About the All-Star Squadron #10 June, 1982.

On January 6, 1942, in San Francisco, before dawn, Hawkman sneaks away from Carter Hall's base, and night-flies around in the Bay Area. He observes as a flight of B-17s flies in from Randall Field Texas, but is unaware that one of these bombers is piloted by his teammate Ted Knight. Ted has already graduated pilot school in record time. Suddenly a large, silent, intensely-bright flying object has arrived, shaped like a very large flying eyeball, and shoots one of the B-17s with a white beam, causing the engines to go dead. Hawkman dives after the plane, racking his brain for a method of rescuing the crew. Ted Knight hands control of his aircraft over to his co-pilot, Ash, and slips back into the fuselage, changes clothes, and uses his Gravity Rod to open and close a hatch, then also goes diving to the rescue. His Gravity Rod adds lift to the falling bomber, enabling the pilots to restart the engine, as apparently the white light effect wears off quickly. Hawkman flies to confront the enemy airship, which responds with an energy wave that pushes him back, and while he's struggling forward against that he sees a live man, elderly, dressed in a metallic suit, get jettisoned from "the Eye." Hawkman catches this guy, who is in very bad condition, near death. Starman catches up to him. They resume pursuing the hostile aircraft, but it's really not fleeing. It shoots them with a new light beam, which neutralizes Hawkman' Ninth-metal belt and shuts down Starman's Gravity Rod. Then the "eye" zooms away, in utter silence. But as soon as it's gone, Ted's and Carter's antigravity devices start working again. In their brief conversation before Starman zooms back to his flying duty station, Starman reveals to Hawkman that the real reason he made pilot even faster than Hawkman could, was because he got the President to fix it up for him. Starman re-boards his bomber, in flight, changes clothes, and flies the plane the rest of the way to Mare Island. Meanwhile Hawkman's elderly passenger has died, and Hawkman gets a good look at him, recognizes him, and forms a theory about the secret behind the "flying eye."