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04-14-2011, 07:34 PM
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Heh. Remember the old letters pages in the comics? It seemed like every month there'd be a letter from a kid asking which guy was Hawk and which guy was Duke (obviously, you wouldn't confuse one for the other if they were being referred to by name or if they were in the same panel, but by themselves, and with Hawk occasionally drawn wearing olive drab BDUs, it could get a little confusing).
I don't really know who was at fault there, whether the initial character designs by Rudat just seemed too similar (both were blonde, square-jawed, Caucasian types) or penciler Mike Vosburg (who drew most of the Duke-centric early issues) just didn't draw them differently enough.
And then there was that weird stretch in the comics when Hawk was already being drawn with his v2 outfit (the bomber jacket/Patton look), but the colorists were still coloring his hair blonde (as in the original toy), instead of the "new" brown-haired 1986 version. I wonder if anybody back in the day ever tried to get a No-Prize by explaining the hair colour change?
Hawk will always be blond for me. I like how he was drawn in Special Missions #0 in issue 50.
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One thing I've always been curious about, but has never been addressed AFAIK by anyone working with Hasbro or Sunbow at the time, was why it was decided to replace Hawk with the glasses-wearing
"Colonel Sharpe"
as the commander of the Joe team in the early cartoons. Hawk didn't even appear in the cartoon until the 2nd season (1986). Were they concerned that kids wouldn't be able to tell Duke and the original Hawk design apart?
He also had a similar design to Short-Fuze.
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