“…the original ‘Hawkgirl’, aka ‘Shiera Sanders Hall’, was created by writer Gardner Fox and illustrator Dennis Neville…
“…debuting in ‘Flash Comics’ (1940), as the reincarnation of the Egyptian princess ‘Chay-Ara’.
“As the wife of ‘Carter Hall’, also known as ‘Hawkman’. Hawkgirl owes her powers to a belt of ‘Nth’ metal, a substance native to the planet ‘Thanagar’.
“The metal is psycho-reactive, responding to its bearer's thoughts and in its base form has a number of electromagnetic/gravitational properties.
“To the ‘Hawks’, it grants the power of flight, superhuman strength, super-acute vision, and an enhanced healing/regeneration ability…”
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