The well-intentioned plague doctor is attacked and restrained, to be put to the torch by a volatile mob in an act of misguided retribution. Carlo Salón encounters the citizens of Saville in dire hardship and their adverse reaction to his forbidding presence turns from fear and distrust to irrational violence. Charged with a census of the living and the dead, and to provide aid when possible, Dr. Venditti’s “ Miasma of Fear” is a dark chapter in the winged warrior’s multiplicity of lives that demonstrates the purposefulness of true heroism and the contrary, and terrifying, aspects of humanity that manifest in its darkest hours. Related: Hawkman's Best Friend is Saving Him From The Inside (Literally) Conceived to protect against malady not to create anxiety and mistrust, the disconcerting mask becomes a symbol of the plague itself and the hero finds himself perceived, paradoxically, as the illness to be cured. Salón hopes to save, and the traumatic circumstances of the plague create fear and desperation in the huddled, wary masses. The plague mask worn by the doctor is a disturbing one, for both the reader and for the people Dr. Draped in black and concealed beneath a hawk-like mask of alarming proportion, the shadowy plague doctor makes his grim rounds, recording the dead and examining what remains of the living. Carlo Salón, a plague doctor fighting for life in an age of darkness and decay. Caught in an allegorical world of 17th-century Spain, one of the countless past-lives of Hawkman, Carter Hall becomes Dr. Infected by the Batman Who Laughs and possessed by the evil Sky Tyrant-persona, Carter Hall finds himself “ in the space between our dimension and what lies beyond,” a victim of the Tyrant’s plot to bring death to the universe.