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The cover bills this as Darkhawk’s origin story, but it starts with a big ugly monster trying to steal his amulet.
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It happens at a graveyard, which gets the attention of Ghost Rider because he has nothing better to do.
Yodda yodda yodda. More magical alien amulets. An evil amulet wearer named (ahem) Evilhawk.
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Evilhawk appears to vaporize Darkhawk at the end of #24.
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No such luck. Darkhawk surviving is the second-biggest crisis to happen at the World Trade Center.
Basically all we learn origin-wise is that Darkhawk found an alien amulet. Which we already knew. And the Ghost Rider appearance is completely gratuitous. I mean, there’s an expanded mythology about the aliens, but they all look like cut-rate Spaceknights and it’s really hard to care about all this. It’s very generic. Even in the graveyard scene, the tombstones are blank. In a good comic, there would have been names of comic book creators on the stones.