Observant moviegoers noticed Hawkeye popped up briefly in “Thor.” The archer in the movie taking aim at the demigod was Waverly’s own Clint Barton.

“You better call it (Agent) Coulson because I’m starting to root for this guy,” Hawkeye says while watching Thor wreak havoc on a government facility.

Hawkeye was created by none other than Stan Lee and a colleague, the late Don Heck. Heck was also on the team that made Iron Man and is credited with giving Tony Stark his dashing good looks, which by the way were based on a real person, actor Errol Flynn.

Hawkeye made his first appearance in print in Marvel’s “Tales of Suspense.” The edition was published in September 1964.

Why Hawkeye wound up as a citizen of Waverly, Iowa, is a mystery to local fans — and to Tom Brevoort, executive editor and senior vice president of Marvel Publishing.

Lee and Heck created Hawkeye in the early 1960s when Westerns were big in popular culture. According to Brevoort, though, the character did not get a biography until the 1980s when a former executive editor, the late Mark Gruenwald, compiled “The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.”