synopsis:
Hawkman and Hawkgirl return to their home planet of Thanagar where they meet with police chief Andar Pul while a group known as the Dragonfly Raiders begin pulling off a series of daring robberies elsewhere. The Hawks engage the Dragonfly Raiders and manage to capture a few of their pilots. They discover that the riders are little more than android robots. They also discover that their old foe Byth Rok has recently escaped from prison. and there is a connection between Byth and the Dragonfly Raiders. Hawkman decides to use a valuable Gem Tree in an effort to bait Byth into a trap. But Byth uses a Trance-Ray to distract the Hawks so that he can steal the stones from the Gem Tree. Hawkman and Hawkgirl later track Byth and his cronies to a cave near the Sea of Scythia. All of Byth's fellow thrill-thieves have taken Krotan's Changeling Pill and now possess the ability to shape-shift into any known animal. Hawkgirl takes out two of his confederates while Hawkman engages Byth directly and defeated him.