Hawkeye (Clint Barton)

Hawkeye
Hawkeye
	Variant cover art of All-New Hawkeye #1 (November 2015); Art by Mike Grell
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	As Hawkeye:; Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964); As Goliath:; Avengers #63 (April 1969); As Golden Archer:; Captain America #179 (November 1974); As Ronin:; New Avengers #27 (April 2007);
Created by	Stan Lee (writer); Don Heck (artist)
In-story information
Full name	Clinton Francis Barton
Species	Human
Place of origin	Waverly, Iowa
Team affiliations	Avengers; Avengers Academy; Defenders; Great Lakes Avengers; New Avengers; Secret Avengers; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Thunderbolts; West Coast Avengers; Wild Pack; World Counter-terrorism Agency;
Partnerships	Mockingbird (ex-wife); Kate Bishop; Black Widow;
Notable aliases	Hawkeye. Golden Archer, Goliath, Ronin
Abilities	Master archer and marksman; Expert martial artist, hand-to-hand combatant, and acrobat; Skilled strategist and tactician; Utilizes high-tech equipment, armor, compound bow, and various types of specialty arrows;
Format
Hawkeye
Publication information
Format	Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	Vol. 1:; September 1983 – December 1983; Vol. 2:; January 1994 – April 1994; Vol. 3:; December 2003–August 2004; Vol. 4:; August 2012–July 2015;
No. of issues	4 (Vol. 1); 4 (Vol. 2); 8 (Vol. 3); 22 (Vol. 4);
Main character(s)	Clint Barton/Hawkeye; Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird
Creative team
Written by	Vol. 1:; Mark Gruenwald; Vol. 2:; Chuck Dixon; Vol. 3:; Fabian Nicieza; Vol. 4:; Matt Fraction; Vol. 5; Jeff Lemire;
Artists	Vol. 1:; Mark Gruenwald; Vol. 2:; Scott Kolins; Vol. 3:; Stefano Raffaele; Joe Bennett; Vol. 4:; David Aja; Vol. 5; Ramon Perez;

Hawkeye (Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck, the character debuted as a supervillain in Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964) before joining the Avengers as a superhero in The Avengers #16 (May 1965). A skilled marksman and acrobat without superhuman powers, he is typically portrayed as an expert archer whose tactical skill and abrasive personality have made him a long-standing member of multiple Avengers lineups.

Over his publication history he co-founded the West Coast Avengers, was married to Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird, adopted the Ronin identity during a darker mid-2000s period, and later served as a mentor to successor archer Kate Bishop. A major modern reappraisal of the character came in the fourth volume of Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja, which emphasized urban, everyman storytelling and explored Clint’s vulnerability (including partial hearing loss) and ethics of everyday heroism.

Jeremy Renner plays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), the animated series What If...? (2021), and the television miniseries Hawkeye (2021).