(Flash Comics v1 021, 1941)
This one's got a lot of setup. First, Hawkman sees a spaceship crash, as you do. Venturing inside, he finds a deceased Neptunian couple, their egg son and a Rosetta Stone of a ship's log. He makes off with the egg and the journal and just leaves the ship and its former crew to rot.
Next night is the Scientist Society Ball, where monocled botanist and creep Noel Ratchford makes a play for Shiera Sanders and is rebuffed. There's an egg-based sequence of events as follows:
-Noel is germinating seeds in eggs
-Carter "Hawkman" Hall thinks this is dumb
-Shiera stumbles across the boy-egg and assumes that Carter is also experimenting with eggs. She steals the egg as a joke and tells Noel about it
-Noel decides to steal the egg and take credit for Carters egg-based research. He ends up hatching out the boy Egon.
Thanks to Neptunian genetics, Egon hatches into a rapidly-growing boy with cool eye-beams and full powers of speech. Noel then hits upon the idea to raise him up to a) hate him and b) believe that his name is Carter Hall, so that he will go out and do evil giant stuff and blame it on Carter, thus presumably sullying his good name enough for Shiera to reject him? it's a flimsy plan at best, but when all you have is a giant you look for rampage-based solutions to your problems.
Everything kind of goes according to plan, except that Carter Hall is of course Hawkman, and that he has the journal and knows all of the Neptunians' weak points and kills Egon and brings Noel to justice. But other than that stuff, A-OK.
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