(Flash Comics v1 016, 1941)
Have you ever wondered what happened to the ancient Dravidians and their kingdom of Dravidia? No, because they're an extant ethnic group and that would be a bit like wondering about the fate of the Caucasians and their fabled land of Caucasia? Excatly. But nevertheless, here's Hawkman flying into Dravidia, somewhere in Mongolia.
Furthermore, the Dravidian king claims that his people originally came from a now-sunken land called Eden. An intriguing concept - that Eden is truly lost because it sank into the sea. Nothing comes of it though.
The really interesting thing to come out of this adventure is the idea that a prior incarnation of Hawkman might have ruled Dravidia as Keft, known as Icaro, the Redeemer. My experience with Golden Age Hawkman is limited to his JSA appearances, so I don't know if the exploration of his prior incarnations is a running topic or if this is a weird outlier, decades before the idea of Hawkman and Hawkgirl being endlessly reincarnated gained steam.
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