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As you learned today, Nighthawk takes his name from a fandom hoax. At least, that's the story Roy Thomas tells:

Richard Kyle had once pulled a fandom hoax by making fanzine-publishers Don and Maggie Thompson print a piece about an old pulp magazine or some such thing called NIGHTHAWK... obviously supposed to be a precursor of Batman. So as a joke, I took that name [...] and made it the name of the Batman homage in the Squadron.

But something seems to be missing.

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