tomahawk

CREATOR

Name: DC (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1934 by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (1890-1968) as National Allied Publications, but the name changed in 1937 to Detective Comics (later shortened to DC). Stopped in 2011.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under DC in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation's logo changed several times over the years. The selected one ran from 1976 to 2005.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1950*. Stopped in 1972 after 140 issues (for the last 10 issues the series was retitled to Son of Tomahawk (sometimes mentioned as Hawk, Son of Tomahawk)).

The title character's real name is Tom Hawk. He is a Western frontiersman, who has also served under George Washington in the many wars before the founding of the United States. Hawk is an accomplished horseman and hand-to-hand fighter, which has earned him his nickname from the Iroquois Indians. On his numerous adventures he is mostly accompanied by young Dan Hunter.

* The character was first published in 1947 in Star Spangled Comics.