HAWKMAN #23

Cover shows moderate wear consistent with a mid-grade Silver Age book: noticeable spine stress with light color breaking along the spine fold, soft/rounded corners, and general surface wear typical of handling. There is a small crease line visible near the top left edge and some minor edge wear along the borders. The book is in a protective sleeve which slightly obscures fine detail; interior and back cover were not assessed.

Hawkman #23 arrived in the closing months of DC's original 1964–1968 Hawkman title, cover-dated January 1968, as the series wound toward cancellation with issue #27 later that year. The book continues the Silver Age adventures of Katar Hol and Shayera Hol, the Thanagarian police officers stationed on Earth as Hawkman and Hawkgirl, a run largely shepherded by writer Gardner Fox with art handled across the series by Murphy Anderson and other DC house artists. No first appearance, death, or origin story is associated with this particular issue, and it is not cited in standard price guides as a cover or story landmark.

Market data for #23 shows a typical late-Silver-Age curve: certified copies trade modestly through the mid grades, with fair market value holding in the $40-$70 range from 6.5 through 9.0, before climbing sharply at the top of the census, where 9.4 through 9.8 copies command $190 to $290. That inflection reflects the usual scarcity premium for high-grade Silver Age comics rather than any story-driven demand, since census population thins out only slightly at the top while raw supply in lower grades appears to be genuinely scarce rather than sought after.

This issue functions as a run-filler for Hawkman and Silver Age DC completists rather than a stand-alone target, and it will rarely draw independent bidding outside of series sets. Lower and mid-grade raw copies trade in single-digit to low-double-digit dollar amounts and see infrequent turnover, while the real value concentration sits in high-grade certified copies, where the thin 9.6-9.8 population supports meaningfully higher prices for buyers assembling a complete graded run of the title.