Sandy the Golden Boy

Personal information
Real Name: Sandy Hawkins
Residence: New York City
Occupation: Student, adventurer,
First Appearance (Golden Age): Adventure Comics #69 (December 1941)
First Appearance (Post-Golden Age): Justice League of America #113 (October 1974)
Character History
As part of his battle against crime, the Golden Age Sandman had developed an arsenal of chemical weapons, ranging from sedatives to noxious gases. In 1945, he developed a prototype weapon based on silicon, the exact nature of which is unknown. In the first activated test of the weapon, it exploded, exposing Sandy Hawkins to an unknown kind of radiation. Within moments, Sandy was altered into a giant crystalloid monster, raging and angry. The creature that was Sandy was unsteady, however, and when in collapsed momentarily after forming, Wes Dodds sedated it. For decades thereafter, Sandy Hawkins was kept in a special chamber in an unconscious state as Dodd's feared unleashing the unknown creature on the world (revealed in Justice League of America #113).
Years later, Sandy was taken prisoner by a Dr. Arnold Price, a physician/scientist who had been studying his powers and structure. Price, now known as the Shatterer, planned to harness the geo-sensitive powers of Sandy's body to unleash rather than absorb seismic energy. By initating a series of eartquakes, the Shatterer could then blackmail the city and avenge himself on his colleagues. The Shatterer's plans were derailed by the return of the newly active Golden Age Sandman. Stunning the villain, the Sandman freed his former partner and rigged a quick experiment. Reasoning that, if a silicon explosion had turned him silicon, a organic explosion would turned him back, Dodds' set off an explosion of organic reagents. When the dust cleared, Sandy Hawkins emerged, seemingly normal. Regaining his senses, the Shatterer attacked but a tremor caused by Sand's "residual" seismic energy opened the earth beneath the villain and consumed him (DC Comics Presents #47).
At that point, Sandy set off with Sandman to find his place in the world. What that became on Earth-Two has never been revealed.
Powers and Abilities
Weaknesses and Limitations

Multiversity

Near the turn of the millenium, Dian Belmont died of unrevealed causes and Wesley Dodds was drawn into a scheme of Mordru, a sorcerer and agent of the Lord of Chaos. Realizing he cannot escape Mordru, Dodds commits suicide by throwing himself into a ravine and with his death, the semi-prophetic dreams that plagued him throughout his life pass to Hawkins. Hawkins, now known as Sand, joins a new iteration of the Justice Society in bringing Mordru's schemes to an end and becomes the new chairman of the JSA (JSA Vol. 1 #1-4).
From this point, Sand remains a steady member of the Justice Society and periodically it's spin-off team, the JSA All-Stars. He eventually adopts a new uniform, fusing elements of his Sand identity and Wesley Dodd's cloak and fedora and becomes the new Sandman (Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #1). The Old God Gog temporarily removed his nightmarish visions but when it causes him to lose his ability to predict crimes, he relents and the nightmares return (Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #20-21).
The activities of Sand in this timeline after the Flashpoint Event are unknown
Other significant Appearances
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Comments |
Reprints |
Fights Nazis in Greece with Sandman |
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 3 |
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w/ JSA, vs Brain Wave |
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 4 |
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With the JSA, vs. Hector Bauer |
All-Star Comics Archives Vol. 5 |
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Joins the All-Star Squadron |
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With the All-Star Squadron, 1940’s during the Crisis on Infinite Earths |
Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition #1 |
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Flashback |
America vs. the Justice Society TPB |
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DC Comics Presents #42 |
Flashback to the accident that changed him |
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DC Comics Presents #47 |
Cured of Silicon body |
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Accident that turned him into a monstrous form revealed |
Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 3 TPB, Showcase Presents: The Justice League of America #6, Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus #1 |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #238 |
With Sandman and Wonder Woman vs. Kung |
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