place and they didn't fuck, and superman was grown in a gestation chamber that literally birthed him on earth.
Atlantean Powergirl: In Earth 2, Kara (powergirl) is probably as you know her, she's from krypton but got to earth later. IIRC she was raised by Robots on a space ship but it's been a while since I read Infinity Inc. Post COIE, they have her be Arion's (a powerful mage from Atlantis in the past)... daughter? Grand daughter? Sadly I haven't read the comics that explained her origin.
Newbie Wonder Woman/George Perez's Wonder Woman and Themyscira: The main reason Donna's origin had to be changed was because Wonder Woman was completely relaunched - she was no longer around since Batman and Superman were, but came onto the scene as a superhero after Donna Troy as Wonder Girl was on Teen Titans. Perez also re-introduces Amazon lore, including the name Themyscira for paradise island.
Justice League International #19 (1988) by Kevin Maguire, J.M. DeMatteis & Keith Giffen
realizing that fel andar & katar hol both have human mothers & thanagarian fathers where said fathers took their sons away from their mothers because human/thanagarian couples aren't accepted on thanagar. damn.
It’s kinda sad that the only version of Hawkman I actually liked was the one who got retconned to not actually be Hawkman
Animal Man
Volume: 1 #6
Birds of Prey
Writers: Grant Morrison
Pencils: Chaz Truog
Inks: Doug Hazlewood
Covers: Brian Bolland
Featuring: Animal Man (Bernhard Baker), Roger Denning, Hawkman (Fel Andar), Thanagarians
DC
Hawkman, whenever people bring up something dickish he did in the past: there's this guy called fel andar maybe you've heard of him --