Having stolen back his dimensiometer device (which Hawkman and Hawkgirl previously believed to have been broken) Carl Sands returns as the Shadow Thief. This time he is pulling off heists for his personal gain, having immobilized Thar Dan (the Xarapion who gave him the dimensiometer to begin with) and working out of the aliens lab so that he can continue to steal for his own personal gain. Unafraid of the fact that his device threatens to make the Earth undergo an Ice Age, Sands intends to keep on stealing from Earth, and then escape back to Xarapion when the ice age hits. Naturally, his thefts garner the attention of Hawkman and Hawkgirl who try to stop him, and fail due to Shadow Thief's immaterial shadow form committing the robberies. Believing that somehow Hawkman and Hawkgirl may find