Eventually it comes out that Gaffney is actually Shining Hawk whose aging process was frozen early in life when he was struck by lightning .
Hawk is a Neanderthal Man over 50,000 years old .
Eventually it comes out that Gaffney is actually Shining Hawk , a Neanderthal Man over 50,000 years old , whose aging process was frozen early in life when he was struck by lightning .