Nighthawk & Cinnamon

Hannibal Hawkes was a traveling repairman in the American West who wore a disguise to become the masked gunfighter called, “Nighthawk.”

Out of the night he comes like his namesake wherever crime and injustice threaten! His guns are deadly in defense of the right – but deadlier still are his sharp wits that can make a sharp weapon of the most innocent object.

Western Comics #5 (Sept./Oct. 1948

Cinnamon

When Kate Manser was a child, bank robbers shot and killed her father, a sheriff in Wyoming. Placed into an orphanage, she left at the age of 18 to track down each man responsible for her father’s death.

She had been only a child that hot, hot evening so very long ago. Had been defenseless… then… but times change and people change right along with them, only the hate remains constant… 

Weird Western Tales #48 (Oct. 1976)

Nighthawk met Cinnamon years later in St. Roch, Louisiana, when he aided her in a shootout with the last surviving killer of her father.

Hawkman (vol. 4) #7

Nighthawk and Cinnamon were reincarnations of Prince Khufu and Chay-Ara, so expectedly their relationship became romantic… but was also short-lived…

N’then the last adventure came. You and your gal saving innocents. ‘For a bullet from high and afar took your life. The girl avenged you, but died doin’ it.


Hawkman (vol.4) #7
Nov. 2022 (Sept. 5, 2002)
$2.50

“Fine Day for a Hangin’”
22 pages

Writer: James Robinson
Penciller: Rags Morales
Inker: Timothy Truman
Editor: Peter J. Tomasi

Weird Western Tales #48
Sept./Oct. 1978 (June 15, 1978)
$0.50

“Cinnamon”
8 pages

Writer: Roger McKenzie
Penciller: Jack Abel
Inker: Daniel Bulanadi
Editor: Allen Milgrom

Western Comics #5
Sept./Oct. 1948 (July 30, 1948)
$0.10

“The Lair of the Timberwolf”
8 pages

Writer: Joe Millard
Artist: Charles Paris
Editor: Jack Schiff