Friday Night Fights: Hands Of Stone - Round 5: Playground Brawl!

Tonight's round of Friday Night Fights: Hands Of Stone features a good old-fashioned playground brawl with some unconventional elements, courtesy of a Hawkman backup story in Detective Comics#446 titled "The Mystery Of The Flyaway Car!", written by the late E. Nelson Bridwell and illustrated by Rich Buckler and Klaus Janson.


Synopsis: A thief steals a mysterious high-tech gadget from an unnamed laboratory. For reasons that are never explained, he ends up stashing the device in Carter (Hawkman) Hall's car. The device somehow triggers his Nth metal anti-gravity belt, so when Carter drives to work with said anti-grav belt in tow, the car starts rising into the air. Carter figures things out and uses the belt to set the car down in a local playground, with the thief in hot pursuit. The thief manages to snag the mystery device from the car and...

The thief still hasn't figured out the whole story, but since he's holding a high-tech gadget and Hawkman is bearing down on him, he decides to go for broke....

...causing Hawkman's flying belt to go crazy!

With no other options, our Winged Wonder decides to utilize the playground equipment, beginning with the swing set...

...and ending with the slide!

(Our fight music for tonight is a video of another playground fight set to music by The Black Keys.)

You know who else won all his playground fights? Spacebooger.